Hawaii Longline Logbook

This data set contains the logbook data of U.S. longline vessels based in Hawaii from 1990 to the present that fish in the central Pacific (120 deg W - 170 deg E and 50 deg N - 20 deg S). Tunas (Thunnus spp.) are the dominant species of the longline catch. Swordfish and blue shark were also

numerous in the longline catch prior to April 2001. In addition, there are approximately 10 to 15 other

Pelagic Management Unit Species (PMUS).

Since April 2001, there have been numerous regulation changes that affect the catch and effort and fishing area of the fleet; the point of contact should be contacted for more information.

The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council (WPRFMC) developed the fishery management plan (FMP) to manage the pelagic resources authorized by the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976. This FMP, which regulates the U.S. domestic fisheries for tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other pelagic species within the western Pacific U.S. Exclusive Economic Zones, was first implemented by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS), on March 23, 1987. The Federal longline logbook program was implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in November 1990. Logbooks are filed by all operators of fishing vessels conducting longline fishing operations on the High Seas and within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone in American Samoa, Guam, Hawaii, the Northern Mariana Islands, and U.S. possessions in the western Pacific and offloading in U.S. ports.

SOURCE ID FC048

Division: Fishery Monitoring and Socioeconomic Division

Division Chief: Christofer Boggs

Ownership: PIFSC

Spatial Resolution: Degrees and tenths of minutes

Type of Data Collected: logbook

Collection Methods: Federal longline logbook collection form, electronic log

Recording media: Paper, diskette

Validation and QC Procedures: Available

Storage Location: 1845 Wasp Blvd, Bldg 176, Honolulu, HI 96818

Storage Media: HDD, ORACLE database

Security and Integrity Plans: Available

Backups: Available

Data Distributuion Methods: Encrypted zip file via email, FTP site, or CD

Metadata Standard: FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee)

Send written request to PIFSC and get approval by PIFSC data owner.

NMFS personnel need a signed non-disclosure agreement statement and a "need to know" to access the detailed data. There are not constraints on access to summarized non-confidential data.

QC review prior to data entry. Some automated QC during data entry. Data validation program is run on data in the database, and necessary corrections are made to the database.

NCEI-MD does not accept sensitive data at this time

PIFSC ITS performs scheduled back-ups.

Data was recorded at sea by permitted fishermen on Federal logbooks, and data entry was conducted at PIFSC to create ASCII fixed record length flat files. The flat files were loaded into a database, and the LLPS data validation program was run on the data. Clean data was extracted from the database and then loaded into an Oracle database (header and detail tables) for authorized access.