Digital Stereo Videos for Hawaiian Deep7 Bottomfish collected using the MOUSS from small boat and ship-based operations for Stock Assessment

This accession contains the Modular Optical Underwater Survey System (MOUSS) stereo video data collected around the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) for the stock assessment of the deep-7 bottomfish species. Each video is fifteen minutes from the MOUSS touchdown on the seafloor as that is the literature based standard for deep-7 species. The products also include depth and temperature data collected using Temperature Depth Recorder (TDR) along with temporal and spatial information.

Operationally collect fishery-independent data to estimate stock abundance of economically and socio-culturally important Hawaiian bottomfish

Dataset was created to manage all information associated with the collection of MOUSS video of the Deep-7 bottomfish in MHI.