Project report : Oscar Elton Sette, Project SE-16-01, February 22 - April 13 2016, Rose Atoll, South Bank, East Bank, 2% Bank, and Tutuila, American Samoa and Upolu, Manono Island, and Savai'i, Independent Samoa Oscar Elton Sette, Project Report SE-16-01

The NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette (OES) was engaged as support for the NOAA Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division, Life History Program. Operations included deep-water bottomfishing and nightlight hook-and-line fishing from the OES, deep-water bottomfishing, spearfishing, coral bleaching surveys and sea grass surveys from small boats launched daily from the ship, midwater sampling using the ship Cobb trawl and IK trawl, and collection of oceanographic data using the ship CTD. 2016 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Science Center) CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System) Submitted https://doi.org/10.25923/r2tc-xe41 Public Domain 1860