Fisheries monitoring programs around the world are often designed to provide information on a wide range of species that come into contact with the program gear(s). Such programs may provide untapped abundance and distribution data for species of greatest conservation need (SGCN) and other rare or data-deficient species. We examined >30 years of fish sampling data from coastal Louisiana and found that 13 of 18 SGCN marine fishes were represented in existing routine monitoring data. Although some species were rarely reported, >100 records were available for seven species, with some species being reported several thousand times. Using these records, we were able to provide species-specific information about gear, season, location and timing for several marine fishes that were considered largely unknown. Given the paucity of information available for these species and the rapidly changing Louisiana coast, these biogeographic data may be important in the development of future conservation and management programs.

世界各地的渔业监测计划通常旨在提供与计划渔具接触的各种物种的信息。此类计划可为最需要保护的物种 (SGCN) 和其他稀有或数据不足的物种提供未开发的丰度和分布数据。我们检查了路易斯安那州沿海超过 30 年的鱼类采样数据，发现 18 条 SGCN 海洋鱼类中有 13 条存在于现有的常规监测数据中。虽然有些物种很少被报道，但有 7 个物种的超过 100 条记录可用，有些物种被报道了数千次。使用这些记录，我们能够为几种被认为在很大程度上未知的海洋鱼类提供有关渔具、季节、位置和时间的特定物种信息。