{"id":6664,"date":"2026-04-15T12:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/?page_id=6664"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:47:47","slug":"integrating-biotelemetry-and-hydroacoustic-data","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/integrating-biotelemetry-and-hydroacoustic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating Biotelemetry and Hydroacoustic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Integrating Biotelemetry and Hydroacoustic Data to Estimate the Abundance of the Fall Spawning Run of Atlantic Sturgeon in the Marshyhope Creek-Nanticoke River System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data Link:\u00a0https:\/\/ zenodo. org\/ doi\/ 10. 5281\/ zenodo. 10960943<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Institution<\/strong><\/td>LMRCSC, UMCES<\/td><\/tr>
Principal Investigator<\/strong><\/td>David Secor | secor@umces.edu<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Funding Agency\/Contract #<\/strong><\/td>National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Species Recovery Grants to States Program (Grant Number NA22NMF4720107;NOAA Office of Education Educational Partnership Program (EPP; Award Number A16SEC4810007)<\/td><\/tr>
Collection Start Date<\/strong><\/td>8\/15\/2020<\/td><\/tr>
Objectives of Data Collection Effort<\/strong><\/td>Estimate spawning run size for Marshyhope-Nanticoke River Atlantic sturgeon spawners for two fall spawning seasons (2020 and 2021).<\/td><\/tr>
Collection End Date<\/strong><\/td>10\/30\/2021<\/td><\/tr>
Data Collectors Identifying Numbers<\/strong><\/td>Gill-net sampling was conducted under Scientific Research Permit 20314-01<\/td><\/tr>
Ship or Other Platform Name<\/strong><\/td>N\/A<\/td><\/tr>
Geographic Location [Latitude(s)\/longitude(s)]<\/strong><\/td>Federalsburg, MD : \\(38.691126, -75.773296\\)<\/td><\/tr>
Units<\/strong><\/td>Numbers (count)<\/td><\/tr>
Data Parameters<\/strong><\/td>run anundance, transition probabilities, recruitment probabilities<\/td><\/tr>
Precision<\/strong><\/td>95% Credible Intervals<\/td><\/tr>
Observation Methodology<\/strong><\/td>Side-scan sonar, Acoustic telemetry<\/td><\/tr>
Instrument\/Gear  Identification of Description<\/strong><\/td>Edgetech 4125-P 600-\/ 1600-kHz, high-resolution, dual-frequency towfish system; array of 29 VEMCO VR2W telemetry receivers<\/td><\/tr>
Analysis Methodology<\/strong><\/td>State-space model of transition and recruitment probabilities.<\/td><\/tr>
Data Processing\/<\/strong> Reduction Methodology<\/strong><\/td>Maximum likelihood<\/td><\/tr>
Explanations of Data Quality Flags<\/strong><\/td>N\/A<\/td><\/tr>
Citations of Relevant Publications and Grey Literature<\/strong><\/td>Coleman, N., D. Fox, A. Horne, N.J. Hostetter, J. Madsen, M. O Brien, I. Park, C. Stence, D. Secor. 2024. Spawning run estimates for an extremely small population of Atlantic sturgeon in the Marshyhope Creek-Nanticoke River system, Chesapeake Bay. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 2024;16:e10292.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Program, Project, or Expedition Name: Integrating Biotelemetry and Hydroacoustic Data to Estimate the Abundance of the Fall Spawning Run of Atlantic Sturgeon in the Marshyhope Creek-Nanticoke River System Data Link:\u00a0https:\/\/ zenodo. org\/ doi\/ 10. 5281\/ zenodo. 10960943 Institution LMRCSC, UMCES Principal Investigator David Secor | secor@umces.edu Funding Agency\/Contract # National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)…Read more Integrating Biotelemetry and Hydroacoustic Data<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-6664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/lmrcsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}