SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2021

Week 2

Attached is the second preliminary data summary for the 2021 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 16-24 by Florida on the vessel Tommy Munro. 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 pink shrimp was 13.4 lb/hr in 13 fm at 27° 01' N. lat. and 83° 17' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 960 lb/hr in 15 fm at 26° 54' N. lat. and 83° 26' W. long.

Week 2 Results