Vessel Operating Units (Vessels)

Description

This data set contains data for vessels that are greater than five net tons and have a current US Coast Guard documentation number. Beginning in1979, the NMFS initiated a system to conduct an annual survey to inventory all of the vessels that actively fished in commercial fisheries during the previous calendar year. The survey is conducted by port agents that are located at fishing port throughout the Southeast Region. They record the physical information about the vessels, e.g., length, age, horsepower, etc., as well as gathering information about the fishing characteristics of the vessels, e.g., type and amount of gear, number of crew, etc. Often the physical characteristics of the vessels are retrieved from the data maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard as part of their vessel documentation program. In recent years, much of the fishing characteristics are retrieved from either trip ticket and/or logbook data

Resources

Name Format Description Link
33 NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nmfs/sefsc/dmp/pdf/5380.pdf
0 View the complete metadata record on InPort for more information about this dataset. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/5380
0 The information provided on this page seeks to define how the GCMD Keywords are structured, used and accessed. It also provides information on how users can participate in the further development of the keywords. https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/find-data/idn/gcmd-keywords

Tags

  • effort
  • fishery-dependent
  • vessel operating units
  • north carolina
  • mississippi
  • noaa
  • gear
  • southeast fisheries science center
  • south carolina
  • crew size
  • fishdep
  • doc/noaa/nmfs/sefsc
  • gulf of mexico
  • u.s. department of commerce
  • texas
  • national marine fisheries service
  • atlantic
  • vessel counts
  • state
  • florida
  • county
  • 1979-present
  • louisana
  • alabama
  • georgia
  • non-environmental data

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