Abstract:

A VideoRay Pro3 or Pro4 ROV equipped with red laser scale (distance between lasers = 10 cm) was employed to estimate the size distribution of reef fishes at study sites.

Suggested Citation:

Patterson III, William F, Joseph Tarnecki, and Charles Jagoe. 2015. Remotely operated vehicle (ROV) laser estimates of reef fish length at natural reefs sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico from November 2010 – August 2011. Distributed by: GRIIDC, Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. doi:10.7266/N7DV1GTP

Purpose:

To estimate size distributions of reef fishes with an ROV.

Data Parameters and Units:

Date (date sample collected MM/DD/YYYY), Site (reef name), Species (common name) [Jack, Red Porgy, Snapper, Scamp, Bigeye, Blue Runner, Cubbyu, Triggerfish, Grouper, Tomtate, Stingray, Reef Butterfly, Angelfish, Jackknife fish, Bass, Drum, Hogfish, Sheepshead, Spadefish, Lionfish, Scrawled Filefish, Soapfish], FL (estimated bias-corrected fork length in mm from laser scale data), and TL (estimated bias-corrected total length in mm from laser scale data).

Methods:

Methodology reported in Patterson WF III, Dance MA, Addis DT (2009) Development of a remotely operated vehicle based methodology to estimate fish community structure at artificial reef sites in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Proc Gulf Caribb Fish Inst 61: 263-270.

Instruments:

VideoRay Pro 3 and Pro 4 Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Mecco laser scaler

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