Commercial Fisheries Activity 1988-2012, 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Publication_Date: 20150106
Title:
Commercial Fisheries Activity 1988-2012, 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Online_Linkage: <http://www.mass.gov/eea/mop>
Online_Linkage: <http://www.mass.gov/czm/mapping/index.htm>
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator:
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Publication_Date: 20150106
Title: 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
Online_Linkage: <http://www.mass.gov/eea/mop>
Description:
Abstract:
These data represent the commercial fisheries activity mapped in the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan. This layer was derived from Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) catch and trip-level reports, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Vessel Trip Reports (VTRs), and Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System (SAFIS) dealer transaction reports. The fishing effort and landings values from all sources were combined to create a dataset of commercial fisheries activity from 1988-2012 and were then reclassified into high (top 25%), medium (middle 50%), and low (bottom 25%). High (top 25%) areas were mapped as the high commercial fishing effort and value concentrations of water-dependent use area in the 2015 ocean plan.
Purpose:
These data were used in the development of the 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan.
Supplemental_Information:
The Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan protects critical marine habitat and important water-dependent uses and sets standards for new ocean-based development. In response to the Oceans Act of 2008, the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) issued the original ocean plan in December 2009. The Oceans Act requires EEA to review and update the ocean plan at least once every five years. The 2015 Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan, released on January 6, 2015, is the first formal amendment to the 2009 ocean plan. These data were produced to support the development of the 2015 ocean plan.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Single_Date/Time:
Calendar_Date: 20150106
Currentness_Reference: publication date
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -71.121361
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -69.829333
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.879300
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 41.186925
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: economy
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: coastal zone management
Theme_Keyword: CZM
Theme_Keyword: EBM
Theme_Keyword: ecosystem-based management
Theme_Keyword: EEA
Theme_Keyword: EOEEA
Theme_Keyword: Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Theme_Keyword: fisheries
Theme_Keyword: marine spatial planning
Theme_Keyword: Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan
Theme_Keyword: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Theme_Keyword: MSP
Theme_Keyword: ocean management
Theme_Keyword: ocean plan
Theme_Keyword: Oceans Act of 2008
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: U.S. Board on Geographic Names
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Bigelow Bight
Place_Keyword: Buzzards Bay
Place_Keyword: Cape Cod Bay
Place_Keyword: Gulf of Maine
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay
Place_Keyword: Nantucket Sound
Place_Keyword: North America
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Vineyard Sound
Place:
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NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0
Place_Keyword:
CONTINENT > NORTH AMERICA > UNITED STATES OF AMERICA > MASSACHUSETTS
Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE
Access_Constraints:
None. These data are in the public domain. GIS files are freely available for download.
Use_Constraints:
Public domain data from the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM), an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), are freely redistributable with proper metadata and source attribution. Please recognize the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management as the source of these data. You are not permitted to use CZM's name or to suggest that CZM endorses your project or product, without its express written consent. While efforts have been made to ensure that these data are accurate and reliable within the state of the art, CZM cannot assume liability for any damages or misrepresentation caused by any inaccuracies in the data or as a result of changes to the data caused by system transfers. The user must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of these data with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to these data. NOAA mandated language per federal Data Quality Act (DQA): These environmental data and related items of information have not been formally disseminated by NOAA and do not represent and should not be construed to represent any agency determination, view, or policy.
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: CZM Data Manager
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Data_Set_Credit:
These spatial data were created by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA).
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Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; Esri ArcGIS 10.2.2.3552
Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report: The attribute data were checked for valid values.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
All vector data are presumed to be topologically clean based on a validation of relevant topology rule(s) and visual inspection. No duplicate features exist. The data were visually inspected for missing features and misplaced features.
Completeness_Report:
This dataset contains the entire spatial extent of the commercial fisheries activity mapped in the 2015 ocean plan.
Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report: A positional accuracy report was not conducted for these data.
Lineage:
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: Harvester Reports: DMF Catch Reports
Type_of_Source_Media: None
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 19880101
Ending_Date: 20091231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DMF catch reports
Source_Contribution:
Source information used in support of the development of the dataset.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: Harvester Reports: DMF Trip-Level Reports
Type_of_Source_Media: None
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20080101
Ending_Date: 20121231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: DMF trip-level reports
Source_Contribution:
Source information used in support of the development of the dataset.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: National Marine Fisheries Service
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: Harvester Reports: NMFS Vessel Trip Reports (VTRs)
Type_of_Source_Media: None
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20060101
Ending_Date: 20121231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: NMFS VTRs
Source_Contribution:
Source information used in support of the development of the dataset.
Source_Information:
Source_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System
Publication_Date: unknown
Title: SAFIS Dealer Transaction Reports
Type_of_Source_Media: None
Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20060101
Ending_Date: 20121231
Source_Currentness_Reference: ground condition
Source_Citation_Abbreviation: SAFIS dealer transaction reports
Source_Contribution:
Source information used in support of the development of the dataset.
