Long-term fishery-independent surveys provide a wealth of information on fisheries stocks that inform stock assessments. One of the strengths of these surveys is that the design and methods are consistent through time. However, maintaining an unchanged time series can pose several potential issues as management needs change resulting in the need to alter either the survey design or its spatial extent. In the United States Gulf...

The Southeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (SEAMAP) Bottom Longline (BLL) survey was established to provide a nearshore complement to the offshore National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) BLL survey. SEAMAP state partners (i.e., Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama) used identical gear and sampling protocol to NMFS; however, temporal window, sampling universe, sampling frequency, and station selection were dete...

The goal of this paper was to review the evidence of population-level impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (DWH) on Gulf of Mexico (GOM) continental shelf taxa, as well as evidence of resiliency following the DWH. There is considerable environmental and biological evidence that GOM shelf taxa were exposed to and suffered direct and indirect impacts of the DWH. Numerous assessments, from mesocosm studies to analysis of bi...