Black and white imagery were collected using a stereo pair of underwater video cameras mounted on a SeaBED autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and deployed around the island of Tutuila in American Samoa to record observations of fishes encountered there. Imagery were collected during 17 AUV dives conducted on 10 different days during April 2012.

In July 2006, stereo-video surveys were conducted at six sites within two locations adjacent to two no-take areas, Mandu and Osprey. This video from WAMSI 3.2 and Ben Fitzpatrick's PhD (see metadata link under Ben's contact details). This data was used with data from Abrolhos and Capes regions in a larger study that compared the assemblage composition, relative abundance and size of fishes sampled using Baited remote underwater stereo-video (stereo BRUV) and Diver-operated stereo-video systems (stereo DOV).

Belt transects along 3 consecutively-placed, 25m transect lines were surveyed as part of Rapid Ecological Assessments conducted at 4 sites at Molokai Island in July and August, 2005 from the NOAA vessel Hi'ialakai (HI05-05). Raw survey data included species level abundance estimates.

This data set includes separate bioSampling logs from each LHP Bottomfishing cruise in the Hawaiian, Samoa, and Mariana Archipelagos as well as a master file with all records. While the data have not changed from previous InPort records (see Node 10806), this is part of an effort to standardize and streamline all life history program databases for past and future cruises. These data to NOT contain biosampling measurements for fish caught in non-cruise-related activities (e.g. fish acquired from auction).

The Hawaii deep-slope bottomfish fishery preferentially targets seven high value species (i.e. six snappers and one grouper, hereafter referred to as Deep7) and represents the major insular commercial fishery in the state. The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Stock Assessment Program (SAP) is responsible for regularly assessing this stock. To augment and improve the data used in the Deep7 assessment, PIFSC began developing a multi-gear Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey (BFISH) for the Deep7 stock in the Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) in 2011 (Richards et al., 2016). Benthic habitat has been shown to play a key role in determining the spatial distribution of demersal living marine resources (Richards et al., 2012). The BFISH survey employs a stratified random sampling design based on depth and habitat. Prior to the work presented here, the lack of usable backscatter data across the entire MHI domain was a major impediment to the development of a properly stratified operational fishery-independent survey covering the full domain of the stock. While backscatter data had been collected throughout the MHI, these data were collected using various platforms and sensors such that numeric backscatter values from disparate areas did not represent similar levels of substrate hardness. This precluding development of a comprehensive survey stratification across the MHI domain of the Deep7 stock. To remedy this situation, the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center conducted a one-year project to create comprehensive, high-resolution, synthesized depth, slope, and seafloor hardness maps and GIS layers for the Main Hawaiian Islands. This paper describes that effort in two parts: 1. Part I: Methods and results pertaining to the development of a 5-meter resolution Main Hawaiian Islands bathymetric and backscatter synthesis covering depths of 75 to 400 m; 2. Part II: Novel methods and results associated with the use of these newly created synthesis data in quantitatively defining effective habitat strata ratification for the NOAA PIFSC Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey in Hawaii (BFISH).

Fishing operations that focus on targeting bottomfish (mostly juvenile opakapaka) that are independent of a larger research vessel, i.e. the Oscar Elton Sette.

Contains information collected such as: lengths, weights, sex, quantity, species, etc. from various bottomfish and pelagic species during frequent visits to the United Fishing Agency Fish Auction in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Morphometric data of fishes caught during deep-water bottomfish operations at Independent Samoa.

Reson 8101ER multibeam Data were collected in June 17 - July 03, 2013 aboard NOAA Survey Launch Acoustic Habitat Investigator (AHI) around the island of Oahu, Main Hawaiian Islands during cruise AHI1306. These multibeam data were collected using SAIC ISS-2000 v 4.0.0.3.0 software in the Generic Sensor Format and processed using SABER editing software. Sound velocity corrections from a Seabird SBE19 CTD sensor and motion corrections from a POS-MV vertical reference were applied to the data in real time. Predicted tides were applied to the data in real time and observed tides were applied during post-processing. Horizontal accuracy is ~5m (differential GPS correctors applied), vertical accuracy is depth dependent (~1% of water depth), WGS84 datum. These data are not to be used for navigation. Depths mapped range from ~5 - 200 m. The AHI was deployed from shore.