The purpose of this monitoring is to create a record of the present-day hardbottom fish communities in the Terra Ceia and Cockroach Bay Aquatic Preserves and continue data collection for as long as funding resources are available. This will allow for the tracking of temporal community changes related to natural and anthropogenic events.
Parameters
species occurance, abundance, noting additional nekton present
Notes
Application
These data may be used by local management entities for decision making as well as monitoring of coastal fish species and essential fish habitat.
