United Fishing Agency Fish Auction Sampling Data
Data Set (DS) | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC)GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:10841 | Updated: February 13, 2025 | Published / External
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Summary
Short Citation
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 2025: United Fishing Agency Fish Auction Sampling Data, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/10841.
Full Citation Examples
Contains information collected such as: lengths, weights, sex, quantity, species, etc. from various bottomfish and pelagic species during frequent visits to the United Fishing Agency Fish Auction in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Distribution Information
No Distributions available.
Access Constraints:Required Confidentiality forms must be submitted for review before access is granted.
Child Items
| Type | Title |
|---|---|
| Entity | Column Notes for UFA Sampling Data |
Contact Information
Point of Contact
Eva M Schemmel
eva.schemmel@noaa.gov
Extents
165° W,
-120° E,
45° N,
0° S
Exact locations are not known, it is impossible to match up each fish from the auction to corresponding fish caught aboard a specific vessel but a very generalized location can be found using the date and vessel name to searching information provided by the PIRO longline observer program and fishermen via the Longline Logbook data. Most species are within the vicinity of the Hawaiian Archipelago; it is noted if the fish has been imported.
2007-10-18 - Present
Item Identification
| Title: | United Fishing Agency Fish Auction Sampling Data |
|---|---|
| Status: | In Work |
| Abstract: |
Contains information collected such as: lengths, weights, sex, quantity, species, etc. from various bottomfish and pelagic species during frequent visits to the United Fishing Agency Fish Auction in Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| Purpose: |
To collect lengths and weights for size composition analysis and compare lengths of MHI vs. NWHI species that would otherwise be unattainable. |
| Notes: |
The UFA fish auction provides an easily accessible, efficient means of collecting valuable life history data. |
| Supplemental Information: |
Dataset was created for the information collected from bottomfish species but during seasonal and TAC closures the sampling focus shifted to pelagic species. Opah is strongly represented in this dataset due to the discovery of a cryptic species and the additional sampling associated with this discover. Its frequent occurrence within this dataset is not an indicator of abundance, but rather a result of species-specific sampling. |
Keywords
Theme Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
| UNCONTROLLED | |
| None | bottomfish |
| None | fish auction |
| None | FRMD |
| None | LHP |
| None | pelagic |
| None | PIFSC |
| None | UFA |
Spatial Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
| UNCONTROLLED | |
| None | Main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) |
| None | Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) |
Physical Location
| Organization: | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center |
|---|---|
| City: | Honolulu |
| State/Province: | HI |
| Country: | USA |
| Location Description: |
The Life History Program has relocated to the Honolulu IRC facility on Ford Island hence; most data sets are stored there. |
Data Set Information
| Data Set Scope Code: | Data Set |
|---|---|
| Data Set Type: | Files |
| Maintenance Frequency: | As Needed |
| Data Presentation Form: | Table (digital) |
| Entity Attribute Overview: |
Paper data forms containing lengths and weights of fish sampled located at the IRC. All data originally recorded on paper has been entered into an Excel Spreadsheet. In November 2010, a barcode scanning device was utilized at the auction, during the time the barcode scanner was in use, hand-written data forms were not recorded. Data is updated often and some of the data is accessible using an Oracle database. |
| Entity Attribute Detail Citation: |
Referred to as UFA_Main in Oracle Database |
Support Roles
Distributor
| Date Effective From: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Date Effective To: | |
| Contact (Organization): | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) |
| Address: |
1845 Wasp Blvd. Honolulu, HI 96818 USA |
| Email Address: | pifsc.info@noaa.gov |
| Phone: | 808-725-5360 |
| URL: | https://www.pifsc.noaa.gov |
| Business Hours: | 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Point of Contact
| Date Effective From: | 2023-08 |
|---|---|
| Date Effective To: | |
| Contact (Person): | Schemmel, Eva M |
| Email Address: | eva.schemmel@noaa.gov |
| Contact Instructions: |
Contact via email. |
Extents
| Currentness Reference: | Ground Condition |
|---|
Extent Group 1
Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1
| W° Bound: | 165 | |
|---|---|---|
| E° Bound: | -120 | |
| N° Bound: | 45 | |
| S° Bound: | 0 | |
| Description |
Exact locations are not known, it is impossible to match up each fish from the auction to corresponding fish caught aboard a specific vessel but a very generalized location can be found using the date and vessel name to searching information provided by the PIRO longline observer program and fishermen via the Longline Logbook data. Most species are within the vicinity of the Hawaiian Archipelago; it is noted if the fish has been imported. |
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Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1
| Time Frame Type: | Continuing |
|---|---|
| Start: | 2007-10-18 |
Access Information
| Security Class: | Sensitive |
|---|---|
| Security Classification System: |
Dataset contains confidential fisheries data. |
| Data Access Procedure: |
Send written request to PIFSC and get approval by the PIFSC data owner. |
| Data Access Constraints: |
Required Confidentiality forms must be submitted for review before access is granted. |
Data Quality
| Quality Control Procedures Employed: |
QC review prior to data entry. Further QC after data entry. |
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Data Management
| Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified?: | Yes |
|---|---|
| Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: | Unknown |
| Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: | Yes |
| Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: | Yes |
| Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination: | 1 Year |
| Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location: | NCEI-MD |
| Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving: | 1 Year |
| How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?: |
PIFSC ITS performs regularly scheduled backups of shared drives. |
Lineage
| Lineage Statement: |
Data was collected in the field by PIFSC staff, and entered in table format into electronic spreadsheets. |
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Child Items
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Type | Title |
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| Entity | Column Notes for UFA Sampling Data |
Related Items
| Item Type | Relationship Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Entity (ENT) | Cross Reference |
CODE: List of Bottomfish Species List of some (not all) bottomfish species encountered at the auction. |
Catalog Details
| Catalog Item ID: | 10841 |
|---|---|
| GUID: | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:10841 |
| Metadata Record Created By: | Meagan A Sundberg |
| Metadata Record Created: | 2011-02-16 18:32+0000 |
| Metadata Record Last Modified By: | Michael Chang |
| Metadata Record Last Modified: | 2025-02-13 22:57+0000 |
| Metadata Record Published: | 2025-02-13 |
| Owner Org: | PIFSC |
| Metadata Publication Status: | Published Externally |
| Do Not Publish?: | N |
| Metadata Last Review Date: | 2019-07-23 |
| Metadata Review Frequency: | 1 Year |
| Metadata Next Review Date: | 2020-07-23 |