SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2024

Week 4

Below is the fourth 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 25 – July 2 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 80.9 lb/hr in 39 fm at 28° 08' N. lat. and 93° 42' W. long. The highest catch rate of white shrimp was 55.6 lb/hr in 8 fm at 29° 23' N. lat. and 94° 19' W. long. The highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 2.5 lb/hr in 14 fm at 29° 26' N. lat. and 88° 47' W. long. The maximum total catch rate including the three shrimp species was 613 lb/hr in 9 fm at 29° 03' N. lat. and 94° 31' W. long.

Week 4 Results