Dataset

Dry Tortugas Reef Visual Census 1999

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In 1998, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) Fisheries Independent Monitoring (FIM) program began a long-term monitoring effort of key reef fish populations in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. This effort was aimed at evaluating the relative abundance, size structure, and habitat utilization of specific reef fish species that are targeted by commercial and recreational fisheries.

Citation
South Florida Reef Visual Census; https://grunt.sefsc.noaa.gov/rvc_analysis20/samples/index
Published
June 03, 2025 at 17:28
License
To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0)
132,693
total submitted occurrences
132,365
accepted occurrences
266,319
measurements and facts
209
taxa
190
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 132,693
100.0%
scientificNameID 328
0.2%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_MATCH 328
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 328
0.2%

Measurement types

DNA derived data