Identification_Information:
  Citation:
    Citation_Information:
      Originator:
        Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
        (SCCWRP)
      Publication_Date: 20050201
      Publication_Time: 12000000
      Title: 2003 Bight03 Coastal Ecology Station Occupation
      Edition: 1.0
      Publication_Information:
        Publication_Place: Costa Mesa, California
        Publisher:
          Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
          (SCCWRP)
      Online_Linkage:
        http://www.sccwrp.org/data/2003_bight_survey.html  [Download this Data with Associated Data Files]
  Description:
    Abstract:
      The Southern California Bight (SCB; Figure I-1),
      an open embayment in the coast between Point
      Conception and Cape Colnett (south of Ensenada),
      Baja California, is an important and unique
      ecological resource.  The SCB is a transitional
      area that is influenced by currents from cold,
      temperate ocean waters from the north and warm,
      tropical waters from the south.  In addition, the
      SCB has a complex topography, with offshore
      islands, submarine canyons, ridges and basins,
      which provide a variety of habitats.  The mixing
      of currents and the diverse habitats in the SCB
      allow for the coexistence of a broad spectrum of
      species, including more than 500 species of fish
      and several thousand species of invertebrates.
      The SCB is also a major migration route, with
      marine bird and mammal populations ranking among
      the most diverse in north temperate waters.  The
      coastal zone of the SCB is a substantial economic
      resource.  Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbor is the
      largest commercial port in the United States, and
      San Diego Harbor is home to one of the largest US
      Naval facilities in the country.  More than 100
      million people visit southern California beaches
      and coastal areas annually, bringing an estimated
      $9B into the economy.  Recreational activities
      include diving, swimming, surfing, and boating,
      with about 40,000 pleasure boats docked in 13
      coastal marinas within the region (NRC 1990).
      Recreational fishing brings in more than $500M per
      year.  The SCB is one of the most densely
      populated coastal regions in the country, which
      creates stress upon its marine environment.
      Nearly 20 million people inhabit coastal Southern
      California, a number that is expected to increase
      another 20% by 2010 (NRC 1990).  Population growth
      generally results in conversion of open land into
      non-permeable surfaces.  More than 75% of southern
      Californian bays and estuaries have already been
      dredged and filled for conversion into harbors and
      marinas (Horn and Allen 1985).  This hardening of
      the coast increases the rate of runoff and can
      impact water quality through addition of sediment,
      toxic chemicals, pathogens and nutrients to the
      ocean.  Besides the impacts of land conversion,
      the SCB is already home to fifteen municipal
      wastewater treatment facilities, eight power
      generating stations, 10 industrial treatment
      facilities, and 18 oil platforms that discharge to
      the open coast.  Each year, local, state, and
      federal agencies spend in excess of $31M to
      monitor the environmental quality of natural
      resources in the SCB (Schiff et al 2001).  At
      least 75% of this monitoring is associated with
      National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
      (NPDES) permits and is intended to assess
      compliance of waste discharge with the California
      Ocean Plan and the federal Clean Water Act, which
      set water quality standards for effluent and
      receiving waters.  Some of this information has
      played a significant role in management decisions
      in the SCB.  While these monitoring programs have
      provided important information, they were designed
      to evaluate impacts near individual discharges.
      Today, resource managers are being encouraged to
      develop management strategies for the entire SCB.
      To accomplish this task, they need
      regionally-based information to assess cumulative
      impacts of contaminant inputs and to evaluate
      relative risk among different types of stresses.
      It is difficult to use existing data to evaluate
      regional issues because the monitoring was
      designed to be site-specific and is limited to
      specific geographic areas.  The monitoring
      provides substantial data for some areas, but
      there is little or no data for the areas in
      between.  Beyond the spatial limitations, data
      from these programs are not easily merged to
      examine relative risk.  The parameters measured
      often differ among programs.  Even when the same
      parameters are measured, the methodologies used to
      collect the data often differ and interlaboratory
      quality assurance (QA) exercises to assess data
      comparability are rare.  Previous Regional
      Monitoring Studies  To begin addressing these
      concerns, there have been two previous regional
      monitoring efforts.  The first regional monitoring
      survey in 1994, called the Southern California
      Bight Pilot Project (SCBPP), was a compilation of
      12 agencies that cooperatively sampled 261 sites
      along the continental shelf between Point
      Conception and the United States/Mexico border.
