Guam Commercial Purchases

DAWR collects Trip Ticket or purchase invoice data from vendors that buy fish directly from the fishermen. Similar to the trip ticket system in Saipan, this is a voluntary program and has very few participating vendors. This was created by WPacFIN in the early 1980s. Data from as far back as July 1979 were recovered and entered into the data system as well. DAWR-based staff does the main data processing for this system. Although very few vendors participated in this voluntary program over the years, the most major vendor on Guam, the Guam Fishermen's Coop, has always participated and it is estimated that, depending on the year in question, between 50% and 90% of the commercial landings made on Guam have come through the Coop. These data are considered highly confidential.

Monitoring

1845 Wasp Boulevard, Bldg. #176, Honolulu, Hawaii 96818

Data belong to the Guam Divison of Aquatic & Wildlife Resources (DAWR). Data sharing is by cooperative WPacFIN agreement. Other access can be granted only by DAWR.

Requires signing a PIFSC non-disclosure statement for fisheries confidential data and approval from the data owner.

QC review prior to data entry, some automated QC during data entry, and further QC after data entry.

NCEI-MD does not accept sensitive data at this time

If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing,

Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed:

Creel survey data are collected by staff of the Guam Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources (DAWR) and entered by a WPacFIN JIMAR employee under a WPacFIN cooperative agreement. Commercial purchase data are collected by the same PIFSC JIMAR cooperative staffing arrangement and entered as for DAWR.