Download or read book Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey written by Hongguang Ma and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hawaii is the only U.S.-associated island area (state) in the NOAA Pacific Islands Region that currently participates in recreational fishing surveys under the NOAA Fisheries Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP), formerly known as Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS). The on-site interviews (for catch rate) of the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey (HMRFS) are conducted by the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources while the telephone survey for fishing effort in Hawaii is currently conducted by a Hawaii contractor and is managed by a mainland company. For a MRIP project in 2010, the HMRFS protocol and data were evaluated to determine whether the new MRIP methods for catch-rate estimation could be directly applied to HMRFS. More recently, MRIP statistical consultants were contracted to review the current HMRFS sampling design and evaluate alternative survey options. After the review, the same consultants worked with the Hawaii project team to design and test alternative shore-fishing surveys for HMRFS. Several recent MRIP project reports included key findings and recommendations for HMRFS. In addition to discussing the major recommendations from previous/ongoing MRIP projects, this manuscript covers HMRFS sampling, estimation algorithm, catch/effort estimates, and data analyses. At the beginning of this contribution, the sampling design and expansion procedures were described. Major pelagic species were used to demonstrate how catch-and-effort estimates are calculated from HMRFS data. The authors then presented Hawaii-specific information from HMRFS data and provided comparisons and analyses. To conclude, the caveats in HMRFS catch estimates were discussed and recent efforts to improve HMRFS sampling procedures were highlighted"--Executive Summary. [doi:10.7289/V5/TM-PIFSC-55 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-PIFSC-55)]

Download or read book Results of a Pilot Study to Improve Intercept Surveys in the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishery written by Hongguang Ma and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey (HMRFS, which is part of Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey, MRFSS) is conducted by the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources. Alternative estimation procedures for MRFSS intercept data developed by Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) nationally did not include HMRFS. The main objective of this project study was to evaluate the HMRFS protocol and data to determine whether the new national MRIP methods for catch rate estimation could be directly applied to HMRFS. This pilot project was used to contract a data analyst mainly for data/program review, and it was anticipated that results from this project would benefit future and other ongoing studies"--Executive summary. [doi:10.7289/V5XG9P4S (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5XG9P4S)]

Download or read book Hawaii Marine Recreational Fisheries Survey written by Stewart D. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Estimating Catch Weight of Reef Fish Species Using Estimation and Intercept Data from the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey written by Ivor Douglas Williams and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The goal of the work covered in this report was to use information gathered by NOAA's Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) to generate reef fish catch estimates during the years 2004-2011 in Hawaii. The goal is to provide an explicit and transparent means to generate substitution weights (i.e., a mean weight per fish caught per taxon and fishing mode) for MRIP expansion records that include estimated harvest (number of fish caught) but not estimated catch weight"--Objectives and background.

Download or read book Attitudes and Preferences of Hawaii Non commercial Fishermen written by Leila Madge and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "NOAA's Saltwater Recreational Fishing Attitudes and Preference Survey is a national survey focusing specifically on understanding saltwater fishermen's attitudes and preferences regarding the management of recreational (non-commercial) fishing opportunities. The national survey was created by NOAA Fisheries economists, regional recreational fishing coordinators, and key recreational fishing stakeholder groups. The survey was tested by four focus groups (held in Florida and California) and implemented for the first time across six coastal regions of the mainland United States in 2013, although Hawaii was not included in this initial effort. Due to fishing characteristics considered unique to Hawaii, the survey instrument was modified by Honolulu-based staff from NOAA Fisheries, the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, and community members. The Hawaii version of the survey was implemented in 2015. The sample frame (list of potential respondents) for the Hawaii survey was developed through the use of several state and federal registries and supplemented by field efforts to identify noncommercial fishermen, in particular, those who are primarily shore-based. Due to these nonprobabilistic sampling methods, results should be considered in the context of the survey respondents, and there are no efforts made to generalize results to the non-commercial fishing population. Surveys were distributed to 3,500 potential respondents and administered through a modified Dillman approach (Dillman, 1978). Surveys that were completed by fishermen who self-identified as non-residents (question 1) or commercial fishermen (question 3) were considered invalid and not included in the analysis, in total 1,128 (36% response rate) returned surveys were considered valid and used in this analysis"--Executive Summary. [doi:10.7289/V5/TM-PIFSC-58 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-PIFSC-58)]

