1940
Vessel and Boat Data
Vessel and Boat Data
Project
Published / External
10944
Commercial Catch and Effort
Project
In Work
Prior to 1970 the Bureau of Fisheries and the U.S. Fish Commission, which were the predecessor agencies of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), collected little information on vessels actively participating in commercial fisheries. In 1979 NMFS initiated a system that provided data on vessels that actively participate in commercial fishing during each calendar year. The object of this system is to provide an inventory of vessels that answer two fundamental questions:
How many vessels are fishing commercially?
What are the characteristics of these vessels?
This inventory only includes vessels that are greater than five net tons and have a current US Coast Guard documentation number. This system is referred to as the NMFS vessel operating units. There is data for the years from 1979 to the present.
Because the vessel operating units data only include larger documented vessels, a count of the smaller, undocumented boats was conducted once a year by NMFS and state port agents from 1979 to 1995. Unlike the vessel operating units data, characteristics of the individual boats are not recorded. These annual counts of boats are referred to as boat and shore data.
The vessel operating units data and the boat and shore data are accessible through the SEFSC database server by using the VOU menu.
To describe number and characteristics of vessels and boats
Theme
Boats
Theme
Counts
Theme
Vessels
Temporal
1979-present
Spatial
Alabama
Spatial
Atlantic
Spatial
Florida
Spatial
Georgia
Spatial
Gulf
Spatial
Louisiana
Spatial
Mississippi
Spatial
North Carolina
Spatial
South Carolina
Spatial
Texas
Stratum
County
Stratum
Gear
Stratum
State
Stratum
Year
Data Steward
2005-01-01
Person
Gloeckner, David
David.Gloeckner@noaa.gov
75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami
FL
33139
305-361-4257
305-361-4460
Phone or email
Data Steward
1990-01-01
2008-05-01
Person
Davenport, Guy
All of the South Eastern States:
NC,SC,GA,FL,AL,MS,LA,TX
Continuing
1979
Confidential
Contact Data Manageror Data Steward
1942
Project
Boat and Shore Data
1941
Project
Vessel Operating Units
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:1940
Lee Weinberger
2006-06-13T16:31:35
SysAdmin InPortAdmin
2022-08-09T17:10:58
2021-05-06
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
SEFSC
75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami
FL
33149
USA
(305)361-5761
www.sefsc.noaa.gov
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
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