California Harpoon Landings Data

The landings data are collected by CDFW through their landing receipts program. The data are housed at the Los Alamitos, CA office and used in editing of logbook data. The data are warehoused in the Pacific Fisheries Information Network (PacFIN) system.

CDFW collects landings receipt information to monitor the sales of fish by commercial fishing vessels. The data are also used to monitor and manage the fishery. Landings data are provided to PacFIN (http://pacfin.psmfc.org/).

Original data are maintained by California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Los Alamitos, CA. Data are warehoused in PacFIN, Pacific States Fisheries Commission (www.pacfin.psmfc.org)

PTIX6988 – Used for 1969-1980 Only - Landings data are collected by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG). The data are collected through a dealer receipts. The early years, 1969 to 1988, are stored on a historical data base commonly referred to as the pink ticket data. These data were stored on common formatted flat files by the CDFG. The SWFSC obtained copies of this data base and has stored this copy in an Access data base (Ptix.mdb)

Cmaster – Used for 1981 through 2012. Landings data are collected by the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG). The data are collected through a dealer receipts. 1981 to the present are stored on a data base (CFIS) maintained by the CDFW. The SWFSC used to obtain copies of the data periodically for entering gillnet and harpoon fishery logbooks. Since 2012, these data are no longer requested from CDFW.

The PacFIN database is used for obtaining landings data from California for the years 1981 through the current year