Download or read book Recreational Fishing written by Robert G. Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 1987 Hawaii Commercial Fishing Survey written by Robert F. Harman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experimental Valuation of Recreational Fishing in Hawaii written by Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.). Honolulu Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of the Marine Recreational Information Program written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-08-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is responsible for collecting information on marine recreational angling. It does so principally through the Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP), a survey program that consists of an in-person survey at fishing access sites and a mail survey, in addition to other complementary or alternative surveys. Data collected from anglers through MRIP supply fisheries managers with essential information for assessing fish stocks. In 2006, the National Research Council provided an evaluation of MRIP's predecessor, the Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS). That review, Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods, presented conclusions and recommendations in six categories: sampling issues; statistical estimation issues; human dimensions; program management and support; communication and outreach; and general recommendations. After spending nearly a decade addressing the recommendations, NMFS requested another evaluation of its modified survey program (MRIP). This report, the result of that evaluation, serves as a 10-year progress report. It recognizes the progress that NMFS has made, including major improvements in the statistical soundness of its survey designs, and also highlights some remaining challenges and provides recommendations for addressing them.

Download or read book Eastland Fisheries Survey written by Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marine Fisheries Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Preliminary Results of the Hawaii Small boat Fisheries Survey written by David C. Hamm and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Marine Preserve Survey Island of Hawaii written by Hawaii. Division of Fish and Game and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of Recreational Fisheries Survey Methods written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-07-13 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreational fishing in the United States is an important social and economic component of many marine fisheries, with an estimated 14 million anglers making almost 82 million fishing trips in 2004. Although each individual angler typically harvests a small number of fish, collectively these sport fisheries can take a significant fraction of the yearly catch-in some cases more than commercial fisheries. For example, in 1999, recreational fishing accounted for 94% of the total catch of spotted sea trout, 76% of striped bass and sheephead, and 60 percent of king mackerel. It is important that systems used to monitor fishing catch are adequate for timely management of recreational fisheries. However, the large number of anglers and access points makes monitoring recreational fishing much more difficult than monitoring commercial fishing. This report reviews the types of survey methods used to estimate catch in recreational fisheries, including state/federal cooperative programs. The report finds that both telephone survey and onsite access components of the current monitoring systems have serious flaws in design or implementation. There are also several areas of miscommunication and mismatched criteria among designers of surveys, data collectors, and recreational fisheries. The report recommends that a comprehensive, universal sampling frame with national coverage should be established, and that improvements should be made in statistical analysis of the data collected and in the ways the data are communicated. A permanent and independent research group should be established and funded to evaluate the statistical design and adequacy of recreational fishery surveys and to guide necessary modifications or new initiatives.

Download or read book Summary of Pacific Area Input to the Eastland Fisheries Survey written by Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Design and Implementation of a Bottomfish Fishery independent Survey in the Main Hawaiian Islands written by Benjamin L. Richards and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Commercial and recreational fishing are important to the economy and culture of Hawaii. The deep-slope bottomfish commercial fishery preferentially targets seven high value 'Deep-7' species (i.e, six snappers and one grouper, hereafter referred to as bottomfish). The NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Stock Assessment Program is responsible for regularly conducting assessments of bottomfish. The stock assessment process requires reliable time-series of catches, fishing effort and life history demographics to estimate stock abundance trends and evaluate sustainability benchmarks. Current bottomfish stock assessments that rely solely on fishery-dependent abundance indices may be biased (Ault et al., 2014). A series of workshops convened in 2001-2005 evaluated existing bottomfish stock assessment methodologies in the Pacific Islands Region (PIR; Mace et al., 2001; Ralston et al., 2004). Mace et al. (2001) noted that the greatest impediment to credible bottomfish stock assessments was the lack of accurate and precise input data. To improve abundance estimates, Ralston et al. (2004) recommended development of a fishery-independent survey using available 'advanced technologies'. A 2005 workshop on Ecosystem Science and Management Planning reiterated the pressing need for a design and implementation of population-level fishery-independent survey to obtain size-structured abundance data for bottomfish, and to aggressively pursue development of length-based assessment models. This goal of this technical report was to improve stock assessments through optimal design and implementation of a bottomfish fishery-independent survey for the Deep-7 bottomfish complex in the main Hawaiian Islands (MHI) with three primary objectives: 1. Evaluate the most effective survey gears for obtaining species-specific spatial size structured abundance metrics of the Hawaiian bottomfish stock; 2. Conduct quantitative gears intercalibration studies to determine the relative fishing power of the multiple gears to be used in the survey; 3. Detail the required methodologies for efficient conduct of a multi-gear fishery-independent Survey of the MHI bottomfish stocks"--Executive summary. [doi:10.7289/V5RR1W87 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5RR1W87)]