1996

Two visually based methods for monitoring coral reef fishes

Bohnsack, J. A. (ed.)

This short paper, prepared after the second year of the Fish Survey Project, overviews the RDT and the more quantitative Stationary Sampling Technique. The advantages to the REEF RDT are discussed, including the information provided on fisheries-independent species and its simplicity. The author concludes that both methods can be used to answer a wide variety of monitoring and scientific questions, although each has advantages and disadvantages. Summary posted online at http://www.epa.gov/owow/oceans/coral/symposium/bohnsack.html.

In A Coral Reef Symposium on Practical, Reliable, Low Cost Monitoring Methods for Assessing the Biota and Habitat Conditions of Coral Reefs, Jan. 26-27, 1995. M.P. Crosby, G.R. Gibson, and K.W. Potts (eds.). Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
1996
Program: 
Volunteer Fish Survey Project

1993

Research applications of volunteer generated coral reef fish surveys

Schmitt, E. F., B. X. Semmens, and K. M. Sullivan.

This report is the first publication of the RDT, and was initially given at the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute meeting in Spring 1994.

The Nature Conservancy, Florida and Caribbean Marine Conservation Science Center, University of Miami. Miami, Fl.
15pp.
1993
Program: 
Volunteer Fish Survey Project

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