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From page 15... ... In recent years, recreational fisheries have been monitored less rigorously than commercial fisheries. But as concerns about overfishing have grown, more attention has been turned toward the possible impact of marine recreational fishing and the proportion of fish taken by each sector (e.g., National Research Council, 1999, 2000; Lucy and Studholme, 2002; Coleman et al., 2004) Read the entire page →
From page 16... ... Nationally, recreational catch is monitored primarily (but not entirely) through the Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS) Read the entire page →
From page 17... ... . However, concern remains that the data currently being collected through recreational fishing surveys are not precise, robust, or timely enough for the various scales employed in fisheries management. Read the entire page →
From page 18... ... In addition, there are three marine fisheries commissions -- the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, and the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission -- which have various degrees of management and regulatory authority. There are four international commissions that make management recommendations to their governments, including the U.S. Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... Further, catch is assigned to age or size classes based on biological sampling of the catch. HOW CATCH IS ESTIMATED FROM RECREATIONAL FISHERIES SURVEY DATA The data produced by surveys of anglers are used to provide information for stock assessments and to support management decisions. Read the entire page →
From page 20... ... The goal of monitoring all different modes, locations, and species involved (e.g., charter boats versus private boats, offshore versus nearshore species, fisheries with temporally or spatially restricted fishing 1 The type of place or platform from which marine recreational fishing occurs, including fishing from boats sailing from harbors, marinas, and private docks and from shore on piers, jetties, and beaches. Read the entire page →
From page 21... ... The When and Where of Data Collection The current management framework for marine recreational fisheries is highly diverse, depending on species and region. The temporal spectrum of management actions runs from in-season to annual to multi-year, all of which require different data collection and processing strategies. Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... The degree to which the regional fisheries commissions are involved in survey implementation and data collection varies as well. The Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission serves as the contractor for the intercept portion of the MRFSS in that area; whereas the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission is involved in survey design and data handling for its area but is not involved in the actual conduct of the data collection. Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... PSMFC maintains the catch and effort database for the three states with the online Recreational Fisheries Information Network (RecFIN) Read the entire page →
From page 24... ... � Nonresponse error occurs when some sampled units do not provide data, either because they are not located (e.g., not at home in telephone survey) , or they refuse to participate (e.g., will not allow counting or measurement of fish in intercept survey) Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... Other issues that need to be addressed in assessing estimates made from a sampling design are whether the sampling and measurement are being conducted as designed and whether the estimation procedure is matched appropriately to the sample design. For example, are the inter-viewers in the intercept surveys being trained and monitored so that they collect data from a probability sample of anglers? Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... For the MRFSS, these two complementary surveys are the accesspoint angler intercept survey used to determine catch rate and species composition and the coastal household telephone survey used to determine fishing effort. The Puget Sound Sampling Program in Washington, the Shore and Estuary Boat Survey in Oregon, and the California Recreational Fisheries Survey (CRFS) Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... Oregon Recreational Boat Survey and the Ocean Sampling Program (Washington) can be categorized as an access�access survey, as are the private boat and artificial structure mode sampling components of CRFS, where boat counts at a specific location are used to determine effort and Read the entire page →
From page 28... ... Further, other rare event species that were typically undersampled in the MRFSS are now targeted with the Large Pelagic Survey. NMFS, the regional fisheries commissions, and the states have made many advances that have improved recreational fishing surveys in recent years. Read the entire page →
From page 29... ... recreational fishing because that is the interest and purview of NMFS. This report presents general issues and problems with current survey methods and designs in Chapter 2, and Chapter 3 reviews sample design concerns and presents alternative survey methodologies that can be used to improve recreational fisheries data. Read the entire page →

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... In recent years, recreational fisheries have been monitored less rigorously than commercial fisheries. But as concerns about overfishing have grown, more attention has been turned toward the possible impact of marine recreational fishing and the proportion of fish taken by each sector (e.g., National Research Council, 1999, 2000; Lucy and Studholme, 2002; Coleman et al., 2004)

1 Introduction Pages 15-30

1 Introduction
Pages 15-30