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Comparison of Length Sampling Programs for recreational fisheries of U.S. Pacific Bluefin Tuna from 2014 to 2020
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2021
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Series: NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC ; 652
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Description:The U.S. recreational fishery for Pacific Bluefin Tuna (PBF) is dominated by commercial passenger fishing vessels (CPFVs), the landings of which are included in stock assessments. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducts a Pacific Bluefin Tuna Port Sampling Program (PSP) and supports the Sportfishing Association of California Fisheries Sampling Program (SAC) to collect length data to describe the length compositions of the CPFV fleet catch for use in the PBF stock assessment. For this study, we: 1) compared the number of PBF and trips sampled and geographic extent of PSP and SAC to each other and to the CPFV logbooks; 2) analyzed the potential overlap between PSP and SAC; 3) compared the length compositions of PBF sampled by the two programs; 4) assessed the effect of weekday landed and predicted future PBF sampling by PSP; 5) investigated the effect on the length distributions of sampling fewer vessels; and 6) explored how representative PSP and SAC were of CPFV fleet landings.
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