Meta Identifier	ASC_Efish
Type of Data	electrofishing
Originator	Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
Description	The Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission (ASC) maintains electrofishing data and survey locations in a linked Microsoft Access - ArcGIS database. Data assembled includes those collected by the ASC, NOAA Fisheries, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service crews. The database contains data on individual fish captured on ASC electrofishing trips on the Sheepscot River from 1958 to 2003 with one record for each data trip and salmon captured and records for other fish species captured and abundance or length weight data where available. A total of 678 surveys are contained in the database. The database includes ASC's calculated densities of Atlantic salmon parr and young-of-the-year for 86 surveys.
Area	Sheepscot watershed
Metadata Date	6/21/2005
Metadata Contact	Eli Asarian
Contact Person Primary	Paul Christman
Status	complete
Progress Log	Complete. Only small portion of data are shown in charts; however, entire database is contained in a Source Table.
Lead Person	Eli
Lead Organization	Institute for Fisheries Resources
Notes	STAC Priority: Medium
Data Set Name	fish_efish_11westbr0.54_asc_89_98_density.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_2000_density.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_2001_density.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_2002_density.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_2003_density.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_01_density_11westbr20.77.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_counts_mainst.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_counts_source.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_counts_tribs.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_density_11mainst32.48.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_density_source.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_measure_indexsites20.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_03_measure_source.db, fish_efish_sheep_asc_58_83_density_11mainst10.17.db
Date of Content Start	8/25/1958
Date of Content End	9/15/2003
Maint. and Update Freq.	on-going
Purpose	Use of the data include: estimation of ATS populations and biomass for Maine salmon rearing areas, evaluation of management practices, information on occurrence of other species in Maine rivers
Data Quality Information	All data has ungone rigorous QAQC by ASC staff. Some density calculations are negative
Use Constraints	Species beside Atlantic salmon were not always recorded during surveys, especially older surveys.
Keywords	Atlantic salmon, juvenile, stream, electrofishing, parr, YOY, densities
On Line Linkage (URL)	http://www.state.me.us/asa/
Contact Organization	Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission
Contact Address	270 Lyons Road
Contact City	Sidney
Contact State	ME
Contact Zip Code	04330
Contact Voice Telephone	(207) 347-5326
Contact Email	paul.christman@Maine.gov

 
 
 

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