Can observations of fishing vessels from wildlife surveys be used to improve estimates of fishing activity from AIS and VMS?

Huebert, Klaus B.; Kendall, Matthew S.; Mabrouk, Ayman; Dorfman, Daniel S.; Jeffrey, Christopher F.G.; Christensen, John D.; Winship, Arliss J.

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Can observations of fishing vessels from wildlife surveys be used to improve estimates of fishing activity from AIS and VMS?

2024
By Huebert, Klaus B. ; Kendall, Matthew S. ; Mabrouk, Ayman ; ...
Series: OCS Study BOEM 2024-060

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Personal Author:

Huebert, Klaus B. ; Kendall, Matthew S. ; Mabrouk, Ayman ; Dorfman, Daniel S. ; Jeffrey, Christopher F.G. ; Christensen, John D. ; Winship, Arliss J.
Corporate Authors:

United States. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. Office of Renewable Energy Programs. ; National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.) ; CSS, Inc.
NOAA Program & Office:

NOS (National Ocean Service) ; NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science)
Description:

Describing fishing activity is an important component of assessing the economic impact of offshore energy development on commercial fisheries. The objective of this study was to explore a way to improve estimates of fishing activity off the US Atlantic coast by linking two independent types of data: 1) fishing vessel locations from vessel-mounted GPS tracking systems (i.e., automatic identification system [AIS], and vessel monitoring system [VMS]) and 2) fishing vessel locations observed as ancillary data during wildlife surveys (e.g., North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium, Northwest Atlantic Seabird Catalog). The analysis was designed to estimate the proportion of vessel sightings in wildlife surveys that was spatially consistent with synchronous vessel positions interpolated from GPS tracking system data.
Keywords:

Fishing Observations Statistics Wildlife Monitoring Wildlife Monitoring
Series:

OCS Study BOEM 2024-060
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25923/rv8m-6058
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pdf
Document Type:

Miscellaneous
Place as Subject:

Atlantic Coast (U.S.)
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https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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CC0 Public Domain
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Submitted
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