Datasets / Fisheries Logbook System (FLS)


Fisheries Logbook System (FLS)

Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Issued over 9 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

This data set contains catch and effort for fishing trips that are taken by vessels with a Federal permit issued for the swordfish and sharks under the Highly Migratory Species (HMS) fishery management plan. In 1986, the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC) initiated a logbook program for vessels that held a federal vessel permit to fish for swordfish in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. In 1993, a similar program was initiated for vessels with a federal permit to fish for sharks that are included in the HMS fishery management plan. The PLL System for a number of years had data tables with numerous columns that had to be expanded every year. Column Names were like. NUMBER_OF_SWORDFISH_KEPT NUMBER_OF_SWORDFISH_DISCARDED The PLL System was rewritten so that its data was put into the same format as the rest of the logbook data. Please see the dataset under Costal Fisheries Logbook Data for the description of the Oracle data tables.