Cooperative Gulf of Mexico Shark Pupping and Nursey Project

Identification and conservation of essential fish habitat are important components of providing adequate management and conservation for shark populations. This is of particular importance when attempting to understand the dynamics of sharks in coastal nuresry areas. Over the last few years, attempts have been made at delineating shark nursery areas throughout the east coast of the United States

Identification of shark essential fish habitat in coastal northern Gulf of Mexico;

Abundance Indices for Stock Assessment

Data Through 2016 is publicly available from the NCEI archive

To fishery Scientists and other qualified researchers upon request

COntact Data Steward

NOAA Data Quality Act Documentation and Pre-Dissemination guidelines

Data set is not for use in litigation. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable, NOAA cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentations caused by inaccuracies in these data, or as a result of these data being used on a particular system. NOAA makes no warranty, expressed or implied, nor does distribution constitute any such warranty

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Data Is in microsoft Access database