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Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office, 2024: VMS forms Output Tables, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/22193.

Item Identification

Title: VMS forms Output Tables
Short Name: VMS forms Output Tables
Status: Completed
Creation Date: 2005
Abstract:

These output tables contain parsed and format validated data from the various VMS forms that are sent from any given vessel, while at sea, from the VMS devices on their vessels. Forms included are:

Catch reports for Herring, Multispecies, Scallop, Mackerel/Squid.

Preland reports for Herring, Scallop, Mackerel.

Monk overage reports - vessels can indicate if they've caught more monkfish than a trip allows, permitted under current regulations.

Trip start and trip end hails for Sector trips, RSA/EFP trips.

Gulf of Maine Cod trip limit exemption.

Purpose:

This dataset describes parsed and validated VMS data.

Notes:

Many of these tables existed prior to the creation of the parsing engine and needed to have columns added or modified to accommodate the engine.

Keywords

Theme Keywords

Thesaurus Keyword
UNCONTROLLED
None parsing engine
None vessel monitoring system
None vms

Physical Location

Organization: Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
City: Gloucester
State/Province: MA
Country: USA
Location Description:

Server Room

Data Set Information

Data Set Scope Code: Data Set
Data Set Type: Database
Maintenance Frequency: Continually
Data Presentation Form: Table (digital)
Entity Attribute Overview:

Although the details vary with the form type, all forms contain the date/time the message was sent, latitude and longitude of the fishing vessel, and operator permit number. Many forms also contain a VTR number, date the fish were caught, estimated arrival time, estimated offload time, and number of pounds of the given species that were caught.

Support Roles

Data Steward

CC ID: 270176
Date Effective From: 2005
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Semrau, William J
Address: 55 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930
USA
Email Address: william.semrau@noaa.gov
Phone: 978-281-9151
Fax: 978-281-9317

Distributor

CC ID: 270174
Date Effective From: 2010
Date Effective To:
Contact (Organization): Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO)
Address: 55 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930
USA
Phone: (978)281-9300
Business Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 EST

Metadata Contact

CC ID: 175388
Date Effective From: 2012-05-01
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Rohan, Patrick R
Address: 55 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930
USA
Email Address: patrick.rohan@noaa.gov
Phone: 978-281-9192
Contact Instructions:

Phone: 978 281-9192

Email: Patrick.Rohan@noaa.gov

Point of Contact

CC ID: 270175
Date Effective From: 2005
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Semrau, William J
Address: 55 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930
USA
Email Address: william.semrau@noaa.gov
Phone: 978-281-9151
Fax: 978-281-9317

Process Contact

CC ID: 175390
Date Effective From: 2013-05
Date Effective To:
Contact (Person): Washick, Denise A
Address: 55 Great Republic Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930
USA
Email Address: denise.washick@noaa.gov
Phone: 978-675-2197
Contact Instructions:

Phone: 978 675-2197

Extents

Extent Group 1

Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1

CC ID: 175386
Description

All waters regulated by the Greater Atlantic Regional Office of NMFS.

Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1

CC ID: 271876
Time Frame Type: Continuing
Start: 2005

Access Information

Security Class: Sensitive
Security Classification System:

All fishing industry related data managed by IRM is considered to be business confidential and may not be released without written consent of the data originator.

Data Access Procedure:

Access to data is governed by 50CFR600 - Confidentiality of Information. Access by state fishery management agency staff and Fisheries Management Council staff may be allowed through Memorandum of Understanding that are signed by the Greater Atlantic Regional Administrator and Directors of the State Agency or Councils that describe the need and uses of the data and list the individuals who will have access to the data. Contractors may be granted access provided they are working under contract to NOAA or a cooperating partner (state, Council, Commission) on a specific project under the oversight of a partner.

Data Access Constraints:

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. The IRM help desk or APSD Data Request staff are the POC for non-disclosure forms.

Technical Environment

Description:

Relational database.

Data Quality

Representativeness:

N/A

Accuracy:

N/A

Analytical Accuracy:

N/A

Horizontal Positional Accuracy:

N/A

Vertical Positional Accuracy:

N/A

Quantitation Limits:

N/A

Completeness Measure:

100%

Quality Control Procedures Employed:

GARFO has established an "industry data investigation" (IDI) team whose responsibility is to investigate and correct data errors on GARFO's critical datasets including vessel trip reports, dealer reports, and various associated fishing activity reports, including VMS reports. QC on these datasets is performed regularly since data is securely displayed on various web portals to its owners. JIRA is the tool used for tracking quality control.

Data Management

Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified?: Yes
Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management: Unknown
Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive?: Yes
Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver?: Yes
If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate: Not needed
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination: No significant delay
Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location: NCEI-MD
Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving: 1 month
How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive?:

Access to this data is tightly controlled. Most access is read-only. Write access is given only after data owners have authorized (accompanied by a signed NDA), and data is usually edited via an access controlled application. Data is QAQC'd on a regular basis by authorized personnel, and backed up both to disk and tape on a daily basis.

Lineage

Lineage Statement:

This dataset is generated with the following steps:

1. Vessel enters fishing activity data into whatever specific VMS form(s) that his fishing activities require by regulation, and sends.

2. Data is transmitted via a satellite network directly to one of several data repositories, depending on the VMS equipment that the vessel is using.

3. GARFO and OLE have processes which work together to pull data securely and regularly from these repositories (of which there are several) into raw data tables.

4. A VMS parsing engine managed by GARFO pulls from these raw tables, validates each form for format and a few other validation types, then inserts validated data into production output tables.

5. These output tables can then be displayed in Fishtank, Fish Online, or used by a variety of data analysis processes.

Sources

N/A

CC ID: 835442

Process Steps

Process Step 1

CC ID: 835443
Description:

N/A

Process Contact: Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO)
Phone (Voice): (978)281-9300
Source: N/A

FAQs

FAQ 1

CC ID: 175391
Date: 2009-12-14 00:00:00
Author: Patrick R Rohan
Question:

How many output tables are there?

Answer:

15

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 22193
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:22193
Metadata Record Created By: Patrick R Rohan
Metadata Record Created: 2014-09-12 11:15+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2016-02-25
Owner Org: GARFO
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2016-02-25
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2017-02-25