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Title: Clownfish collection log including such as depth, species, and size from coastal reefs of Ormoc Bay, Leyte, Philippines, 2012-2018 (NCEI Accession 0278890)
Abstract: This dataset contains biological and survey - biological data collected during deployments SCUBA_Pinsky_Leyte_January2015, SCUBA_Pinsky_Leyte_June2014, SCUBA_Pinsky_Leyte_June2015, and SCUBA_Pinsky_Leyte_May2016 from 2012-05-05 to 2018-04-10. These data include sex and taxon_code. The instruments used to collect these data include tracking tag. These data were collected by Malin Pinsky and Michelle Stuart of Rutgers University as part of the "RAPID: Mega-typhoon impacts on the metapopulation resilience of coral reef fishes (Reef Fish Resilience)" project. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2020-10-28.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

clownfish log

Dataset Description:
Clownfish collection log from the west coast of Leyte, the Philippines in the municipalities of Albuera (10.91667, 124.69667) and Bay Bay City (11.07611, 124.87528), 2012-2018.

For species codes, see:
Date received: 20201028
Start date: 20120505
End date: 20180410
Seanames:
West boundary: 124.555
East boundary: 124.8083
North boundary: 11.0165
South boundary: 10.6299
Observation types: biological, survey - biological
Instrument types: marine animal recording tag
Datatypes: SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - SEX, TAXONOMIC CODE
Submitter:
Submitting institution: Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office
Collecting institutions: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Contributing projects:
Platforms:
Number of observations:
Supplementary information: Acquisition Description:
Anemone surveyor:
- searches adjacent area for anemone tag (anemone could have moved a few feet since last encounter)
- records time, species, size of anemone, tag number if present
- watches anemone and counts number of fish and estimate sizes (same procedure regardless of species)
- records species of fish, estimate sizes
- adds tag after the fact if one was missing or if there was only one zip tie tag (old system tag)
- flags anemone with flagging tape that it is ready to be hunted if APCL were present.

Fish catcher:
- waits for flagging tape to indicate anemone is ready for fish capture, ok to chase fish if they fled the area
- catches all fish of desired size range and places in holding vessel adjacent to anemone
- can move on to next anemone if anemone surveyor has flagged it

Data entry was made with Excel or Google sheets, depending on the internet connection.
Data cleaning was performed in R using the tidyverse package.
Availability date:
Metadata version: 1
Keydate: 2023-05-29 04:23:14+00
Editdate: 2023-05-29 04:23:34+00