Project report : NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, Cruise SE-19-06, September 11, 2019 to September 29, 2019

The focus of this mission was to support the operational Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey in Hawaii (BFISH) using the Modular Optical Underwater Survey System (MOUSS) fishery-independent sampling gear (Amin et al. 2017). BFISH became operational as an annual survey in 2016. The MOUSS builds and improves upon previous efforts with the Baited Stereo-Video Bottom Camera System (BotCam), which has been effectively used to collect fishery-independent, species-specific size-structured abundance data on bottomfish in the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) (Merritt et al. 2011). 2019 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/k9s2-6p46 Public Domain 1862