Volume 69
A Remote Video Survey of the Fish Communities from Deep Water Mesophotic Reef Habitats in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Authors
Beyea, R.T, and S.T. Szdelmayer Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2016
Pages: 193 - 194
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty eigth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Grand Cayman
Country: Cayman Islands
Abstract
The Pinnacle reefs are deep water (60 - 110 m) natural rock reefs that project up to 20 m from the seafloor on the edge of the continental shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico. These mesophotic reef habitats are home to a diverse reef fish community. In September and October 2014, a stratified random ROV video survey was used to count and identify reef fish species from three reef categories: low (0 - 3 m), medium (4 - 10 m) and high (> 10 m) vertical relief, and from two habitat types: reef top and reef slope.