Smooth Bottom Net Trawl Fishing Gear Effect on - New England ...

NOAA/NMFS Unallied Science Project, Cooperative Agreement NA16FL2264 December 2005
<strong>Smooth</strong> <strong>Bottom</strong> <strong>Net</strong> <strong>Trawl</strong> <strong>Fishing</strong> <strong>Gear</strong> <strong>Effect</strong> on the Seabed:
Investigation of Temporal and Cumulative <strong>Effect</strong>s BKAM/CR
Figure 3.2.2.2-2 Mud Hole, Lane 1 September 2002 scours in hummocky sand
Figure 3.2.2.2-3 Door scours observed at Little Tow, Lane 1 in September 2002
Figure 3.2.2.2-4 Little Tow experimentally trawled, Lane 3 September scours
Figure 3.2.2.3-1 Wave heights recorded in the vicinity of the study sites during 2002
Figure 3.2.2.3-2 Little Tow, Lane 2 November 2002 Sand Waves and Scour
Figure 3.2.2.4-1a October 2002 grab locations in the vicinity of MH-1B
Figure 3.2.2.4-1b November 2202 grab locations along Mud Hole, Lane 1 at Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-2a October 2002 grab locations along Mud Hole, Control Lane 2 near station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-2b November 2002 grab sample locations along Mud Hole, Lane 2 near Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-3a October 2002 grab sample locations along Mud Hole, experimentally trawled
Lane 3 at Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-3b November 2002 grab sample locations along Mud Hole, experimentally
trawled Lane 3 at Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-4a October 2002 grab sample locations at Little Tow, Lane 1, Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-4b November 2002 grab sample locations at Little Tow, Lane 1, Station B
Figure 3.2.2.4-5 July 2002 pre-trawl background gear impacts at Little Tow, Control Lane 4
near Station A
Figure 3.2.3-1 2202 Mud Hole Seasonal Sediment Grain Size for Control and <strong>Trawl</strong>ed Lanes
Figure 3.2.3-2 2002 Little Tow Seasonal Sediment Grain Size for Control and <strong>Trawl</strong>ed Lanes
Figure 3.2.3-3 Mud Hole Seasonal Median Grain Size for 2002 at <strong>Trawl</strong>ed and Control Lanes
Figure 3.2.3-4 Little Tow Median Seasonal Grain Size for 2002 at <strong>Trawl</strong>ed and Control Lanes
Subsection 3.3 Video Sled Results Figures
Figure 3.3-1 Standardized number of fish observed per minute of video footage
Figure 3.3-2 Standardized number of invertebrates per minute of video footage
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