3. Commercial Deep Sea Fisheries
85
4. Seward-Johnson Submersible Survey
88
F. Field Survey at Isla Desecheo, Puerto Rico
99
1. Description of Study Area
99
2. Biological Characterization of Marine Communities
105
2.1 Sessile-Benthic communities
105
2.1.1 SW Wall Reef – 30 m
105
2.1.2 SW Wall Reef – 40 m
111
2.1.3 Agelas Reef – 50 m
116
2.2 Fishes
124
2.2.1 Fishes – 30 m
124
2.2.2 Fishes – 40 m
134
2.2.3 Fishes – 50 m
143
VI.
Conclusions
151
VII.
Literature Cited
153
VIII. Appendices
164
1. Taxonomic Record of Ahermatypic Corals Reported
165
for the Caribbean Sea
2. Taxonomic Record of Fishes Reported for PR and the USVI
167
3. Catch record of stations sampled during the NMFS-NOAA
207
fishery survey
4. Taxonomic composition and abundance of fishes associated 209
with the drop-off wall reef at a depth of 30 meters
5. Taxonomic composition and abundance of fishes associated 212
with the drop-off wall reef at a depth of 40 meters
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