A Preliminary Qualitative Study of Baited Remote Underwater Video Surveys (BRUVS) on Fish Assemblage in the Coastal Waters of Maine

Jasmine D. Nyce; Woon Yuen Koh; Kristen S. Wurth; James A. Sulikowski

doi:10.1656/045.029.0101

A Preliminary Qualitative Study of Baited Remote Underwater Video Surveys (BRUVS) on Fish Assemblage in the Coastal Waters of Maine

Jasmine D. Nyce, Woon Yuen Koh, Kristen S. Wurth, James A. Sulikowski

Mathematical and Natural Sciences, School of (SMNS)

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The use of baited remote underwater video surveys (BRUVS) has become increasingly prevalent in temperate ecosystems in recent years as this technique provides data on ecosystem structure and species composition. To date, no BRUVS have been performed in the Saco Bay due to natural obstacles within the region. Our modified BRUVS resulted in 66 hours of video recorded over 2 sampling periods with 17 different species of various taxa observed. A total of 623 individuals was observed based on MaxN. These baited remote underwater video surveys successfully provided ecosystem data; therefore, we suggest that it would be an ideal complementary sampling method for this region.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Northeastern Naturalist
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1656/045.029.0101
State	Published - Mar 1 2022

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