A responsibility of NOAA Fisheries is to consider the effects of fisheries management on fishing communities. This report assesses community participation for select Hawaiʻi commercial fisheries 2000-2018.
We examined opakapaka microstructure and age to provide information for a stock assessment, with the resulting criterion becoming a reference for future evaluation of main Hawaiian Islands sex-specific growth of opakapaka
This document was generated in light of MOUSS to support the fisheries optical stereo-video data community with protocols for camera deployment and recovery, data processing, and annotation of in situ stereo-video data.
The purpose of this study was to document local fisheries knowledge and cultural heritage for the bottomfish community, resource users, and fisheries managers.
A study evaluating the impact of sampling season and survey gear the Bottomfish Fishery-Independent Survey designed to provide species-specific, size structured abundance and biomass for the Hawaiian Islands “Deep7” bottomfish complex.