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Summary

Description

ST maintains a copy of the US Coast Guard's vessel database and provides a query system that permits the extraction of vessel characteristics, documentation and ownership. This database is updated on a monthly basis. Our query program only retrieves data about vessels which are 5 net tons or larger and are documented by the USCG. Craft less than 5 net tons or smaller are numbered by individual states.

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Contact Information

Data Steward
Alan B Lowther
alan.lowther@noaa.gov
301-427-8154

Item Identification

Title: Documented Vessels Information
Short Name: Documented Vessels Information
Status: In Work
Abstract:

ST maintains a copy of the US Coast Guard's vessel database and provides a query system that permits the extraction of vessel characteristics, documentation and ownership. This database is updated on a monthly basis. Our query program only retrieves data about vessels which are 5 net tons or larger and are documented by the USCG. Craft less than 5 net tons or smaller are numbered by individual states.

Purpose:

To make information on USCG documneted vessels readily available to the public through an online database query system.

Physical Location

Organization: NMFS Office of Science and Technology
City: Silver Spring
State/Province: MD
Country: USA
Location Description:

1315 East West Hghw

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Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 169797
Date Effective From: 2005-01-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Lowther, Alan B
Address: 1315 East West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282
USA
Email Address: alan.lowther@noaa.gov
Phone: 301-427-8154
Fax: 301-713-1875

Publisher

CC ID: 169798
Date Effective From: 2005-01-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Van Voorhees, David A
Address: 1315 East West Hwy
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3282
USA
Email Address: dave.van.voorhees@noaa.gov
Phone: 301-427-8189
Fax: 301-713-1875

URLs

URL 1

CC ID: 169634
URL: http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/coast-guard-vessel-search/index
Description:

Provides access to the NOAA Fisheries copy of the USCG vessel database.

Data Quality

Quality Control Procedures Employed:

We provide a copy of the existing Coast Guard documented vessels dataset. We do not perform additional quality control measures nor do we change the data provided by the Coast Guard.

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 20701
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:20701
Metadata Record Created By: Lauren M Dolinger Few
Metadata Record Created: 2013-10-22 13:47+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2014-04-01
Owner Org: OST
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2014-04-01
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2015-04-01