Fisheries-Independent Monitoring Program 2001 Annual Data Summary Report

This report provides a summary of the data collected in 2001 by the Fisheries-Independent Monitoring (FIM) program, which completed its thirteenth year of samplingin Florida waters. Monitoring was conducted monthly using a stratified-randomsampling (SRS) design in Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, the northern Indian RiverLagoon, Cedar Key, the southern Indian River Lagoon, Apalachicola Bay, the FloridaKeys, and northeast Florida. Gears used for routine monitoring at the variouslaboratories included 21.3-m seines, 6.1-m otter trawls, 183-m haul seines, and 183-mpurse seines (Table OV01-01). In the Florida Keys, visual surveys were used to samplereef-fish. Details of the sampling methods for the Florida Keys are discussed in thisreport (see Fisheries-Independent Monitoring and the Florida Keys sections).

Publisher - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI)

Subjects - Fish Monitoring

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Citation: FWRI. 2001. Fisheries-Independent Monitoring Program 2001 Annual Data Summary Report. St. Petersburg (FL): Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI). 333 pp http://www.lsjr.org/pdf/FIM_2001_Annual_Report.pdf