Dataset: Fish Data

Name: Fish data from fish and seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in 2022
Published: 2024-03-14
Keywords: seagrass, fish, artificial reefs, oceans

Cite This Dataset

DOI:10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.922228.1

Spatial Extent: N:26.34648 E:-77.00752 S:26.341 W:-77.01037

Abaco Islands, The Bahamas

Temporal Extent: 2022-07 - 2022-12

Project:

Using novel ecosystem-scale experiments to quantify drivers of reef productivity in a heavily impacted coastal ecosystem (Reef Production Drivers)

Principal Investigator:

Jacob Allgeier (University of Michigan)

Student:

Katrina Munsterman (University of Michigan)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version:

Version Date:

2024-03-14

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Fish data from fish and seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in 2022

Abstract:

Fish data from fish and seagrass surveys on clusters of artificial reefs at the Abaco Islands, Bahamas in May of 2022. Data are presented for site PN, which was constructed in May 2021 at the Bight of Old Robinson, Great Abaco. At the site three clusters of nine reefs were constructed. Each cluster was separated by at least 150 m and were constructed at ~3 m depth.

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Version Date	Archive	Persistent Identifier	Date Assigned
2024-03-14	Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI DLA)	10.26008/1912/bco-dmo.922228.1	2024-04-26

Description

See "Related Datasets" section for access to data and metadata from other datasets from the same surveys.

Methods & Sampling

Fish surveys were conducted using visual counts of all fish on a given artificial reef. Fish size was visually estimated to the nearest cm using total length (TL). All counts were exhaustive and lasted from 1-10 minutes depending on the number of fish. We recorded visual observation of floy tags – this was done opportunistically and when possible the species and color of tag were recorded.

Survey overview:

Fish surveys ~3 min on free dive on each reef at each cluster; 12-15min for each cluster survey.

BCO-DMO Processing

* Sheet "fish data" in submitted file FishSurveys2022_FinalNSF.xlsx (submitted to BCO-DMO 2024-04-18) was imported into the BCO-DMO data system as the primary table dataset.
* Sheet "metadata" contained multiple tables.
** The table with columns "date, notes" was exported added to the dataset as supplemental file fish_and_invert_survey_notes.csv."
** The note with heading "Survey overview" was added to the Methods & Sampling section of the metadata.
** The site information with columns "reef name,GPS data" was exported as a separate supplemental file reef_cluster_site_list.csv. Additional columns were added for the site description, and the separate lat, lon in decimal degree format.

* Column names adjusted to conform to BCO-DMO naming conventions designed to support broad re-use by a variety of research tools and scripting languages. [Only numbers, letters, and underscores. Can not start with a number]

* Date converted to ISO 8601 format

* columns cluster_lat,cluster_lon added to the fish data table from the site information (using reef name provided in "Cluster" column).

* Note: These data include currently unaccepted synonyms of the accepted taxon names. The supplemental file fish_and_invert_species_list.csv which includes names and identifiers for both the names used in the dataset and the equivalent currently accepted names (as of 2024-02-26).

Data Files

File
922228_v1_fish-data.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 53.65 KB) MD5:4df167e17a057e0fe56013f59e53e112 Primary data file for dataset ID 922228, version 1

Supplemental Files

File
Fish and Invertebrate Species List (with Taxon IDs) filename: fish_and_invert_species_list.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 4.89 KB) MD5:12bf9ccb6ca461259cf841ff70c59cc8 A supplemental table containing organism identifications (common and latin names). These were matched at the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and the taxon status (accepted, unaccepted) and taxon identifiers were added. Some are not the currently accepted synonyms, an additional column containing the currently accepted synonyms (as of 2024-02-26) was added. Column information (name, definition): type, organism type (fish or invert) common_name, common name as used in the main data table for the dataset. species_or_lowest_identifiable_taxon, Scientific name or lowest identifiable taxon for the common_name category. AphiaID, taxon identifier (AphiaID, see WoRMS) for the "species_or_lowest_identifiable_taxon" LSID, Lifescience Identifier (LSID) for the "species_or_lowest_identifiable_taxon"
Fish and Invertebrate Survey Notes filename: fish_and_invert_survey_notes.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 1.31 KB) MD5:9602c4f537e21ec6b78ab1fef0520d64 Notes from the fish and invertebrate survey. Columns : date, notes.
Reef Cluster Site List filename: reef_cluster_site_list.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 499 bytes) MD5:c1c109da3d9dd8eec65fca35dcf3f838 Artificial reef cluster site list for fish and invertebrate surveys conducted in 2022. Two different sites: reefs with name PN# were constructed in May 2021, and CM# were constructed in May 2022. At each site three clusters of nine reefs were constructed. Each cluster was separated by at least 150 m and were constructed at ~3 m depth. Column name, description, units: reef_name, Reef cluster identifier lat_dd, site latitude, decimal degrees lon_dd, site longitude, decimal degrees Construction_Month, Month of reef construction (format: %b, .e.g. "May") Construction_Year, Year of reef construction (format: %Y, e.g. "2021") Site_Description, Description of the site location and island.

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Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1948622

Deployments

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Instruments

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Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
Observer	observer	unitless	person
Date	start date of survey (local time zone, Eastern Time EST/EDT) Format: %Y-%m-%d	unitless	date_local
Time	start time of survey (local time zone, Eastern Time EST/EDT)	unitless	time_local
Assembly_day	days after being built	unitless	site_descrip
Cluster	unique cluster ID	unitless	site
cluster_lat	latitude of cluster location	decimal degrees	lat
cluster_lon	longitude of cluster location	decimal degrees	lon
Reef	unique reef ID	unitless	site_descrip
Species	Organism identification category (this is the "common_name" column in Supplemental File: "Fish and Invertebrate Species List (with Taxon IDs)" )	unitless	animal_group
Count	abundance at each size class identified under the total length column	unitless	count
Total_length	Total length is a standard measure for fishes that includes the length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin.	centimeters (cm)	length
Transient	binary Y/N to identify transiet fish 0 or blank means no fish was observed	unitless	site_descrip
Floy_tag	binary Y/N to state whether the fish has a floy tag or not	unitless	site_descrip
Floy_color	color of floy tag if present	unitless	site_descrip
Floy_size	floy tag size if present: S, M, L	unitless	site_descrip
Floy_date	floy tag date if present	unitless	site_descrip
Floy_ID	floy tag ID if present	unitless	site_descrip
Notes	notes from datasheet, etc	unitless	comment

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