SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2023
Week 2
Below is the second preliminary data summary for the 2023 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from June 19-22 by Mississippi and Alabama on the vessel Tommy Munro and from June 15-26 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 75.6 lb/hr in 23 fm at 29° 38' N. lat. and 88° 29' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 61.7 lb/hr in 7 fm at 30° 13' N. lat. and 88° 14' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 34.1 lb/hr in 10 fm at 29° 34' N. lat. and 84° 44' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 1,501 lb/hr in 23 fm at 28° 09' N. lat. and 83° 59' W. long. Back to 2023