      The second regional monitoring survey, called the
      Southern California Bight 1998 Regional Monitoring
      Project (Bight98), was comprised of 64 agencies
      that cooperatively sampled 416 sites between Point
      Conception and Punta Banda, Mexico.  In both
      surveys, assessments were made of water quality,
      sediment contamination, the status of biological
      resources and species diversity, and the presence
      of marine debris in depths of 10 to 200m, with
      some special emphasis in areas of anthropogenic
      inputs such as large publicly owned treatment
      works (POTWs) or large river and creek mouths.
      However, Bight98 extended what was done in 1994
      by adding additional habitats such as offshore
      islands and inshore areas like bays/harbors, as
      well as additional areas of anthropogenic inputs
      such as marinas, ports, and small POTWs.
      Moreover, a regional evaluation of shoreline water
      quality was added in 1998 that provided our first
      evaluation of the swimmability of southern
      California beaches during dry and wet weather.
      Benefits derived from both the SCBPP and Bight98
      also included the development of new useful
      technical tools that could only be developed with
      regional data sets and participation by multiple
      organizations.   For example, the project produced
      iron-normalization curves for the SCB, allowing
      distinction between natural and anthropogenic
      contributions of metals in sediments (Schiff and
      Weisberg 1998).  A Benthic Response Index was
      developed that integrates complex benthic infaunal
      data into an easily interpreted form that
      describes the degree of perturbation at a site
      (Bergen et al. 1998).  Newer, cheaper
      microbiological methods were tested and evaluated
      alongside traditional microbial measurement
      methods and now have been accepted by both the
      state health agencies for routine shoreline
      monitoring (ref).  Bight98 also improved the
      comparability among the major laboratories in the
      SCB as a result of the quality assurance and
      quality control (QA/QC) laboratory
      intercalibration exercises for chemistry and
      microbiology.  The project also produced a series
      of manuals containing standardized field,
      laboratory and data management activities that
      increased continuity of data and data reporting
      among participants, even after the regional
      monitoring surveys were completed.  2003 Survey
      The proposed Southern California Bight 2003
      Regional Monitoring Project (Bight03) is a
      continuation of the successful cooperative
      regional-scale monitoring begun in southern
      California during the 1990s.  Bight03 builds
      upon the previous successes and expands on the
      1998 survey by including new participants,
      sampling more habitats, and measuring more
      parameters or using new methods.  [Number]
      organizations, including international and
      volunteer organizations, have agreed to
      participate (Table I-1).  The inclusion of
      multiple participants, many of them new to
      regional monitoring, provides several benefits.
      Cooperative interactions among many organizations
      with different perspectives and interests,
      including a combination of regulators and
      dischargers, ensures that an appropriate set of
      regional-scale questions will be addressed by the
      study.  The additional resources brought by
      numerous participants also expands the number of
      habitats and indicators that will be sampled.
      Sampling for Bight03 will include all of the
      areas sampled in 1998, plus a new focus on
      nearshore habitats (coastal lagoons) and offshore
      habitats (inner continental slopes and basins).
      Several new technologies will be brought to bear
      in Bight03 including remote sensing from
      satellite, aerial, and land-based platforms, new
      microbial genetic and phenotypic source tracking
      techniques, and radiodating of sediments to
      determine age and accumulation of chemicals in
      sediments.
