erdFedRockfishStation eng UTF8 dataset service Roy Mendelssohn NOAA NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division +1 831-420-3666 110 McAllister Road Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA erd.data@noaa.gov pointOfContact 2026-03-12 ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data ISO 19115-2:2009(E) 3 column row temporal SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey, Surface Data, 1987-2015 2026-03-12 creation coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov erdFedRockfishStation Keith Sakuma NOAA SWFSC FED Keith.Sakuma@noaa.gov https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey: Station Information and Surface Data. Surveys have been conducted along the central California coast in May/June every year since 1983. In 2004 the survey area was expanded to cover the entire coast from San Diego to Cape Mendocino. The survey samples a series of fixed trawl stations using a midwater trawl. The midwater trawl survey gear captures significant numbers of approximately 10 rockfish species during their pelagic juvenile stage (i.e., 50-150 days old), by which time annual reproductive success has been established. Catch-per-unit-effort data from the survey are analyzed and serve as the basis for predicting future recruitment to rockfish fisheries. Results for several species (e.g., bocaccio, chilipepper [S. goodei], and widow rockfish [S. entomelas]) have shown that the survey data can be useful in predicting year-class strength in age-based stock assessments. The survey's data on YOY Pacific whiting has also been used in the stock assessment process. To assist in obtaining additional northward spatial coverage of YOY Pacific whiting off Oregon and Washington, in 2001 the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative in cooperation with the NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center began a midwater trawl survey patterned after the NOAA NMFS SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division's (FED) existing survey. Both surveys work cooperatively together each year in order to resolve interannual abundance patterns of YOY rockfish and Pacific whiting on a coastwide basis, which provides expedient, critical information that can be used in the fisheries management process. The large quantity of physical data collected during the surveys (e.g., CTD with attached transimissometer and fluorometer, thermosalinometer, and ADCP) have provided a better understanding of the hydrographic conditions off the California coast and analysis of these data have been distributed through the publication of NOAA NMFS Technical Memoranda. For more information, see https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish and http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/projects/project_info.php?projectID=100118 Keith Sakuma NOAA SWFSC FED Keith.Sakuma@noaa.gov https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information pointOfContact bottom bucket California coast cruise ctd data FED fisheries fixed fluorometer header hydrographic index juvenile midwater NMFS NOAA pacific rockfish salinity species station survey SWFSC temperature thermosalinometer transimissometer trawl theme NOAA SWFSC FED project time longitude latitude sea_water_temperature sea_water_practical_salinity sea_water_temperature sea_water_practical_salinity theme CF Standard Name Table v70 The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. 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NOAA SWFSC FED largerWorkCitation project Unidata Common Data Model Trajectory largerWorkCitation project eng geoscientificInformation 1 -126.0017 -117.323 32.53783 44.50116 seconds 1987-05-24T02:10:00Z 2015-06-14T11:51:00Z SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey, Surface Data, 1987-2015 2026-03-12 creation Keith Sakuma NOAA SWFSC FED Keith.Sakuma@noaa.gov https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey: Station Information and Surface Data. Surveys have been conducted along the central California coast in May/June every year since 1983. In 2004 the survey area was expanded to cover the entire coast from San Diego to Cape Mendocino. The survey samples a series of fixed trawl stations using a midwater trawl. The midwater trawl survey gear captures significant numbers of approximately 10 rockfish species during their pelagic juvenile stage (i.e., 50-150 days old), by which time annual reproductive success has been established. Catch-per-unit-effort data from the survey are analyzed and serve as the basis for predicting future recruitment to rockfish fisheries. Results for several species (e.g., bocaccio, chilipepper [S. goodei], and widow rockfish [S. entomelas]) have shown that the survey data can be useful in predicting year-class strength in age-based stock assessments. The survey's data on YOY Pacific whiting has also been used in the stock assessment process. To assist in obtaining additional northward spatial coverage of YOY Pacific whiting off Oregon and Washington, in 2001 the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative in cooperation with the NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center began a midwater trawl survey patterned after the NOAA NMFS SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division's (FED) existing survey. Both surveys work cooperatively together each year in order to resolve interannual abundance patterns of YOY rockfish and Pacific whiting on a coastwide basis, which provides expedient, critical information that can be used in the fisheries management process. The large quantity of physical data collected during the surveys (e.g., CTD with attached transimissometer and fluorometer, thermosalinometer, and ADCP) have provided a better understanding of the hydrographic conditions off the California coast and analysis of these data have been distributed through the publication of NOAA NMFS Technical Memoranda. For more information, see https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish and http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/projects/project_info.php?projectID=100118 ERDDAP tabledap 1 -126.0017 -117.323 32.53783 44.50116 seconds 1987-05-24T02:10:00Z 2015-06-14T11:51:00Z tight ERDDAPtabledapDatasetQueryAndAccess https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdFedRockfishStation ERDDAP:tabledap ERDDAP-tabledap ERDDAP's tabledap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey, Surface Data, 1987-2015 2026-03-12 creation Keith Sakuma NOAA SWFSC FED Keith.Sakuma@noaa.gov https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey: Station Information and Surface Data. Surveys