Economic Data Collection for Gulf Shrimp Non Confidential Reports

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 about a third 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.

Please note that the child documents in this dataset are found in either the distribution .zip file on the PARR Data server or individually on the SEFSC website

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

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Collection Of Documents/Reports

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 dataset is just a collection of documents so no archiving is intended.

The data resides on a secure database server only accessible through the NMFS network requiring separate multi-factor authentication for both network and database access.