{
    "tag": 19227,
    "title": "August - October 1998 Faunal Survey in Closed Area II, Central Georges Bank",
    "pubdate": "2001",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2001-66",
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/open_file_report\/ofr2001-066\/98METFAU_meta.faq.html",
    "format": null,
    "email": null,
    "descript": "During the months of August-October, 1998, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the New England scallop industry conducted a cooperative survey of Closed Area II to assess the sea scallop population after 3.5 years of closure to all fishing. The area was closed in December 1994 to conserve fish stocks.  Most of the tows are concentrated in the southern part of Closed Area II (south of 41o 30'N) and in the northernmost part (north of 41d 50'N).  The central area between 41d 30' and 41d 50'N was sparsely sampled. See the location map (1998lm.pdf) for the 1998 survey. The survey results were used here to plot species distribution maps.  For the species abundance maps, the data includes all tows of 9, 10 and 11 minutes duration (895 tows; ca21998srvabundA.pdf and ca21998srvabundB.txt) and excludes all replicate tows at sites where repeated tows were conducted in depletion experiments.  For the species presence\/absence maps, the data includes all tows (1544; ca21998srvpresabA.pdf and ca21998srvpresabB.txt ) except for those with bad navigation.",
    "lang": null,
    "journal": null,
    "pwid": null,
    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Rago, Paul",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Murawski, Steve",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Valentine, Page C.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Malczyk, Jeremy T.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Middleton, Tammie J.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "index_term": [
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "85",
            "name": "benthic ecosystems",
            "scope": "Biologic communities and habitats at the bottom of lakes, streams, or oceans."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "116",
            "name": "biota",
            "scope": "All living organisms in an area."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "317",
            "name": "ecosystem monitoring",
            "scope": "Recording, evaluating, and actively intervening over time in the interaction of living and nonliving elements in a specific environment."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "474",
            "name": "geospatial datasets",
            "scope": "Collections of related digital information that are geographically referenced."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "706",
            "name": "marine geology",
            "scope": "Branch of geology concerned with the composition, geologic history, and earth processes of the ocean floor and the continental margin."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "002",
            "name": "biota",
            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "007",
            "name": "environment",
            "scope": "Environmental resources, protection and conservation, for example environmental pollution, waste storage and treatment, environmental impact assessment, monitoring environmental risk, nature reserves, landscape, water quality, air quality, environmental modeling"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "image": [],
    "fan": []
}