{"id":617,"date":"2020-01-22T18:28:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/?p=617"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T14:16:03","slug":"october-2017-c-bass-the-pipeline-southwest-of-the-florida-middle-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/october-2017-c-bass-the-pipeline-southwest-of-the-florida-middle-grounds\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2017, C-BASS &#8211; the Pipeline, Southwest of the Florida Middle Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-618 lazyload\" title=\"C-SCAMP\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scamp-300x185.png\" alt=\"C-SCAMP\" width=\"500\" height=\"309\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scamp-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scamp-1024x633.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scamp-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/scamp.png 1426w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/>The objectives for this C-BASS cruise were to complete concurrent surveys\u00a0in the Elbow with\u00a0the FL Fish &amp; Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI),\u00a0collect towed video in the newly mapped areas southwest and west of the Florida Middle Grounds, re-image transects in the Florida Middle Grounds, the Elbow, and along the Gulfstream Pipeline, and calibrate the Simrad EK60. The R\/V<em>Weatherbird II<\/em>\u00a0left port at approximately 00:30 UTC on October 11, 2017 and returned to port on October 17, 2017. Unfortunately, due to rough seas, the concurrent survey with FWRI had to be postponed until Spring 2018 but the rest of the C-BASS operations proceeded as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The C-BASS was operated in both daylight and nighttime hours, focusing mostly on small, low relief, rocky outcrops in the west and southwest Florida Middle Grounds (above). The towed video\u00a0data showed that there appears to be\u00a0fewer large schools of fish but the habitat still supported a large number of fish overall. Fish abundance\u00a0was also\u00a0lower\u00a0compared to data collected in 2013 and 2014 in the same areas.<\/p>\n<p>Calibration of the EK-60\u00a0was not completed due to poor weather conditions, but overnight multibeam mapping\u00a0throughout the week was very successful; overall we\u00a0added approximately 83 square-km of coverage with ~13 sq-km in the Elbow and ~70 sq-km in the west Florida Middle Grounds (below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-619 lazyload\" title=\"Oct. 2017 Mapping\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oct-2017-mapping-300x233.png\" alt=\"Oct. 2017 Mapping\" width=\"500\" height=\"388\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oct-2017-mapping-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oct-2017-mapping-768x595.png 768w, https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/oct-2017-mapping.png 988w\" sizes=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The objectives for this C-BASS cruise were to complete concurrent surveys\u00a0in the Elbow with\u00a0the FL Fish &amp; Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI),\u00a0collect towed video in the newly mapped areas southwest and west of the Florida Middle Grounds, re-image transects in the Florida Middle Grounds, the Elbow, and along the Gulfstream Pipeline, and calibrate the Simrad EK60. The R\/VWeatherbird II\u00a0left port at approximately 00:30 UTC on October 11, 2017 and returned to port on October 17, 2017. Unfortunately, due to rough seas, the concurrent survey with FWRI had to be postponed until Spring 2018 but the rest of the C-BASS operations proceeded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,20],"tags":[61,71,59,82,83,53],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23","category-cruise-summaries","tag-c-bass","tag-florida-middle-grounds","tag-gulfstream-pipeline","tag-multibeam-mapping","tag-simrad-ek60","tag-the-elbow"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marine.usf.edu\/scamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}