Aerial Survey as a Tool to Estimate Abundance and Describe Distribution of a Carcharhinid Species, the Lemon Shark, Negaprion brevirostris

Table 2

Area of block (m²), area of coverage (m²) based on 350 m visual swath width, and survey intensity (SI) of each survey block A–S.

Survey block	Area of block (m^2)	Area of coverage (m^2)	SI
A	1,372,459	883,975	0.644
B	1,629,582	803,130	0.493
C	3,034,218	1,259,041	0.415
D	2,550,267	1,385,899	0.543
E	1,253,667	842,485	0.672
F	1,626,326	674,328	0.415
G	1,720,557	571,343	0.332
H	1,471,679	681,739	0.463
I	1,427,818	658,329	0.461
J	1,657,296	897,071	0.541
K	745,701	660,251	0.885
L	2,864,207	1,910,109	0.667
M	3,225,809	1,871,598	0.580
N	2,019,770	955,687	0.473
O	1,407,947	667,035	0.474
P	1,811,735	850,333	0.469
Q	2,253,654	1,009,107	0.448
R	1,450,254	663,801	0.458
S	2,038,271	942,918	0.463