Otolith data collected from offshore Florida reef fish, 2015-07-06 to 2017-10-20

Growth increments from analysis of otoliths was compared to expected distributions to identify fast and slow-growing periods within the lives of individual fish. Specimens for this task originated from SEAMAP groundfish trawl surveys on the WFS, private fishing vessels, and Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission (FWC) fishery-independent monitoring collections in nearshore areas along the west coast of Florida. Growth increments from weighed, sectioned, and polished otoliths (one otolith per individual) were measured using a software/digital-camera package. The growth increment dataset consists of a the SEAMAP or FWC sample identifier code (where applicable, to relate back to the collection source data), date of collection, latitude and longitude of collection (decimal degrees), a unique specimen ID code, species name, fish length (mm TL), increment number, and otolith increment size (mm).通过对耳石（otoliths）的生长纹分析结果与预期分布进行对比，以识别单尾鱼类生命周期内的快速与慢速生长阶段。本数据集所用标本来源于西佛罗里达近岸海域的三类采样项目：SEAMAP底层鱼类拖网调查（在WFS海域开展）、私人捕捞渔船采样，以及佛罗里达鱼类与野生动物委员会（Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, FWC）的独立渔业监测采集工作。对经称重、切片并抛光的耳石（每尾个体仅取一枚耳石）的生长纹，采用软件与数码相机组合装置进行测量。本生长纹数据集包含以下字段：SEAMAP或FWC样本识别码（若适用，用于关联溯源至原始采集源数据）、采集日期、采集经纬度（十进制度单位）、唯一标本识别码、物种名称、鱼类全长（mm TL）、生长纹序号，以及耳石生长纹尺寸（mm）。