SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2024

Week 1

Below is the first preliminary data summary for the 2024 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 4-10 by NMFS on the vessel Oregon II. Catch data were taken with a 40-ft trawl.

Plotted catch rates have been converted to pounds per hour for a 40-ft trawl. Shrimp counts are heads-on. The squares on the charts are 10-minute grids. The number in each grid square is the average catch or count from all stations (may be one or more stations) that were sampled within a particular grid. The sampling stations were located randomly by depth zone.

The catch data indicated that the highest catch rate of brown shrimp was 207.2 lb/hr in 16 fm at 26° 04' N. lat. and 96° 59' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 3.7 lb/hr in 15 fm at 27° 31' N. lat. and 97° 02' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 48.9 lb/hr in 11 fm at 26° 08' N. lat. and 97° 05' W. long. The maximum total catch rate including the three shrimp species was 403 lb/hr in 16 fm at 26° 04' N. lat. and 96° 59' W. long.

Week 1 Results