Description
About this project Help conserve South Carolina's native fishes by joining fellow divers in reporting lionfish sightings or culling. Collectively, our efforts will guide future strategic actions to benefit the health of our reef communities, as well as the fishermen who depend upon them. Project goal To track and remove lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats. What participants do Document all lionfish sightings and culling activity in South Carolina's marine habitats. Lionfish (Pterois volitans): Although stunningly beautiful, these aggressive non-native predators are of great concern due to their recent rapid colonization of South Carolina's reefs. As indiscriminate consumers of native fish and direct competitors with snapper-grouper species for food, lionfish have the potential to significantly disrupt the overall health and stability of local reefs. So what can we do? The South Carolina Aquarium is leading the way to empower citizens like you to engage with us in meaningful conservation actions. As partners, we can make a bigger positive impact while concurrently generating scientifically valuable data that everyone can access. Our goal with Lionfish Watch is to promote collaborative solutions by tracking and removing lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats. The benefits are numerous; will you take action with us? HOW TO PARTICIPATE: SAFETY CONCERNS: Lionfish are armed with venemous red and white striped spines and a fearless disposition. Citizen scientists engaging in this project must use appropriate caution and be knowledgable and prepared to treat lionfish stings. If you are stung, immerse the wound in hot water for 30-90 minutes and immediately seek medical attention. Choose any reef that you can safely and legally access. Avoid Marine Protected Areas. Record requested data on sightings and/or culling activity during your dive. Contribute your data using either the SC Aquarium app or the project website.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 12 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 4f782e28-da35-4d0d-b578-a816cbd3e364. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
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Geographic Coverage
United States
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [32.209, -80.201], North East [32.978, -79.19] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Species | Pterois volitans |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2017-07-31 / 2022-07-24 |
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Project Data
Anecdata is a free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data. How Anecdata works: Project managers create projects, creating datasheets that participants fill out to share their observations. Participants join projects and use the Anecdata website or mobile app to share their observations with the project. Project data is now available for anyone to view and download!
| Title | Anecdata.org |
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| Identifier | Anecdata.org |
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Sampling Methods
What participants do Document all lionfish sightings and culling activity in South Carolina's marine habitats.
| Study Extent | About this project Help conserve South Carolina's native fishes by joining fellow divers in reporting lionfish sightings or culling. Collectively, our efforts will guide future strategic actions to benefit the health of our reef communities, as well as the fishermen who depend upon them. Project goal To track and remove lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats. |
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Method step description:
- Lionfish (Pterois volitans): Although stunningly beautiful, these aggressive non-native predators are of great concern due to their recent rapid colonization of South Carolina's reefs. As indiscriminate consumers of native fish and direct competitors with snapper-grouper species for food, lionfish have the potential to significantly disrupt the overall health and stability of local reefs. So what can we do? The South Carolina Aquarium is leading the way to empower citizens like you to engage with us in meaningful conservation actions. As partners, we can make a bigger positive impact while concurrently generating scientifically valuable data that everyone can access. Our goal with Lionfish Watch is to promote collaborative solutions by tracking and removing lionfish from South Carolina's marine habitats. The benefits are numerous; will you take action with us? HOW TO PARTICIPATE: SAFETY CONCERNS: Lionfish are armed with venemous red and white striped spines and a fearless disposition. Citizen scientists engaging in this project must use appropriate caution and be knowledgable and prepared to treat lionfish stings. If you are stung, immerse the wound in hot water for 30-90 minutes and immediately seek medical attention. Choose any reef that you can safely and legally access. Avoid Marine Protected Areas. Record requested data on sightings and/or culling activity during your dive. Contribute your data using either the SC Aquarium app or the project website.
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.gbif.us/resource?r=lionfish-watch |
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