SEAMAP Real-time Plots for the year 2024

Week 5

Below is the fifth preliminary data summary for the 2024 SEAMAP Summer Shrimp/Groundfish Survey in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This week's summary includes sampling from July 8-10 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 highest catch rate of pink shrimp was 0.14 lb/hr in 39 fm at 27° 30' N. lat. and 84° 04' W. long. The maximum total catch rate including the three shrimp species was 727 lb/hr in 31 fm at 26° 40' N. lat. and 83° 27' W. long.

Week 5 Results