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Background and PIFSC Response: Programmatic Review of the Commercial Fisheries Bio-sampling Program January 26–28, 2016 Garapan, Saipan
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2016
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Series: Administrative report H ; 19-01
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Description:As a result of the Reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 2006 (MSA), NOAA Fisheries received funding from Congress to establish fisheries monitoring to assist in establishing science based annual catch limits (ACLs). As part of the additional monitoring, the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) established a commercial fisheries bio-sampling program within the US territories of Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The primary goals were to obtain detailed species identification; length- and weight-frequency data; fishing locations and trip-level effort data (e.g. hours fished by gear type) for the commercial catch; and to collect and analyze biological samples to determine life history characteristics starting with the most important commercial species. These data have been collected and utilized to help sustainably manage federal and insular fisheries within the US Pacific Islands region, meeting requirements under MSA. Founded upon these goals, the unique cultural, market, and fisheries characteristics of each insular area shaped development of each territorial program, as it exists today.
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