SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2022

Week 4

Below is the fourth preliminary data summary for the 2022 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from August 15 - 22 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 154.0 lb/hr in 37 fm at 29° 09' N. lat. and 88° 52' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 24.5 lb/hr in 10 fm at 29° 09' N. lat. and 93° 34' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 0.5 lb/hr in 12 fm at 28° 46' N. lat. and 94° 38' W. long. The maximum total catch rate excluding the three shrimp species was 839 lb/hr in 11 fm at 28° 57' N. lat. and 93° 48' W. long.

Week 4 Results