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Summary

Short Citation
Southeast Fisheries Science Center, 2024: Reef Visual Census (RVC) data., https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/8585.
Full Citation Examples

Abstract

Provide data on frequency of occurrence , density abundance, and length frequency of reef fish throughout Florida reef tract from 1978 forward.

Distribution Information

Access Constraints:

None

Use Constraints:

Please cite

Child Items

Type Title
Entity Benthic Data
Entity Samples
Entity Stratum
Entity Taxonomic_Data.csv

Contact Information

Point of Contact
Jeremiah Blondeau
jeremiah.blondeau@noaa.gov
305-361-4252

Metadata Contact
Jeremiah Blondeau
jeremiah.blondeau@noaa.gov
305-361-4252

Extents

Geographic Area 1

-83.031809° W, -79.982536° E, 26.996169° N, 24.549402° S

Atlantic Ocean, U.S. South

Time Frame 1
1979 - Present

Item Identification

Title: Reef Visual Census (RVC) data.
Short Name: Reef Fish Visual Census Data
Status: In Work
Abstract:

Provide data on frequency of occurrence , density abundance, and length frequency of reef fish throughout Florida reef tract from 1978 forward.

Purpose:

Long-term monitoring of Florida reef fishery species.

Notes:

Continuous, long-term, fisheries independent two-stage stratified random monitoring program.

Starting in 2014, RVC folded into the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) and now includes a more focused line-point intercept and coral demographic

Data from 1999 forward is available for download via interactive program

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None abundance
None benthic data
None distribution
None Environmental Data
None fisheries-independent data
None habitats
None queryable data
None Reef Fish
None Reefs
None survey data

Temporal Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None 1978-present

Spatial Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None Coastal Waters of Florida
None Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
None Gulf Of Mexico

Physical Location

Organization: Southeast Fisheries Science Center
City: Miami
State/Province: FL
Country: USA
Location Description:

Location Of The Main Office Of The South East Fisheries Science Center

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Presentation Form: Table (digital)

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 282086
Date Effective From: 2010
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Blondeau, Jeremiah
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Email Address: jeremiah.blondeau@noaa.gov
Phone: 305-361-4252
Contact Instructions:

Contact by email preferred.

Distributor

CC ID: 284870
Date Effective From: 1978
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC)
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Phone: (305)361-5761
URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/about/southeast-fisheries-science-center
Business Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 284871
Date Effective From: 2010
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Blondeau, Jeremiah
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Email Address: jeremiah.blondeau@noaa.gov
Phone: 305-361-4252
Contact Instructions:

Contact by email preferred.

Point of Contact

CC ID: 279326
Date Effective From: 2010
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Blondeau, Jeremiah
Address: 75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami, FL 33149
USA
Email Address: jeremiah.blondeau@noaa.gov
Phone: 305-361-4252
Contact Instructions:

Contact by email preferred.

View Historical Support Roles

Extents

Currentness Reference: Ground Condition

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 279329
W° Bound: -83.031809
E° Bound: -79.982536
N° Bound: 26.996169
S° Bound: 24.549402
Description

Atlantic Ocean, U.S. South

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 279328
Time Frame Type: Continuing
Start: 1979

Access Information

Security Class: Unclassified
Data Access Policy:

To qualified Researchers

Data Access Procedure:

Download from provided links

Data Access Constraints:

None

Data Use Constraints:

Please cite

Distribution Information

Distribution 1

CC ID: 388429
Download URL: https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/
Distributor: Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) (1978 - Present)
Description:

Landing Page for Data Download Program

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 388428
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.01.012
Name: Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition
URL Type:
Online Resource
Description:

Steven G. Smith, Jerald S. Ault, James A. Bohnsack, Douglas E. Harper, Jiangang Luo, David B. McClellan,

Multispecies survey design for assessing reef-fish stocks, spatially explicit management performance, and ecosystem condition,

Fisheries Research,

Volume 109, Issue 1,

2011,

Pages 25-41,

ISSN 0165-7836,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2011.01.012

Data Quality

Quality Control Procedures Employed:

Data entry (server and client-side) error and bound checks.Physical proofing that field datasheets match computer entered data.Automated (R, SAS, Python) checks for additional miss-entry and bound errors.

Data Management

Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified?: No
Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: 10
Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: Yes
Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: No
If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate: No
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination: 90
If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing, Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed:

None

Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location: To Be Determined
If To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended, Explain:

N/A

Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving: 120
How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?:

The data resides on a secure government network requiring multi-factor authentication for network access.

Lineage

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 284876
Description:

Data is proofed for accuracy through a series of QAQC steps. Elemental data is currently stored in MS Access Database. An additional Analysis Ready dataset is housed on NOAA server. Analysis Ready datasets area created upon completion of QAQC procedures, yearly, and are a long flat text file where replicate samples are averaged (at the Second Stage Unit) and all zeros added to insure appropriate calculations are made.

Child Items

Rubric scores updated every 15m

Rubric Score Type Title
Entity Benthic Data
Entity Samples
Entity Stratum
Entity Taxonomic_Data.csv

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 8585
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:8585
Metadata Record Created By: Lee M Weinberger
Metadata Record Created: 2008-12-11 03:08+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2022-03-21
Owner Org: SEFSC
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2022-03-21
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2023-03-21