Fisheries One Stop Shop Public Data 2009 - Present

The purpose of the Fisheries One-Stop-Shop (FOSS) is to make fisheries dependent information readily available to fisheries managers, scientists and the American public at a national as well as regional level. Collection and management of fisheries dependent data are distributed throughout NOAA Fisheries, State Fisheries, management agencies and regional Fisheries Information Networks (FINs). The distributed nature of NOAA Fisheries information systems, differences in collection authorities and confidentiality requirements increases the importance of this flexible technical architecture that can meet the changing needs for information at national, regional and local levels of resolution. At the same time, the technical architecture is scalable to meet enterprise wide requirements for management of other types of fisheries data and fisheries independent data. Currently available via FOSS are the summarized, non-confidential, annual Commercial Landings by state as provided through the Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP), the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Information Network (GulfFIN). Recreational Landings estimates are available and provided via NMFS Headquarters. In FY2011, FOSS will be expanded to include all commercial landings nationally.

To allow members of the public to view fisheries dependent data.

FOSS Landings data is publicly accessible via the "Guest Login" feature of the application.

This is public nonconfidential data. It is accesible to the public on the world wide web.

Anyone interested in FOSS Landings data can go directly to https://foss.nmfs.noaa.gov and click on the "Guest Login" button to access the site search tool and map. Search results can also be exported in comma separated value (.csv) format.

FOSS Landings data is available to the public via the web-based interface, but are not currently available via a machine-to-machine method.

Oracle Database

Quality control is enforced by the subjective decision of the approvers at the regional science centers who review the data and the landings reports.

Pending NMFS and ST policy decisions.

This application is hosted by the Office of Science and Technology within the NOAA System 4020 and is compliant with all applicable Federal Government security policies.

Edit access to data is subject to role-based authentication and access control. All changes to data are reviewed prior to publication.

Fishing landings data are updated daily from the regional science centers via database to database connections and via a web based interface.

The landings data is then reconciled based on the individual reporting requirements of the regional science centers and is available for self-serve reporting.