have been conducted along the central California coast in May/June every year since 1983. In 2004 the survey area was expanded to cover the entire coast from San Diego to Cape Mendocino. The survey samples a series of fixed trawl stations using a midwater trawl. The midwater trawl survey gear captures significant numbers of approximately 10 rockfish species during their pelagic juvenile stage (i.e., 50-150 days old), by which time annual reproductive success has been established. Catch-per-unit-effort data from the survey are analyzed and serve as the basis for predicting future recruitment to rockfish fisheries. Results for several species (e.g., bocaccio, chilipepper [S. goodei], and widow rockfish [S. entomelas]) have shown that the survey data can be useful in predicting year-class strength in age-based stock assessments. The survey's data on YOY Pacific whiting has also been used in the stock assessment process. To assist in obtaining additional northward spatial coverage of YOY Pacific whiting off Oregon and Washington, in 2001 the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative in cooperation with the NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center began a midwater trawl survey patterned after the NOAA NMFS SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division's (FED) existing survey. Both surveys work cooperatively together each year in order to resolve interannual abundance patterns of YOY rockfish and Pacific whiting on a coastwide basis, which provides expedient, critical information that can be used in the fisheries management process. The large quantity of physical data collected during the surveys (e.g., CTD with attached transimissometer and fluorometer, thermosalinometer, and ADCP) have provided a better understanding of the hydrographic conditions off the California coast and analysis of these data have been distributed through the publication of NOAA NMFS Technical Memoranda. For more information, see https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish and http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/projects/project_info.php?projectID=100118 OPeNDAP 1 -126.0017 -117.323 32.53783 44.50116 seconds 1987-05-24T02:10:00Z 2015-06-14T11:51:00Z tight OPeNDAPDatasetQueryAndAccess https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdFedRockfishStation OPeNDAP:OPeNDAP OPeNDAP An OPeNDAP service for tabular (sequence) data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. download SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey, Surface Data, 1987-2015 2026-03-12 creation Keith Sakuma NOAA SWFSC FED Keith.Sakuma@noaa.gov https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish information web browser Background Information Background information from the source information originator SWFSC FED Mid Water Trawl Juvenile Rockfish Survey: Station Information and Surface Data. Surveys have been conducted along the central California coast in May/June every year since 1983. In 2004 the survey area was expanded to cover the entire coast from San Diego to Cape Mendocino. The survey samples a series of fixed trawl stations using a midwater trawl. The midwater trawl survey gear captures significant numbers of approximately 10 rockfish species during their pelagic juvenile stage (i.e., 50-150 days old), by which time annual reproductive success has been established. Catch-per-unit-effort data from the survey are analyzed and serve as the basis for predicting future recruitment to rockfish fisheries. Results for several species (e.g., bocaccio, chilipepper [S. goodei], and widow rockfish [S. entomelas]) have shown that the survey data can be useful in predicting year-class strength in age-based stock assessments. The survey's data on YOY Pacific whiting has also been used in the stock assessment process. To assist in obtaining additional northward spatial coverage of YOY Pacific whiting off Oregon and Washington, in 2001 the Pacific Whiting Conservation Cooperative in cooperation with the NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center began a midwater trawl survey patterned after the NOAA NMFS SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division's (FED) existing survey. Both surveys work cooperatively together each year in order to resolve interannual abundance patterns of YOY rockfish and Pacific whiting on a coastwide basis, which provides expedient, critical information that can be used in the fisheries management process. The large quantity of physical data collected during the surveys (e.g., CTD with attached transimissometer and fluorometer, thermosalinometer, and ADCP) have provided a better understanding of the hydrographic conditions off the California coast and analysis of these data have been distributed through the publication of NOAA NMFS Technical Memoranda. For more information, see https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/molecular-ecology-and-genetic-analysis-california-salmon-and-groundfish and http://www.sanctuarysimon.org/projects/project_info.php?projectID=100118 ERDDAP Subset 1 -126.0017 -117.323 32.53783 44.50116 seconds 1987-05-24T02:10:00Z 2015-06-14T11:51:00Z tight ERDDAP_Subset https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdFedRockfishStation.subset search Subset Web page to facilitate selecting subsets of the dataset download physicalMeasurement cruise String Cruise ctd_index short CTD Index ctd_no short CTD Number station short Station time double Time bottom_depth short Bottom Depth bucket_temperature float Bucket Temperature bucket_salinity float Bucket Practical Salinity ts_temperature float Thermosalinomter Temperature ts_salinity float Thermosalinomter Practical Salinity Roy Mendelssohn NOAA NMFS SWFSC Environmental Research Division +1 831-420-3666 110 McAllister Road Santa Cruz CA 95060 USA erd.data@noaa.gov distributor OPeNDAP DAP/2.0 https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdFedRockfishStation.html order Data Subset Form ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. download https://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/tabledap/erdFedRockfishStation.graph order Make-A-Graph Form ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. mapDigital dataset 2013-04-08 source files from Keith Sakuma (FED) to Lynn Dewitt (ERD) to Bob Simons (ERD) 2013-04-09 Bob Simons (erd.data@noaa.gov) converted data files for 1987-2011 from .csv to .nc with Projects.convertRockfish(). 2017-02-03 Bob Simons (erd.data@noaa.gov) converted data files for 2012-2015 from xlsx to .nc with Projects.convertRockfish(). This record was created from dataset metadata by ERDDAP Version 2.29.0