    Purpose:
      The overall goal of the coastal ecology component
      of Bight03 is to assess the condition of the
      bottom environment and the health of the
      biological resources in the SCB.  To accomplish
      this goal, Bight03 will focus on two primary
      objectives:      1.Estimate the extent and
      magnitude of ecological change in the SCB,
      2.Determine the mass balance of pollutants that
      currently reside within the SCB.  The first
      objective, estimating the amount of area (i.e.,
      number of acres) in the SCB that ecological
      conditions differ from reference conditions, is a
      departure from traditional approaches to
      environmental monitoring, which generally focus on
      estimating average condition.  Estimating the
      areal extent of ecological change offers several
      advantages.  First, it provides a more direct
      assessment of status.  For instance, identifying
      that the average concentration of dissolved oxygen
      in the Bight is 6.7 ppm provides less useful
      information for environmental managers than does
      identifying what percentage of the area in the
      Bight fails to meet water quality standards.  A
      second advantage of estimating areal extent
      concerns trend detection.  If conditions in the
      Bight change over time such that some areas
      improve and others worsen, the average condition
      might not change.  By estimating the areal extent
      of alteration, we will be better able to describe
      these changes.  There are two subobjectives within
      the areal extent and magnitude objective.  The
      first subobjective is to determine if the areal
      extent and magnitude vary among geographic
      regions. If we answer this question, then managers
      can determine if specific areas are in worse
      condition than others, such as areas near
      anthropogenic inputs versus those areas distant
      from inputs.  Therefore, Bight03 will compare
      condition among 11 geographic areas of interest
      (Table II-1).  These subpopulations of our study
      area were selected to represent a range of natural
      and potentially affected habitats, and include all
      of the habitats sampled in 1998.  There are three
      new habitats to be sampled in Bight03.  The first
      two are located offshore of previously sampled
      habitats; the upper continental slope (200-500m)
      and the lower slope and inner basin (500-1000m).
      The break in deep water strata is a reflection of
      an ecotone between upper slope and lower slope
      biological communities.  The third habitat is
      inshore of previous sampled habitats and includes
      coastal lagoons.  Comparison of the relative
      condition among strata not only provides
      information about the geographic distribution of
      impacts, it also allows comparison of relative
      risk from a variety of point and non-point source
      discharges.  Comparison of conditions may be
      conducted by comparing the extent of area
      exceeding a threshold of concern or by comparison
      of mean condition.  The second subobjective within
      the areal extent and magnitude objective is
      assessing the relationship between biological
      responses and contaminant exposure. Such
      associations provide the information necessary for
      risk assessment, and for developing efficient
      regional strategies for protecting the environment
      by identifying the predominant types of stress in
      the SCB ecosystem.  Therefore, this subobjective
      will be accomplished by simultaneously collecting
      numerous measures of biological response,
      contaminant exposure and habitat condition (Table
      II-2) to better identify when exposure has reached
      a level of concern.  Measuring multiple indicators
      also permits us to identify the most likely type
      of exposure leading to biological response.  The
      second primary objective will create a mass
      balance of contaminants in the SCB.  This
      objective recognizes that local monitoring
      programs only address a portion of what is
      discharged to the SCB and that contaminant inputs
      to the SCB are cumulative both among sources and
      over time.  Ultimately, both environmental
      managers and the public want to know what fraction
      of the contaminants that are discharged remain in
      the SCB and what fraction leaves the SCB.
      Therefore, Bight03 will create an inventory of
      contaminants that reside in the SCB in sediment,
      water column, and biological compartments.  The
      total mass of contaminants in these compartments
      will be compared to estimates of mass discharged
      from land based activities.  Understanding how
      much mass is in the SCB will require some new
      measurements including measurements of not just
      sediment chemistry, but estimates of accumulation
      rates in sediments, as well as new measurements in
      the water column.
    Supplemental_Information:
      The full text of the Field Methods Document may be
      obtained from
      http://www.sccwrp.org/regional/03bight/03docs.html
  Time_Period_of_Content:
    Time_Period_Information:
      Range_of_Dates/Times:
        Beginning_Date: 20030714
        Ending_Date: 20040301
    Currentness_Reference: ground condition
  Status:
    Progress: COMPLETE
    Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As Needed
  Spatial_Domain:
    Description_of_Geographic_Extent: Southern California Bight
    Bounding_Coordinates:
      West_Bounding_Coordinate: -120.60963
      East_Bounding_Coordinate: -117.11617
      North_Bounding_Coordinate: 34.46529
      South_Bounding_Coordinate: 32.55081
  Keywords:
    Theme:
      Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
      Theme_Keyword: Coastal Ecology Data
    Place:
      Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
      Place_Keyword: Southern California Bight
  Access_Constraints: None
  Use_Constraints: None
  Point_of_Contact:
    Contact_Information:
      Contact_Person_Primary:
        Contact_Person: Information Manager
        Contact_Organization:
          Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
          (SCCWRP)
      Contact_Position: Information Manager
      Contact_Address:
        Address_Type: physical address
        Address: 3535 Harbor Blvd., Suite 110
        City: Costa Mesa
        State_or_Province: California
        Postal_Code: 92626
        Country: USA
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: 714.755.3200
      Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 714.438.1016
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: im_contact@sccwrp.org
      Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
      Contact_Instructions: email preferred
  Data_Set_Credit: Bight03 Participants
  Native_Data_Set_Environment: Microsoft Access Version 2000
Data_Quality_Information:
  Attribute_Accuracy:
    Attribute_Accuracy_Report: Coordinates accurate to within 100 ft
  Logical_Consistency_Report:
    The tables may be related by the StationID field
    or the SampleID field where applicable.
