70453 2013-2015 Sampling Protocols Document Published / External 70448 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program: Assessment of coral reef fish communities in Puerto Rico from 2014-05-19 to 2014-12-03 and from 2016-06-07 to 2017-09-15 (NCEI Accession 0224477) Data Set The National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) provides a biennial ecological characterization at a broad spatial scale of general reef condition for reef fishes, corals and benthic habitat (i.e., fish species composition/density/size, benthic cover, and coral density/size/condition). This report describes the sampling designs used to monitor coral reefs and associated biological communities around Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) as part of NCRMP. NCRMP began in 2013 and over the years the sampling design has changed to integrate new information, achieve new objectives and develop more precise measurements. This report is divided by year and jurisdiction to describe each sampling design. In general sampling for each jurisdiction occurs biennially with sampling in Puerto Rico, and the USVI and Flower Garden Banks occurring in alternating years To describe the sampling designs used to monitor coral reefs and associated biological communities around Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands (USVI) and the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) as part of NCRMP that were done from 2013-2015 National Centers for Environmental Information - Silver Spring, Maryland Silver Spring MD Documentation Acrobat Portable Document Format Published Distributor 2021 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information NCEI ncei.info@noaa.gov https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/contact NCEI Contact Information Information for contacts at NCEI. Online Resource https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/archive/accession/0224477/1.1/data/0-data/NCRMP_PR2014-2016_Fish_Updated_Submission/Documentation/NCRMP_CaribGOM_Protocol_SampleFrame_2013-2015.pdf 2021 Organization NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information https://ror.org/04r0wrp59 NCRMP_PR2014-2016_Fish_Updated_Submission/Documentation/NCRMP_CaribGOM_Protocol_SampleFrame_2013-201 2016-04-25T14:57:00 PDF PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format 641K gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:70453 Lee Weinberger 2023-08-13T08:56:51 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:17 2023-08-14 Southeast Fisheries Science Center SEFSC 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami FL 33149 USA (305)361-5761 www.sefsc.noaa.gov 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST 1001 Public No 1 Year