POSTER Session 4

OPERATIONAL SATELLITE OCEANOGRAPHY IN FISHERIES

The Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf (NES) Large Marine Ecosystem is a highly productive and dynamic temperate system that is undergoing significant change. Satellite remote sensing is an effective tool for documenting changes in the ecosystem and has tremendous potential for use in science and management of living marine resources. Ocean color, sea surface temperature, and other satellite derived products are used for a wide range of operational and research applications including ecosystem monitoring and reporting, ecosystem and stock assessments, and ecosystem, food web, and habitat modeling. For example, satellite derived phytoplankton size class and primary production data are used to force the Atlantis end-to-end ecosystem model and are incorporated into ecosystem overfishing estimates. Additionally, ocean color and SST products were used as covariates in statistical approaches exploring environmental drivers of both the shortfin squid and golden tilefish for their associated research track assessments. Remote sensing products are also used in ongoing research to assess ecosystem productivity, species distribution, essential fish habitat, recruitment success, fish condition, and fishing trends. Near-real-time applications include dynamic ocean management to avoid bycatch and protected species, and adaptive sampling for targeted species. Ocean color and other remotely sensed data have tremendous potential for use in fisheries science and management, however they rely on long-term, science quality time series to accurately characterize and document changes in the marine ecosystems and its resulting influence on the phytoplankton community and living marine resources.

Kimberly Hyde, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected], https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1564-5499

Sarah Salois, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected]

Joseph Caracappa, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected]

Sarah Gaichas, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected]

Andrew Beet, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected]

Haley Synan, NOAA Fisheries, USA, [email protected]

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