  Completeness_Report:
    The following stations were abandoned for Trawls.
    StationID FailureReason Comments 4010 Obstructions
    Station is under a marina, we couldn't get within
    420 m of the site. 4016 Comment Required
    Permission not granted by Camp Pendleton to trawl
    in harbor because of underwater cables 4018
    Obstructions Cannot get within 100 m of site it is
    located under the docks in Alamitos Bay 4020
    Comment Required Depth along trawl track >10% 4022
    Rocky Bottom Too rocky to trawl 4023 Rocky Bottom
    Three fathometer runs each showed rocky bottom.
    4024 No Failure site was abandoned because near
    canyon.  The boat bathymetery was up and down.
    4044 Obstructions Inside sub base, Can't access
    4052 Obstructions Station located on land in
    Marina. Can sample benthics within 100 m, however,
    marina channel is to narrow to safely trawl. 4059
    Torn Net Torn net due to obstructions on ocean
    floor. 4067 Torn Net Torn net due to obstructions
    on ocean floor. 4069 Kelp Bed Due to kelp beds
    cannot approach within 100m of coords 4076
    Obstructions Station within San Diego Yacht Club
    Marina. Too narrow to trawl 4084 Obstructions
    Ships, piers in navy site, no clear track, moving
    station 100m, still no room for trawl 4089 Rocky
    Bottom Too rocky to trawl 4093 Not within 10% of
    Target Site Depth 10% depth rule could not be met
    4103 Rocky Bottom Three fathometer runs each
    showed rocky bottom. 4108 Obstructions Next to
    Broadway pier.  Not enough room to trawl. No clear
    trawl track. Depth near station varies by more
    than 10% 4111 Rocky Bottom Three fathometer runs
    each showed rocky bottom. 4126 No Failure Abandon
    site due to coral reef. 4139 Obstructions Site
    located on the inside of the south Ventura Harbor
    jetty.Both grabs and trawls unsafe due to boat
    traffic and public recreation. 4140 Obstructions
    In the middle of the Bay Club Hotel Marina 4146
    Irregular Bottom depth differential greater than
    10% and hump in trawl line. 4147 Obstructions Net
    torn; board broken on first trawl 4167
    Obstructions Doors, lotek, & net lost due to
    obstructions on ocean floor. 4169 Fouled Net Net
    and boards lost, snagged on rocks. 4175 Kelp Bed
    Kelp Bed, heavy oil slick 4178 Obstructions
    Station on Beach could not get within 1.4 km of
    target 4185 Comment Required crab traps as cause
    of failures 4192 No Failure site is on series of
    reefs with heavy kelp. 4195 Rocky Bottom Three
    fathometer runs each showed rocky bottom. 4226
    Obstructions Hard bottom, Structure off edge of
    oil Island- Station too close to oil Island 4247
    Rocky Bottom Reef in all locations. Past
    experience with lost trawl nets on same tracks.
    Total of 6 grabs attempted with no luck. 4251 Torn
    Net Torn net due to obstructions on ocean floor.
