Research Article

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

Table 1

Perception correction factor (PCF) values for each aerial survey, where “ ” is the number of sharks seen by observer 1 only, “ ” is the number of sharks seen by observer 2 only, and “ ” is the number of sharks seen by both observers.

Survey dateTotal lemon sharks observed PCF

Sep-07249781.26
Nov-07186481.30
Dec-07103431.40
Jan-08166551.26
Mar-0862221.33
May-08126331.13
Jul-08269891.31
Sep-08331310101.23