Dataset

Long-term Otter Trawl Survey

OBIS Malaysia Open in mapper Explore occurrences

Long-term Otter Trawl Survey is performed at various estuarine and inner continental shelf sites during July and September each year. Trawl used has a length of 4.9 m and 6 mm bar mesh at the cod end. Tows (n=3) are 2 minutes long. For each tow 20 individuals of each species are measured (fish - TL or FL, crabs - BW, sex is also noted) and the remainder are counted. Shrimp, hermit crabs and mud crabs are not counted.

Citation
Vasslides, J. M., J. L. Rackovan, J. L. Toth, R. Hagan, and K. W. Able. 2011. Metadata Manual for Fish and Environmental Records at the Rutgers University Marine Field Station. IMCS Technical Report #2011-1.
Published
November 12, 2018 at 15:28
License
Restricted
517
total submitted occurrences
515
accepted occurrences
54
taxa
51
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 517
100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 514
99.4%
minimumDepthInMeters 246
47.6%
occurrenceStatus 517
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 246
47.6%
NOT_MARINE 2
0.4%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 1
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data