California Pelagic Longline Fishery
This data set contains catch and effort, landings, and observer data from longline vessels fishing in the North Pacific outside the U.S. west coast EEZ. Logbooks and landings data are available from 1991 to the present and observer data is available from 2001 to present. California-based longliners target swordfish and bigeye tunas, however, other species of tunas, billfishes, and sharks are also caught.
Complete Metadata
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|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
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|
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| description | This data set contains catch and effort, landings, and observer data from longline vessels fishing in the North Pacific outside the U.S. west coast EEZ. Logbooks and landings data are available from 1991 to the present and observer data is available from 2001 to present. California-based longliners target swordfish and bigeye tunas, however, other species of tunas, billfishes, and sharks are also caught. |
| distribution |
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|
| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:12906 |
| issued | 1991-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
[
"logbook",
"longline",
"marlin",
"pacific islands fisheries science center (pifsc)",
"protected species",
"shark",
"southwest fisheries science center (swfsc)",
"swordfish",
"tuna",
"eastern pacific ocean",
"DOC/NOAA/NMFS/SWFSC > Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA. U.S. Department of Commerce",
"Pacific Highly Migratory Species Data"
]
|
| landingPage | https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/12906 |
| language |
[]
|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 1991-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "Southwest Fisheries Science Center",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| references |
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"https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/swfsc/dmp/pdf/12906.pdf"
]
|
| rights | otherRestrictions, restricted |
| spatial | -115.0,20.0,170.0,50.0 |
| temporal | 1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/1991-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | California Pelagic Longline Fishery |