    4266 Obstructions Obstructions/obstacles on trawl
    route bottom 4278 Rocky Bottom Net snagged on
    bottom and ripped in half 4292 Kelp Bed Kelp bed
    w/in 1/2 mi. radius around site. Depth 21 m 4297
    Fouled Net Floats crushed. Abandon station. 4301
    Comment Required High relief and crab traps 4332
    Obstructions Station is right in the midst of
    wreck alley near an old navy tower. Lg. tower-like
    obstruction seen in mulit. Approaches to the
    station. 4358 Rocky Bottom Too rocky to trawl 4375
    Comment Required 1 hour spent attempting grabs
    with no luck. Reef throughout area. No good trawl
    tracks found. Nets lost in area on previous
    surveys. 4378 Rocky Bottom Unable to locate
    trawlable track free of rocky outcropping. 4379
    Rocky Bottom Three fathometer runs each showed
    rocky bottom. 4382 Comment Required Based on
    investigation of site during benthic sampling, it
    was determined that site is outside depth limit of
    stratum.  Unable to locate trawl track within 100
    m  of target coordinates and within 10% of the 500
    m stratum depth limit.   4386 Obstructions Station
    is proximate to the dock, could get to within 90 m
    but with SW wind and boat traffic was unsafe.  The
    captain made the decision that it was not safe to
    trawl this site. 4388 Rocky Bottom Rocky bottom
    4424 Obstructions On beach- couldn't get within
    240 m of target, also vessel was directly offshore
    of Alamitos Bay fuel dock. 4425 Rocky Bottom Three
    fathometer runs each showed rocky bottom. 4442
    Comment Required Station depth during a 1.3 m tide
    is 2.1 m. Unable to find a 3.0 m depth within 100
    m of station. Also, station is located 50 m into a
    No Powerboat Zone. 4510 No Failure " bottom was
    full of metal debris which ripped up the net."
    4512 Rocky Bottom Too rocky to trawl 4575 Rocky
    Bottom Snagged and tore net 1ft diameter rocks in
    net  The Following Stations were abandoned for
    grabs: StationID FailureReason Comments 4013
    Comment Required No Access 4014 Poor Closure Rocks
    & hard clay prevented jaw from closing correctly.
    4016 Comment Required Permission not granted by
    Camp Pendleton to sample in harbor 4044 Comment
    Required Inside sub base can't access 4046 Comment
    Required Salinity < 19 PSU.  Equipment type used -
    YSI 4054 Rocky Bottom Penetration could not be
    obtained. 4078 Comment Required Salinity < 19 PSU.
    Equipment type used - YSI 4081 Comment Required
    On Land 4082 Rocky Bottom Cobble & rocks
    interfered with the proper closure to the jaw.
    4112 Comment Required Target coordinates on land,
    closest water is 0.1 mile away 4114 Comment
    Required Too shallow to reach by boat, within
    shallow water habitat 4136 Comment Required
    Salinity <19 ppt 4139 Obstructions Site located on
    the inside of the south Ventura Harbor jetty.Both
    grabs and trawls unsafe due to boat traffic and
    public recreation. 4174 Comment Required Salinity
    < 19 PSU.  Equipment type used - YSI 4175 Kelp Bed
    Kelp Bed, heavy oil slick 4176 Comment Required
    Salinity <19 ppt 4180 Comment Required To shallow
    (2.5 m) depth at abandonment.  Could not get
    closer than 0.337 nm (624 m)  to site 4225 No
    Failure Coordinates on land, offset 8 m. Station
    abandoned due to salinity less than 19 psu 4226
    Obstructions Cannot sample station. Navagation
    hazard. Cable and pipeline crossing area. 4245
    Comment Required No Access 4247 Rocky Bottom Reef
    in all locations. Past experience with lost trawl
    nets on same tracks. Total of 6 grabs attempted
    with no luck. 4289 Comment Required No Access 4292
    Kelp Bed Kelp bed w/in 1/2 mile radius of site.
    4293 Rocky Bottom Entire channel is rocky bottom,
    unable to sample 4302 Comment Required Salinity <
    19 PSU.  Equipment type used - YSI 4310 Poor
    Closure Hard clay prevented the jaw from
    penetrating and/or closing. 4334 Rocky Bottom Poor
    or no penetration occurred at all sites. 4353
    Comment Required Harbor seal sanctuary; access
    limited to canoes 4372 Comment Required Too
    shallow. Closest to site 2.365 nm (491 m). Depth
    at abandonment 3.0 m (edge of channel) 4373
    Comment Required No Access 4375 Poor Closure 7
    grabs attempted. None good. Reef, cobble and rock
    in all locations. Trawl tracks no good either,
    nets lost in area on previous occasions. 4382
    Comment Required Site outside depth limit of
    stratum.  Unable to reoccupy within 100 m of
    target coordinates and within 10% of the 500 m
    stratum depth limit 4387 No Failure Site located
    on land. Closest possible sampling site over 100m
    from nominal location. 4388 Rocky Bottom Rocky
    bottom 4389 Comment Required steep angle rocky
    bottom 96 m nominal  Abandoned: met grab attempt
    requirement 4422 Comment Required Salinity <19 ppt
    4442 Comment Required Station depth at a +1.3 m
    tide is 2.1 m. A 3.0 m depth within 100 m of
    station could not be found. Also station is
    located app. 50m into a no power boat zone. 4468
    Comment Required Salinity < 19 PSU.  Equipment
    type used - YSI 4508 Rocky Bottom Station on land.
