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Status and Trends 2007 Report - Florida’s Inshore and Nearshore Species

THE SHORT REPORT 2007

The short report contains the 2007 Status and Trends Report for six of Florida’s Inshore and Nearshore Species. The report's contents include an executive summary, introduction, methods and materials, trend analysis for species, individual species accounts for finfish and shellfish, literature cited.

The reports are listed by species and may be downloaded as PDF files.

The individual Species Accounts for FINFISH include the following species: red drum, spotted seatrout, snook.

Visit the Finfish Species Account Section to download individual species reports.

The individual Species Accounts for SHELLFISH include the following species:  blue crab, stone crab, lobster.

Visit the Invertebrate Species Account Section to download individual species reports.

SPECIES ACCOUNTS

The purpose of the species accounts is to provide interested readers with summaries of the biology and fisheries for particular species. In this short report, six managed species or groups were included in this section. A long report is compiled every other year and it includes accounts for 48 managed species/species groups. The species accounts provide available: 1) life history information such as distribution, growth, reproduction, and food habits; 2) the geographic distribution of statewide landings in 2006 and the annual landings by coasts and by the commercial and recreational sectors during 1982–2006; 3) trends in commercial landings rates (1992–2006), recreational total-catch rates (1991–2006), and fishery-independent monitoring catch rates (1996 or 1997 to 2006); 4) trends in observed disease and developmental abnormalities; and 5) results of recent stock assessments. In some cases when the fishery-independent monitoring data are sparse, there are no graphs of these data in the species accounts but the data are listed in Appendix A.

The numbers of observations from the commercial or recreational fisheries and from the fishery-independent monitoring program listed in the Appendix will occasionally differ from those numbers found on the catch-rate graphs shown in the species accounts. The number of observations listed in the Appendix is the number of observations in the data for that specific species or group. The number of observations on the catch rate graphs can be: 1) lower if there are missing variable values associated with some of the catch data used in the standardization analysis or 2) higher if the data used in the standardization include more than just the records for a species. The latter occurs for the recreational analyses when the assumed targeted species is at an aggregate level, e.g. drums, trout, or jacks.

The following table provides the legend for the figures showing the geographic distribution of landings in 2006 for the commercial fisheries by county (in pounds) and the recreational fishery by sub region (in numbers). There were five recreational sub regions used: the Northwest, Escambia through Dixie Counties; the Southwest, Levy through Collier Counties; the Keys, Monroe County; Southeast, Dade through St. Lucie Counties; and Northeast, Indian River through Nassau Counties.