Commonly Caught Shark Species

Program, Project, or Expedition Name:

Bycatch Mitigation for Commonly Caught Shark Species in the Gulf of Mexico Reef Bottom Longline Fishery

Data Link: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southeast/fisheries-observers/gulf-mexico-reef-fish-and-shrimp-observer-program

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Institution	LMRCSC, UM-RSMAS
Principal Investigator	Halie O’Farrell | hofarrell@earth.miami.edu
Funding Agency/Contract #	N/A
Collection Start Date	N/A
Objectives of Data Collection Effort	Applied GLMs to NOAA reef fish longline observer program data to evaluate gear and environmental factors that predict shark bycatch. All data was provided by NOAA under a data access agreement. No new data was collected.
Collection End Date	N/A
Data Collectors Identifying Numbers	N/A
Ship or Other Platform Name	N/A
Geographic Location [Latitude(s)/longitude(s)]	Gulf of Mexico
Units	N/A
Data Parameters	N/A
Precision	N/A
Observation Methodology	N/A
Instrument/Gear  Identification of Description	N/A
Analysis Methodology	GLMs applied to fishery observer data.
Data Processing/ Reduction Methodology	N/A
Explanations of Data Quality Flags	N/A
Citations of Relevant Publications and Grey Literature	O’Farrell, H.B., E.A. Babcock, and K. McCarthy. 2024. Bycatch mitigation for commonly caught shark species in in the Gulf of Mexico reef bottom longline fishery. Marine And Coastal Fisheries. In press.