Face and lips occasionally navy blue. Individuals along North and South Americn coasts less brilliantly colored.
Blue to greenish blue, with yellow rims on scales; yellow ventral and pectoral fins; deep blue lips and markings on gill cover; yellowish face.
Silver-white. Black bar on head runs across eye; may have darkish spot on rear dorsal fin below distinctive black dot noted above.
Silver-gray. Marked with numerous dark, thin lines that radiate at a diagonal from midbody; black bar on hear runs across eye; yellowish submarginal band on rear dorsal, tail and anal fins.
Silver to white. black bar on head runs across eye; blackish border on rear of body, base of rear dorsal and anal fins.
Bright yellow ring around eye. All fins black except base of pectoral which is yellow.
What is the VFSP? | How do I access the database and summary reports? | How do I participate? | The Roving Diver Survey Method | Can I collect data while snorkeling or freediving? | Submitting your data | Can I still use Scantron forms? | When and where are surveys conducted? | How has the Volunteer Fish Survey Project expanded around the world? |
This report is the first publication of the RDT, and was initially given at the Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute meeting in Spring 1994.
Roving diver data gathered by expert volunteers in the Florida Keys are presented and discussed. These data are found to be comparable to other Florida Keys published studies. Differences in the fish assemblages between the three regions of the Keys, the upper, lower, and the Dry Tortugas, are reported and evaluated. This paper was the first published account of the Roving Diver Technique (RDT).