"The following tables represent effort, retained catch (kept) and discards as reported on longline logsheets for the American Samoa limited-access longline fishery. The following figures represent quarterly data for effort, catch (kept) and catch-per-unit-effort (CPUE) from 1997 to 2015. Effort and catch effort statistics are based on date of longline haul. Effort and catch statistics are based on logbook data submitted to the PIFSC, FRMD and represent an Oracle table LLDS_REPORT_STATS_AS database extraction done on February 29, 2016"--from title page. [doi:10.7289/V57P8WDB (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V57P8WDB)]

http://doi.org/10.7289/V57P8WDB

Technical Report

American Samoa

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)