Economic Data Collection for Gulf of Mexico South Atlantic Shrimp Fisheries

The Annual Economic Survey of Federal Gulf and Atlantic Shrimp Permit Holders collects data about operating expenses and costs of owning and maintaining shrimp vessels. Each spring, surveys are sent by mail to a random sample of 33 of all vessels with federal permits for the harvest of Gulf of Mexico penaeid shrimp or South Atlantic penaeid or rock shrimp. This information is used to assess trends in the financial and economic state of the fisheries, and to determine the economic and social effects of regulations and other factors affecting the Southeast shrimp fisheries. The individual information is confidential and only summary statistics are released to the public.

Provide economics research to support fisheries management.

This includes raw and processed data. The processed data is cleaned and processed cost data merged with external revenue and other data which underlies the various tech memos and reports produced.

Location Of The Main Office Of The South East Fisheries Science Center

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Waiver Needed

Oracle database houses the data from the Economic Survey of Gulf Shrimp.

Random selection of several hundred permit holders each year done to achieve representativeness of all permit holders.

Several attempts were made to recontact the permit holder to confirm or correct unusual values reported on the survey forms. Values were presented as reported when confirmation was desired but not received.

The analytical accuracy depends on the accuracy of the self reporting of costs. Follow up analysis guages the consistency of reported costs and revenues across the entire set of permit holders.

The survey requests a yearly summary of income and expenses rather than a transaction by transaction record.

No known biases.

Standard Dillman method.

This data is currently wavered under the current NOAA guidelines for relational databases.

Wavered Data