US Tuna Cannery Receipts

The data set contains receipts of tuna destined for canning, from both domestic and imported sources, at cannery locations within the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. Monthly data are available electronically from 1979 to present with new data currently uploaded annually (this may change to quarterly or monthly uploads sometime in 2020). Data elements include species, product condition, flag of catcher vessel, ocean area of harvest, harvesting gear type, harvesting vessel trip dates, unloading dates, carrier vessel name, location, cannery location, fishing vessel registration number, weights and dolphin-safe status. Non-summarized proprietary data are considered business confidential.

Since 1946, the NMFS West Coast Region (historically the NMFS Southwest Region and prior to that, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries) has been collecting from the industry, cannery receipt information on a voluntary basis for statistical purposes. Hard copies of data reports from 1946 - 1978 are available from the NMFS West Coast Region, Long Beach, California. Since 2000, data collection has been mandated under the authority of the Dolphin Protection Consumer Information Act (16 U.S.C. 1385), in conjunction with the agency's dolphin-safe Tuna Tracking & Verification Program (TTVP). A summary report is published annually on the Internet.

Data collection was revised in 2014 (to include a Customs Entry Number), that now allows linkage to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) import data. NMFS plans in 2020 to streamline cannery receipts data linkage with the CBP data (housed in the NMFS ITDS database; see https://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/itds/#). Non-summarized data is available, on a need-to-know basis, to Department of Commerce staff and to CBP staff only, as confidentiality of the proprietary data is mandated by law (16 U.S.C. 1385(f)). A signed non-disclosure form must be submitted to the TTVP to gain access to the data set.

Data collected by the TTVP, at the NMFS Long Beach, California office. The database is housed on a NMFS Office of Science and Technology server in Silver Spring, MD.

The data is received monthly from tuna canners and is uploaded into the database annually. Plans are in place to change the upload frequency to monthly or quarterly sometime in 2020.

Attributes define year, month, cannery location, purchase order or trip ID, species, harvesting vessel flag, harvesting gear type, harvesting vessel trip dates, harvesting name, harvesting vessel registration number, product condition, domestic source versus import, carrier vessel name, carrier vessel unloading dates, weights, dolphin-safe status, canning company name.

Federal regulations found at 50 CFR 216.93(d)

Data subject to protocol for Business Confidential data under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100.

Access available, on a need-to-know basis, for Department of Commerce staff and Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection staff only. A signed non-disclosure statement must be on file with the NMFS Tuna Tracking and Verification Program.

Contact the William Jacobson with the Tuna Tracking and Verification Program (NMFS West Coast Region, Long Beach office) at 562-980-4035 or at bill.jacobson@noaa.gov.

Requires access to NMFS Office of Science and Technology server.

Publication of non-summarized proprietary data, prohibited by law.

None

None

Data is contained in an Oracle database hosted on a NMFS Office of Science and Technology server, in Silver Spring, MD.

Currently, major U.S. tuna canning companies: Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea and StarKist. Data also currently collected from albacore "microcanners" located in Oregon and Washington.

Data supplied by individual tuna canners.

Monthly data reports received are review monthly for dolphin-safe regulatory compliance purposes and are cleaned/scrubbed annually, prior to upload into the database.

Data is currently uploaded into the database once a year.

Appropriate NCEI location to be determined, if applicable.

secured network environment

Tuna receipts obtained from direct fishing boat unloadings, as well as from carrier vessel unloadings. Tuna receipts originate from both domestic and imported sources.