2018 Status and Trends Report
FWRI collects catch-and-effort data and provides information to those assessing the effects that current and proposed management regulations have or might have on fish stocks, fishing practices, and fishers. The Status and Trends Report for Florida's Inshore and Nearshore Species provides trend analyses for all species groups and individual species accounts for selected finfish and shellfish.
Florida's Inshore and Nearshore Species: 2018 Status and Trends Full Report
2018 Status and Trends Report
This is the twenty-third year that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute Stock Assessment Group has produced the Status and Trends Report. This year’s report summarizes the available 1992-2017 commercial landing, 1982-2017 recreational landings, fishing effort, fishery catch rates, and the 1997-2017 fisheries-independent sampling effort, and young-of-the-year and post-young-of-the-year abundance indices for 135 species or groups.
Species Accounts
Species accounts provide a summary of biology and fishery information for a particular species. The accounts provide life history information, statewide landings, trends in catch rates, and results of recent stock assessments.
Literature Cited and Appendix A
The table in Appendix A summarizes the catch rate summaries for the Atlantic and gulf coasts of Florida for finfish and invertebrates landed over the last ten years.
The table looks at each species and contains information about its catch rates summarized by source of data (commercial, recreational, fishery independent), coast (Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico), category (finfish, invertebrate, or ornamental marine life), commercial trips, pounds landed, recreational interviews, estimated number of angler trips, number of fish landed, number per hour, number of research samples, the proportion of sampling trips that caught the particular species, and the significance levels for each source of data.