    Rocks and terrestrial debris prevented the jaw
    from closing. 4528 Rocky Bottom No penetration
    occurred at all sites.  Station on land. 4532 >
    200m Station >140 meters out of water 4564 Comment
    Required Salinity < 19 PSU.  Equipment type used -
    YSI 4728 Rocky Bottom 9 attempts across channel in
    vicinity, none successful due to poor closure.
    4948 Rocky Bottom Rocky bottom caused constant
    poor closure/zero recovery 4999 Comment Required
    Salinity <19 ppt 5336 Comment Required Salinity
    <19 ppt 5723 No Failure Salinity below 20psu 5731
    No Failure Salinity below 20psu 5763 No Failure
    Upstream of 5731, salinity below 20psu
  Lineage:
    Methodology:
      Methodology_Type: Field
      Methodology_Identifier:
        Methodology_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
      Methodology_Description:
        Every effort should be taken to ensure that any
        particular trawl track passes the station
        coordinates at a distance of no greater than 100 m
        (200 m for Island stratum), and that the trawl
        course varies no more than +/- 10% of the target
        depth (Figure 2). The trawl track can be plotted
        prior to sampling so that a successive series of
        waypoint locations along the track can be
        obtained. These coordinates can then be entered
        into the DGPS and then retrieved at the time of
        sampling to ensure that the vessel maintains its
        course along the trawl track.
      Methodology_Type: Field
      Methodology_Type: Grabs
      Methodology_Type: Trawls
      Methodology_Description:
        A.  Purpose  The purpose of trawl sampling is to
        obtain data on the abundance, biomass, diversity,
        and disease prevalence of demersal fish and
        invertebrate assemblages.  It is also used to
        collect fish and invertebrates for tissue
        contaminant analysis.  This information is useful
        in characterizing possible anthropogenic effects
        on demersal fish and invertebrate populations.
        Mearns and Allen (1978) provide a comprehensive
        descriptionX of how small otter trawls should be
        designed and used for conducting biological
        surveys in coastal waters.    B.  Sampling Effort
        A total of 268 trawl stations will be sampled
        during the survey.  Information regarding trawl
        stations and the corresponding parameters that
        will be sampled by each organization at each of
        these sites are listed in Table 1 and Appendix 1.
        C.  Collection Permits  Prior to collecting fish
        and invertebrate specimens in the field, each
        organization must contact their local office of
        the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG).
        The caller will be asked for his or her name,
        scientific collector's permit number, date, time,
        and area of sampling, type of gear to be used,
        vessel size, color, CF number (or documentation),
        number of persons in party, and organisms targeted
        for collection.  This information can also be
        faxed to the local CDFG office prior to sampling.
