1942
Boat and Shore Data
Boat and Shore Data
Project
Published / External
1940
Vessel and Boat Data
Project
Completed
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.
This inventory only includes vessels that are greater than five net tons and have a current US Coast Guard documentation number.
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 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?
The vessel information (i.e., length, age, horsepower, etc.) is significant to identify accurately the universe of vessels to facilitate scientific assessments of annual fishing effort.The vessel information is useful for designing a statistically robust data collection program to canvass or randomly sample the activities of fishing vessels.
The data is gathered from Coast Guard records and supplemented by the personal knowledge of Port Agents familiar with the vessels. In addition computer programs analyze reported fishing activity to determine what gears were used in what states and counties.
Theme
Vessel Counts
Temporal
1979-1995
Spatial
Florida
Spatial
Georgia
Spatial
Louisiana
Spatial
Mississippi
Spatial
North Carolina
Spatial
South Carolina
Spatial
Texas
Southeast Fisheries Science Center
Miami
FL
USA
Collection
Point of Contact
2004-01-01
Person
Gloeckner, David
David.Gloeckner@noaa.gov
75 Virginia Beach Drive
Miami
FL
33139
305-361-4257
305-361-4460
Process Contact
1996-01-01
2008-06-01
Person
Davenport, Guy
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States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, FLorida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina
Continuing
1979-01-01
Confidential
Read and sign for NOAA Administrative Order 216-100
Read and sign System Access Application (see URLs)
Contact DBA Daniel Leon at:daniel.leon@noaa.gov for userid/password.
Access is restricted to personnel authorized in accordance with NOAA Administrative Order 216-100. A signed non-disclosure agreement must be on file for all authorized personnel
Open to everyone
Oracle Database
5378
Data Set
Boat And Shore Oracle Data Tables
gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:1942
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2006-06-13T16:33:11
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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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