SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2022

Week 3

Below is the third preliminary data summary for the 2022 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from July 21 – August 10 by NOAA Fisheries 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 brown shrimp was 80.8 lb/hr in 17 fm at 26° 18' N. lat. and 96° 57' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 22.4 lb/hr in 5 fm at 28° 21' N. lat. and 96° 21' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 21.9 lb/hr in 8 fm at 26° 26' N. lat. and 97° 12' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 6,052 lb/hr in 15 fm at 27° 59' N. lat. and 83° 24' W. long.

Week 3 Results