RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Linking habitat to recruitment: evaluating the importance of pelagic Sargassum to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
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| ID: 63230
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Created: 2020-11-18
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Last Modified: 2025-04-01
Project (PRJ) | ID: 56760
ID: 63230
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| * » Title | RESTORE Sponsored Research Project: Linking habitat to recruitment: evaluating the importance of pelagic Sargassum to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico |
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| Short Name | Project: Hernandez, Sargassum |
| * Status | In Work |
| Creation Date | 2017 |
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| • Publication Date | 2020 |
| * » Abstract |
This project will evaluate the importance of Sargassum as a nursery habitat for fish in the northern Gulf of Mexico. |
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Sargassum is thought to serve as nursery habitat for recreationally and commercially important fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, such as gray triggerfish and mahi mahi. However, information about the nursery function of Sargassum for juvenile life stages of these fishes is lacking, and managers know little about the environmental factors that drive variability in Sargassum abundance and distribution. The relationship between Sargassum and fish recruitment will be used to develop a long-term forecast system to provide fishery managers with a way to link changes in weather, ocean, and climate conditions to changes in Sargassum and subsequent changes in fish recruitment. This study will try to determine if a “good” Sargassum year results in “good” recruitment for a suite of managed fisheries species. This project is led by the University of Southern Mississippi in partnership with the University of South Florida and NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center. This project is funded by the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) RESTORE Science Program under award NA17NOS4510099 to the University of Southern Mississippi. |
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| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords | EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL AQUATIC SCIENCES > FISHERIES |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords | EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS > MACROALGAE (SEAWEEDS) > BROWN ALGAE |
| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Service Keywords | EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > DYNAMIC VEGETATION/ECOSYSTEM MODELS |
| NCCOS Keywords | NCCOS Research Data Type > Field Observation |
| NCCOS Keywords | NCCOS Research Data Type > Model |
| NCCOS Keywords | NCCOS Sponsored Research > RESTORE Science Program |
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| Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords | OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF AMERICA |
| NCCOS Keywords | NCCOS Research Location > Region > Gulf of Mexico |
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| • » Organization | National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science |
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| • » City | Silver Spring |
| • » State/Province | MD |
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| * » Support Role | Data Steward |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2020 |
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| Position | NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator |
| Email Address | NCCOS.data@noaa.gov |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2021 |
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| Organization | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2019 |
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| Organization | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2018 |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2020 |
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| Position | NCCOS Scientific Data Coordinator |
| Email Address | NCCOS.data@noaa.gov |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2017 |
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Mandy Karnauskas, NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center, mandy.karnauskas@noaa.gov Frank Parker, NOAA RESTORE Science Program, frank.parker@noaa.gov |
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| * » Date Effective From | 2017 |
| Date Effective To | 2021 |
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Principal Investigator: • Frank Hernandez (Lead Investigator, The University of Southern Mississippi, frank.hernandez@usm.edu) Additional Principal Investigators: • Chuanmin Hu (University of South Florida) • Kevin Dillon (The University of Southern Mississippi) • Glenn Zapfe (NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center) • Walter Ingram (NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center) |
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| * » Start | 2017-06 |
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| Start Date | 2022 |
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| End Date | Present |
| » Download URL | https://doi.org/10.7284/909403 |
| Distributor | Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) (2018 - Present) |
| File Name | CRUISE ID: PS1826 |
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Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. 2022. Point Sur 1826, Gulfport, Mississippi, 2018-05-30 to 2018-06-06. Rolling Deck to Repository. https://doi.org/10.7284/909403 |
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Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. 2022. Point Sur 1804, Gulfport, Mississippi, 2017-07-20 to 2017-07-28. Rolling Deck to Repository. https://doi.org/10.7284/909356 |
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| Start Date | 2021-09-18 |
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| » Download URL | http://doi.org/10.17632/g6sn7ppk42.1 |
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| File Name | Monthly SST and color index (CI) in the Gulf of Mexico |
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Zhang, Y., and C. Hu. 2021. Data from: Ocean temperature and color frontal zones in the Gulf of Mexico: Where, when, and why. Mendeley Data. Dataset. http://doi.org/10.17632/g6sn7ppk42.1 |
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| Start Date | 2021-09-13 |
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| » Download URL | https://doi.org/10.25921/99m4-wn96 |
| Distributor | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (2021 - Present) |
| File Name | Microplastics |
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Lestrade, O., and F. Hernandez. 2021. NOAA RESTORE Science Program: linking habitat to recruitment: evaluating the importance of pelagic sargassum to fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico: microplastic concentration and ingestion in the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2017-07-20 to 2019-06-04 (NCEI Accession 0232040). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. https://doi.org/10.25921/99m4-wn96 |
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| » Download URL | https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0190272 |
| Distributor | NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) (2019 - Present) |
| File Name | Sargassum density from MODIS |
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Wang, M., C. Hu, and B. Barnes. 2019. Sargassum density and coverage using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data from 2001-01-01 to 2018-12-31 (NCEI Accession 0190272). NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0190272 |
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Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. 2020. Point Sur 1922, Gulfport, Mississippi, 2019-05-28 to 2019-06-05. Rolling Deck to Repository. https://doi.org/10.7284/908581 |
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Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium. 2020. Point Sur 1903, Gulfport, Mississippi, 2018-07-08 to 2018-07-17. Rolling Deck to Repository. https://doi.org/10.7284/908580 |
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| » Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified? | No |
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| » Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive? | Yes |
| » Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver? | No |
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To evaluate the nursery function and importance of Sargassum to fisheries in a way that is useful to fisheries managers, and to better understand the ocean and climate conditions that result in “good” Sargassum years, the researchers will measure variability in the distribution and abundance of Sargassum in the northern Gulf of Mexico. They will also assess the nursery-role function of Sargassum relative to its location and variability in different habitats (open ocean vs. nearer to shore) and the morphology (i.e. thickness) of Sargassum mats. Additionally, they will develop and test the usefulness of including measures of the capacity for Sargassum to serve as juvenile fish nursery habitat (i.e. habitat indices) in population assessments of recreationally and commercially important fish species associated with Sargassum. These habitat indices will be developed using data collected from satellites and ships in the field. |
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Catalog Details
| Catalog Item ID | 63230 |
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| Metadata Record Created By | Jessica Morgan |
| Metadata Record Created | 2020-11-18 18:10+0000 |
| Metadata Record Last Modified By | SysAdmin InPortAdmin |
| » Metadata Record Last Modified | 2025-04-01 17:16+0000 |
| Metadata Record Published | 2020-11-18 |
| Owner Org | NCCOS |
| Metadata Publication Status | Published Externally |
| Do Not Publish? | N |
| Metadata Workflow State | Published / External |
| Metadata Last Review Date | 2020-11-18 |
| Metadata Review Frequency | 1 Year |
| Metadata Next Review Date | 2021-11-18 |
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