West Hawaii Aquarium Project (WHAP): fish and substrate data, 1999-2002 (NODC Accession 0000938)

In response to declines in reef fishes, the Hawaii state legislature created the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area in 1998 to improve fishery resources (Act 306). The West Hawaii Aquarium Project (WHAP) was funded by the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative to monitor to fish populations and quantify the habitats in this region. This dataset consists of an MS Access relational database of all monitoring data from 1999-2002 and image and random point files of benthic habitat survey frames grabbed from video transects.

During initial funding under CRAMP in 1998-99, 23 permanent study sites were established positioned in all of the proposed Fish Replenishment Areas (FRAs) as well as eight sites where fish collecting is know to occur ("impact"), and six managed areas where aquarium fish collection is prohibited (three Marine Life Conservation Districts (MLCDs) and three FMAs or "control"). Initial surveys confirm that aquarium fish collecting impacts are significant but vary along the coastline.

针对礁鱼种群数量下滑的现状，夏威夷州议会于1998年设立夏威夷西部区域渔业管理区（West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area），以改善渔业资源（第306号法案）。夏威夷珊瑚礁倡议（Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative）资助了夏威夷西部水族项目（West Hawaii Aquarium Project, WHAP），用于对该区域的鱼类种群开展监测并量化其栖息地类型。本数据集涵盖1999年至2002年的全部监测数据的Microsoft Access关系型数据库，以及从视频样带中截取的底栖生境调查帧图像与随机点文件。

在1998-1999年CRAMP资助的初始阶段，研究团队共设立23个永久性研究样地，覆盖所有拟议的鱼类补给区（Fish Replenishment Areas, FRAs），同时包含8处已知存在鱼类采集活动的"影响区"，以及6处禁止水族观赏鱼采集的管理区（其中3个为海洋生物保护区（Marine Life Conservation Districts, MLCDs），另外3个为渔业管理区（Fishery Management Areas, FMAs），即"对照区"）。初步调查结果证实，水族观赏鱼采集活动的影响较为显著，但沿海岸线存在空间差异。