AFSC/FMA/Current Observer Data Interface

Fishery regulators and industry require near real time fishery statistics formatted appropriately for their software to record and process. This project is the result of the extract, transform, and load processes that provide that utility to these users.

Fishery regulators and industry require near real time fishery statistics formatted appropriately for their software to record and process. This project is the result of the extract, transform, and load processes that provide that utility to these users.

Fishery regulators and industry require near real time fishery statistics formatted appropriately for their software to record and process. This project is the result of the extract, transform, and load processes that provide that utility to these users.

All of these data are collected cooperatively from private commercial fishing interests and are protected from general release by confidentiality statutes. This protects the private business interests of industry while still providing NOAA Fisheries with the detailed information necessary to effectively manage the ecosystem. The staff authorized to use these data include NOAA Fisheries' scientists and managers participating in a broad range of activities including:

stock assessments,

marine mammal interactions,

food habits,

fish age analyses,

economic analyses,

fishery management plan development,

in-season fishery management.

The data are also shared with other authorized users in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) and North Pacific Fishery Management Council staff with similar responsibilities.

Alaska Fisheries Science Center

Confidential under Magnuson Stevens.

Made available to OLE, NMFS Staff with valid confidentiality agreements

Made available to OLE, NMFS Staff with valid confidentiality agreements

Made available to OLE, NMFS Staff with valid confidentiality agreements, requests must be made through Ren Narita.

Confidential data may not be published in raw form

Confidential data may only be used for fisheries management approved research.

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Oracle 11g database, OBSINT Schema. No GUI

These are transformed fisheries statistics and as representative as the underlying data set.

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These are transformed fisheries statistics and as free of sampling bias as the underlying data set.

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Data transformation and effort extrapolations are made using defined and vetted algorythms.

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These are transformed fisheries statistics and as have inherited the data quality measures from the underlying data set (NORPAC)

Under the Magnuson-Stevens Act section 402(b)(2) any observer data shall be confidential and shall not be disclosed except in accordance with certain exceptions. Confidentiality of observer statistics is to be maintained under 50 CFR 600.415 - Access to statistics. Access to these data are provided to Federal, State, Council, Research Institutions and others who have a demonstrated need for such access, and who have submitted and been been granted approval, of limited access confidentiality agreements. These agreements are valid only for the duration of approved projects or research, the data released

These data are derived from the underlying observer statistics. As such they are ephemeral and never static

Only the ETL software and the schema owner have write permissions to the schema.

The North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program was implemented in early 1990. Under this program, NMFS provides the operational oversight of the program, certification training, definition of observer sampling duties and methods, debriefing of observers, and management of the data. Although the vessel and plant owners pay for the cost of the observers, the costs associated with managing the program are covered by the Federal Government. This data set supersedes the Domestic data model.