• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This study presents an economic and social profile of pelagic fishing tournaments held in Hawaii during 2018, and examines the economic contributions generated by these events to Hawaii, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains data that were collected by trained observers aboard Japanese pelagic longline vessels operating in the US EEZ. Observers collected information on the catch, bycatch, and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

This data set contains data that were collected by trained observers aboard domestic pelagic longline vessels operating in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic. Observers collected information...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2016-01-25T00:00:00.000+00:00

Location of fish aggregation device (FAD) buoys within the Main Hawaiian Islands. Fishermen in Hawaii and other parts of the world have long known that tunas and other pelagic fishes are...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-12-03T01:00:28.000+00:00

Contains information collected such as: lengths, weights, sex, quantity, species, etc. from various bottomfish and pelagic species during frequent visits to the United Fishing Agency Fish Auction...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-07-20T00:00:00.000+00:00

This is a time-series dataset of trip expenditure data including actual fishing trip expenses, input usage, and input prices, for boat-based reef fish, bottomfish, and pelagic fisheries in CNMI,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-09-30T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Guam Commercial Fisheries Biosampling program, which collects length and weight frequency data for whole commercial catches, and samples 4-8 species for in-depth life history studies as well...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-08-11T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Peru National Fisheries Society (SNP) is a private union organization that consolidates the leadership of Peruvian industrial fishing, bringing together different actors involved in the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Species identification, morphometrics, tagging information, hooking locations, and gear and interaction characteristics are recorded by fisheries observers and NMFS researchers during incidental...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Swordfish have been a commercially caught species since the early 1800s. During this early stage of the fishery, harpoon was the principal gear and the fishing was limited to the northeastern...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2022-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The data described here include prey item identifications and specifications from dissected stomachs of bigeye tuna, mahi mahi, and swordfish. These data were gathered around the North Pacific...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This layer is intended to represent the geographic extent of NOAA Fisheries’ California Current Ecosystem Survey. The California Current Ecosystem Survey started in 2006 and is led by NMFS...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000+00:00

A broad-scale, baseline acoustic-trawl surveys of pelagic fishes were conducted in late summer 2013 over the continental shelf of the ice-free U.S. northern Bering and Chukchi Seas on the F/V...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This layer is intended to represent information collected during NOAA Fisheries’ California Current Ecosystem Survey. The California Current Ecosystem Survey started in 2006 and is led by NMFS...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2015-11-19T00:00:00.000+00:00

On the Atlantic Coast from Maine to Virginia, NOAA Fisheries uses the Large Pelagics Survey (LPS) to measure the total recreational catch of large pelagics fish including tunas, billfish,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-12-03T01:00:28.000+00:00

This data set contains the logbook data of U.S. longline vessels based in Hawaii from 1990 to the present that fish in the central Pacific (120 deg W - 170 deg E and 50 deg N - 20 deg S). Tunas...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-01-12T00:00:00.000+00:00

A broad-scale, baseline acoustic-trawl surveys of pelagic fishes were conducted in late summer 2012 over the continental shelf of the ice-free U.S. northern Bering and Chukchi Seas on the F/V...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2021-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program (CBTP) is a conventional mark-recapture research venture between National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program (Rockfish Program) on June 14, 2010, to replace the expiring Pilot Program. The Rockfish Program...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2002-12-31T00:00:00.000+00:00

Between March 2001 and January 2002, available Hawaii pelagic longline vessel owners and/or operators were interviewed at Kewalo Basin and Honolulu Harbor to obtain cost and revenue information to...

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