Instrument: Purse-seine Fishing Gear

Acronym:

Purse-seine

External Identifier:

» rdfs:seeAlso http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L05/current/64/

Description

A purse seine is a large wall of netting deployed in a circle around an entire school of fish. The seine has floats along the top line with a lead line of chain along the bottom. Once a school of fish is located, a skiff pulls the seine into the water as the vessel encircles the school with the net. A cable running along the bottom is then pulled in, "pursing" the net closed on the bottom, preventing fish from escaping by swimming downward. The catch is harvested by bringing the net alongside the vessel and brailing the fish aboard.

Datasets

Dataset Name	Brief Description
AA-CSIA Olson	Amino acid compound-specific isotope analysis (AA-CSIA) of tissue samples from four distinct trophic groups across the food web in the pelagic eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
Bulk Raw Isotopes - Tunas	Bulk raw isotopic data from tissue samples from three species of tunas collected in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean onboard commercial tuna purse-seine vessels
Ecoapps: fish and crustacean biomass	Biomass of fish and crustaceans collected at living shoreline, natural marsh, and bulkhead sites
Ecoapps: fish and crustacean counts	Counts of fish and crustaceans collected at living shoreline, natural marsh, and bulkhead sites
Fish IDs and measurements	Sex, Tag ID, length, and mass of each fish used in the trials.
Number of eggs spawned	Describes how many eggs were produced in each trial.
Peak GSI	Peak GSI data from fish surveys.
Raw patterns	Raw pattern data collected by S. Brander.
Sex ratio averages by location	Averages from the fish survey by site.
Trial IDs for spawning experiments	Lists which fish (by tag ID) were used in each trial replicate.

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Instrument: Purse-seine Fishing Gear