Instrument: larval fish collector

Dataset: 
Fish lengths - juveniles
Instrument: 
larval fish collector
Instrument Short Name: SMURF
Instrument Description:

The Standard Monitoring Unit for the recruitment of Reef Fishes (SMURF) consists of a cylinder of fine mesh plastic grid that contains a folded section of larger mesh plastic grid.

See Ammann, A.J. 2004. SMURFs: standard monitoring units for the recruitment of temperate reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 299:135– 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2003.08.014

PI supplied instrument name: SMURF
Dataset-specific description

SMURFs used in this study were adapted from a design used by Steele et al. (2002). Each SMURF (1.0×0.35 m dia.) was constructed using a 1.2×1.0 m section of green plastic mesh with 2.5 cm grid (Grow Guard™, model #038-2416, Israel) rolled into a cylinder. A haphazardly folded 4.5×1.2 m section of black plastic mesh with 5.0×7.5 cm grid (Conwed Plastics, model #XB 5968-100-SSF, USA) was inserted into the cylinder. The outer mesh of 2.5 cm grid did not restrict movement of settlement size fish into or out of the SMURF, it did however, prevent entry of larger fish.

M.A. Steele, J.C. Malone, A.M. Findlay, M.H. Carr, G.E. Forrester. A simple method for estimating larval supply in reef fishes and a preliminary test of population limitation by larval delivery in the kelp bass, Paralabrax clathratus. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 235 (2002), pp. 195–203