Commercial Line Fishing (Estimated Average Annual Catch of Reef Fish), 2003-2013

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Abstract
Nearshore fisheries in the Main Hawaiian Islands encompass a diverse group of fishers using a wide array of gears and targeting many different species. Communities in Hawai’i often rely on these fisheries for economic, social, and cultural services. However, the stress from overfishing can cause ecosystem degradation and long-term economic loss. This layer represents the average annual commercial catch of reef fish by line fishing over the years 2003 - 2013 as reported in commercial catch data collected by the State of Hawai’i, Department of Aquatic Resources (DAR) Commercial Marine Landings Database (CML). “Line fishing” is a fairly broad category that can include casting, trolling, hand line, short line and others. These gears were grouped together for consistency with non-commercial catch estimates from McCoy (2015). Commercial catch is reported to DAR in large irregular reporting blocks, by gear and by species.McCoy K. 2015. Estimating nearshore fisheries catch for the main Hawaiian Islands. Thesis. University of Hawai‘i at Manoa.
Purpose
This layer was developed as part of a geospatial database of key anthropogenic pressures to coastal waters of the Main Hawaiian Islands for the Ocean Tipping Points project (http://oceantippingpoints.org/). Ocean tipping points occur when shifts in human use or environmental conditions result in large, and sometimes abrupt, impacts to marine ecosystems. The ability to predict and understand ocean tipping points can enhance ecosystem management, including critical coral reef management and policies to protect ecosystem services produced by coral reefs. The goal of the Ocean Tipping Points Hawaii case study was to gather, process and map spatial information on environmental and human-based drivers of coral reef ecosystem conditions.

Description

Type of resource cartographic, software, multimedia
Form Raster Dataset
Publisher Ocean Tipping Points Project
Publication date 2016
Language English
Digital origin born digital
Map data Scale not given. ; Custom projection W 160°49ʹ39ʺ--W 154°14ʹ31ʺ/N 22°35ʹ24ʺ--N 18°30ʹ14ʺW 160°49ʹ39ʺ--W 154°14ʹ32ʺ/N 22°35ʹ24ʺ--N 18°30ʹ14ʺ, Scale not given ; EPSG::4326

Creators/Contributors

Creator Ocean Tipping Points Project

Subjects

Subject Marine ecology
Subject Marine ecosystem management
Subject Marine ecosystem health
Subject Coral reefs and islands
Subject Environmental impact analysis
Subject Coastal ecosystem health
Subject Reef fisheries
Subject Reef fishing
Subject Hawaii
Subject Pacific Ocean
Subject 2003-2013
Subject Oceans
Subject Biology and Ecology
Subject Environment
Genre Geospatial data
Genre Cartographic dataset

Bibliographic information

Use limitation Please contact the Ocean Tipping Points project in advance of applying these data sets to project work so the PI can track and communicate data uses and ensure no duplicate efforts are underway. When applying these data for publication, please reference and cite the complete journal article, Wedding et al. 2017.
WGS84 Cartographics This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.
Location https://purl.stanford.edu/sm309xd8108

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Use and reproduction
Please contact the Ocean Tipping Points project in advance of applying these data sets to project work so the PI can track and communicate data uses and ensure no duplicate efforts are underway. When applying these data for publication, please reference and cite the complete journal article, Wedding et al. 2017, http://oceantippingpoints.org/our-work/publications.
Copyright
Copyright ownership resides with the originator.

Preferred citation

Ocean Tipping Points Project. (2016). Commercial Line Fishing (Estimated Average Annual Catch of Reef Fish), 2003-2013. Ocean Tipping Points Project. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/sm309xd8108.

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