Fisheries-Independent Monitoring Program 2005 Annual Data Summary Report

This report provides a summary of the data collected in 2005 by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Fish and Wildlife Research Institute’s (FWRI) Fisheries-Independent Monitoring (FIM) program, which completed its seventeenth year of sampling in Florida waters. Monitoring was conducted monthly using a stratified-random sampling (SRS) design in Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, the northern Indian River Lagoon, Cedar Key, the southern Indian River Lagoon, Apalachicola Bay, and northeast Florida. Gears used for routine monitoring in the various areas included 21.3-m seines, 6.1-m otter trawls, and 183-m haul seines (Table OV05-01).

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

Subjects - Fish Monitoring

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Citation: FWRI. 2005. Fisheries-Independent Monitoring Program 2005 Annual Data Summary Report. St. Petersburg (FL): Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI); IHR 2006-10. 343 pp http://www.lsjr.org/pdf/FIM_2005_Annual_Report.pdf