Linking real world fisheries datasets for mapping of revenue from fishing grounds to dependent communities

O'Farrell, Shay; Perruso, Larry; Sanchirico, James N.; Chollett, Iliana

doi:10.1139/cjfas-2023-0123

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Linking real world fisheries datasets for mapping of revenue from fishing grounds to dependent communities

2023
By O'Farrell, Shay ; Perruso, Larry ; Sanchirico, James N. ; ...

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Journal Title:

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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O'Farrell, Shay ; Perruso, Larry ; Sanchirico, James N. ; Chollett, Iliana
NOAA Program & Office:

NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
Description:

Mapping the economic value of the ocean is pivotal to understand how marine ecosystems contribute to human well-being and to support fisheries management. We present a framework to analyse fisheries data and map fishing revenues by linking Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) information to logbooks and observer data. We provide a detailed step-by-step methodology and describe different approaches available to fulfill each step, with special notes for the processing of real-world messy data. The framework consists of six processing steps: (1) identifying the target fishery and subsetting VMS data, (2) extracting relevant variables, (3) linking observer and VMS data, (4) identifying fishing activity, (5) linking VMS and logbook data, and (6) extracting derived variables and mapping revenue back to the communities that extracted the resources. Building this framework opens a broad range of applications including marine spatial planning, rapid response analyses, high-resolution stock assessments, and spatially explicit-socioeconomic analyses. We demonstrate the framework in the reef fishery of the Gulf of Mexico, where spatial planning for aquaculture is currently underway.
Keywords:

Aquatic Science Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior And Systematics
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Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2023)
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https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2023-0123
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0706-652X ; 1205-7533
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Canadian Science Publishing
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Journal Article
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