        Both the permit and the permit holder must be
        onboard during sampling and it must be presented
        to any CDFG warden, or personnel who request to
        see it. The phone//FAX numbers of the local
        offices of the CDFG are as follows: San Diego,
        (858) 467-4201/(858) 467-4299; Los Alamitos, (562)
        342-7108/(562) 342-7139.    D.  Otter-Trawl
        Specification  A semiballoon otter trawl (Figure
        4) will be used to collect epibenthic
        invertebrates and demersal fish.  Net dimensions
        are as follows:  7.6-m headrope (25 ft); 8.8-m
        footrope (29 ft); 3.8-cm (1.5 in) body mesh; and a
        1.3-cm cod-end mesh (0.5 in).  This net will have
        22.9-m (75 ft) long bridles made of 1.0-1.6 cm
        (3/8 to 5/8 in) diameter rope (e.g., Samson
        braid).  Typical otter boards (doors) will have a
        width of 76 cm (30 in), height of 50 cm (20 in),
        and a suggested weight of 16 kg (35 lb) (Figure
        5).   Slight deviations (< 10%) from the
        dimensions are acceptable.  The door chains should
        be 5-mm (3/16 in) in diameter and should have the
        following numbers of links:  front top -- 12;
        front bottom -- 11; back top -- 17; back bottom --
        16.  The actual specifications of how any trawl
        door is set up may depend on the manufacturer of
        the otter trawl, but the user of the equipment
        should be sure to follow the factory recommended
        set-up procedures to ensure that the net fishes
        appropriately in the field.    The Bight'03 survey
        will require two additions to the trawl
        specifications: 1) Non-crushable floats are
        required for any nets used to trawl deeper than
        300 m; and 2) Lotek archival tags will be attached
        to one of the otter trawl boards to measure water
        temperature, depth and time of the individual
        trawls.  Once started, the archival tag will run
        until its memory is full (approximately 12 hours),
        at which point it will shut off.  The memory is
        non-volatile, but will be lost when the tag is
        started the next time.  To reduce the risk of
        losing data, the tag should be downloaded at the
        end of each field day.    FIGURE 4.   Semi-balloon
        otter trawl recommended for marine receiving-water
        monitoring programs in southern California
        (modified from Mearns and Allen, 1978)    FIGURE
        5.  	View of an otter board of a semiballoon otter
        trawl with recommended numbers of chain (5-mm or
        3/16 in. diameter) links (modified from Mearns and
        Allen, 1978)      E.  Trawl Data Flow and
        Responsibilities  Unlike benthic infauna and
        sediment chemistry, the collection of trawl data
        (identifications, measurements, etc.) is largely a
        field activity for which there is little
        opportunity to clarify or correct errors.
        Therefore, it is important that the field
        personnel appreciate the ultimate fate of the data
        records they are creating and assure that their
        field records support subsequent steps in the data
        creation process.  For example, specimens
        collected as vouchers or as FID specimens must be
        labeled under the same name as recorded on the
        field data sheet. This allows these specimens to
        be unambiguously associated with the data records
        for purposes of data QC or revision.  In addition,
        each organization conducting trawling must
        complete all stages of sample analysis (lab Ids,
        voucher confirmation, data sheet revisions, etc.)
        prior to submitting data and voucher specimens to
        the project for further review.  The flow of data
        from the trawl to final data set and the parties
        responsible for completion of each stage is
        summarized in Figure 6.
    Process_Step:
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        The Cruise Leader is responsible for collecting
        all of the required information associated with
        each station occupation and each grab sampling
        event.  A software application has been developed
        to facilitate the capture and entry of these data
        (Section 6).  Alternatively, paper data forms may
        be used (Appendix 6).  The required station
        occupation information includes:  	Station ID
        	Date 	Time of day 	Agency code 	Vessel name
        	System used for Navigation 	Weather and sea
        conditions 	Salinity (at sites in the Estuary
        stratum) 	Station fail code (if site is
        abandoned)  The required grab event information
        includes: 	Time of day for event (when grab on
        bottom) 	Latitude and Longitude at time of event
        (when grab on bottom) 	Depth of water (when grab
        on bottom) Every effort should be taken to ensure
        that any particular trawl track passes the station
        coordinates at a distance of no greater than 100 m
        (200 m for Island stratum), and that the trawl
        course varies no more than +/- 10% of the target
        depth (Figure 2).  The trawl track can be plotted
        prior to sampling so that a successive series of
        waypoint locations along the track can be
        obtained.  These coordinates can then be entered
        into the DGPS and then retrieved at the time of
        sampling to ensure that the vessel maintains its
        course along the trawl track.
      Process_Date: 20030415
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      Longitude_Resolution: .0001
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      Ellipsoid_Name: Geodedic Reference System 80
      Semi-major_Axis: 6378137
      Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio:
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        4.2.2.1 Depth Datum Name:
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      Contact_Position: Information Manager
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        City: Costa Mesa
        State_or_Province: California
        Postal_Code: 92626
        Country: USA
      Contact_Voice_Telephone: 714.755.3200
      Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 714.438.1016
      Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: im_contact@sccwrp.org
      Hours_of_Service: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday Through Friday
      Contact_Instructions: email preferred
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        Address: 7171 Fenwick Lane
        City: Westmininster
        State_or_Province: California
        Postal_Code: 92683
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