Estimated catch, price and value for national fleet sectors from pelagic fisheries in the Lesser Antilles
Catch data are required for estimation of fishing mortality and for representation of fleet dynamics in the Lesser Antilles Pelagic Ecosystem (LAPE) model. The relative extractions by country and fleet type are used to investigate a range of policy scenarios (effort control) for management of shared stocks of pelagic species. A review by the LAPE project concluded that the use of the regional fisheries statistical system (CariFIS) database is still limited and that there remained dat a management issues which were major impediments to full implementation of CariFIS in national fisheries statistics systems. The additional time and technical assistance required to solve these problems are beyond the scope of the LAPE Project. It was necessary therefore to acquire the data by either extraction from international databases at Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) or a re-examination of country data holdings in the variety of software used (CariFIS, MS EXCEL, MS ACCESS). By preference, data were obtained from national sources; however, data were used from the international databases when individual country data proved inaccessible. This report documents the modifications to available data and assumptions made in arriving at estimates of total catch and value of pelagic fisheries in the LAPE region. It is not intended to give a detailed analysis of catches in the region, but rather to provide information in the format necessary
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| Format: | Project biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AJ263E http://www.fao.org/3/a-aj263e.pdf |
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