The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP)
Dates
Start Date
2002-03-29
Acquisition
2013-12-20
Start Date
2002-03-29
Citation
Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP): .
Summary
In general, ChesMMAP is fishery-independent monitoring survey that uses a large-mesh bottom trawl to sample late juvenile-to-adult fishes in the mainstem of Chesapeake Bay. This program currently provides data on relative abundance, length, weight, sex ratio, maturity, age, and trophic interactions for several important fish species that inhabit the bay seasonally.
Summary
In general, ChesMMAP is fishery-independent monitoring survey that uses a large-mesh bottom trawl to sample late juvenile-to-adult fishes in the mainstem of Chesapeake Bay. This program currently provides data on relative abundance, length, weight, sex ratio, maturity, age, and trophic interactions for several important fish species that inhabit the bay seasonally.
The Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP) was developed in 2002 to assist in filling single species and multispecies stock assessment data gaps, and ultimately to support bay-specific stock assessment modeling activities at both single and multispecies scales. While no single gear or monitoring program can collect all of the data necessary for both types of assessments, ChesMMAP was designed to maximize the biological and ecological information collected for several recreationally, commercially, and ecologically important species in the bay.
Received from D. Gauthier at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science and processed for inclusion in the OBIS-USA database by A. Benson and P. Goldstein