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
1. Harvester Reports from 1988-2009: Multiple harvester reports and dealer reports were combined to generate a map of commercial fisheries activity. Harvester reported data from prior to 2010 came from a collection of DMF fishery-specific catch reports and NMFS VTRs. The harvester data from 1988-2009 were collected in a manner consistent with the 2009 ocean plan commercial fisheries analysis. Total trips and landings from state waters were aggregated by DMF Statistical Reporting Area (SRA) from each fishery-specific catch report from all available years. NMFS VTR reported commercial fishing trips occurring in state waters between 2006 and 2009 were also collected. Any trips that were also reported on DMF catch reports were removed. If a VTR trip recorded landing fluke, striped bass, sea urchins, lobster (by trap only), black sea bass (by pots only), or scup (by pots only), it was removed. Furthermore, the trip was also removed if gillnets or fish weirs were the reported gear type. The remaining trips were then tallied by SRA and treated in the same fashion as DMF catch report data with the only difference between the two sets of trip counts being that DMF fishery-specific catch reports apportioned monthly trip counts to SRAs according to individual harvest totals, while VTR data counted each distinct SRA/trip combination as a whole trip. Landings from DMF fishery-specific catch reports and NMFS VTRs were converted to ex-vessel value based on the 2012 Massachusetts state-wide landings-weighted average price per pound (by grade). NMFS VTR and DMF fishery-specific catch report data from 2008-2009 were cross-referenced with participants in the trip-level reporting pilot program and any duplication between the reporting programs was omitted.
Process_Date: 20131201
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2152
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1520
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
2. Harvester Reports from 2008-2012: The harvester data from 2008-2012 were collected from both DMF trip-level reports and NMFS VTRs. The DMF trip-level reporting program is complimentary to the existing NMFS VTR program. The program eliminates known data gaps in pre-2010 DMF catch report data and minimizes duplication between federal and state data collection programs. DMF trip-level reporting was initially implemented as a pilot program in 2008 with 10% of state-only lobster permit holders enrolled, and expanded to 20% in 2009 (the remaining permit holders continued to report via fishery-specific, annual catch reports during these years). The program was fully implemented in 2010. At that point, since the DMF trip-level reporting program and NMFS VTR program both collect the same type of data at the trip-level, DMF allowed the exemption of federally reporting vessels from the trip-level reporting program and instead collects those data from NMFS VTRs in order to compose a complete dataset. The only processing required to fully integrate the two datasets is a spatial routine that translates the latitude and longitude coordinates provided on the NMFS VTR to DMF SRAs. Total trips and landings were aggregated by SRA. Trips were calculated in a manner consistent with the method used for the DMF fishery-specific catch reports (1988-2009). This was done because prior to trip-level reporting, trips were reported by month and assigned to SRA based on the proportion of catch from each SRA. Trip-level data can accommodate multiple areas per trip, thus simply summing trips by SRA from trip-level data could potentially inflate the number of actual trips. Landings were converted to live pounds (whole animal, shell on) based on the grade and disposition code reported by the harvester. The live pound values were then converted to values by multiplying them by the 2012 Massachusetts state-wide landings-weighted average price per live pound.
Process_Date: 20131201
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2152
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1520
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
3. Harvester Reports (All): After pulling harvester reported data from all sources and standardizing on trips and 2012 value, the data were merged into a single dataset. The merged dataset was then truncated to only include data from state waters (SRA<15). Value and effort information were then aggregated by catch report source, SRA, and year. In order to construct a cohesive dataset, data gaps in reporting years between the various catch reports needed to be filled. This was done by standardizing the broad analysis time-series according to the minimum and maximum years available in the catch report data. This resulted in a minimum year of 1988, marking the first year of the Bluefin Tuna Purse Seine Catch Report, and 2012, the most recent full year available of DMF trip-level and NMFS VTR data. Gap filling was only required for the fishery-specific catch reports between 1988 and 2005. Only data from full collection years (1988-2007) of the fishery-specific catch reports were used to generate these averages. Gaps were filled by substituting the average value (and trips) for each SRA by catch report source for the available data. DMF trip-level and NMFS VTR data from 2008-2012 were added to these data. This resulted in an estimate of trips and value by year for each SRA that could then be summed across all catch report sources to obtain an annual estimate of value and trips by SRA between 1988 and 2012. These annual totals by SRA were then averaged across the time-series and divided by the square kilometers of their corresponding SRA to arrive at a measure of fishing effort and value per unit of area. These estimates were used for the non-shellfish component of 2015 ocean plan commercial fisheries analysis.
Process_Date: 20131201
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2152
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1520
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
4. Dealer Reports: The shellfish component of the analysis used Massachusetts dealer reported shellfish transactions from the Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System (SAFIS) between 2006 and 2012. Each transaction was considered to represent one fisherman trip. Total number of trips and landings value were tallied by Designated Shellfish Growing Area (DSGA) and averaged over the available years. When no price or value information was provided by the dealer, values were derived by multiplying the live pound landings by the state-wide landings-weighted average price per live pound. The values were then divided by the square kilometers of each DSGA to obtain average trips and landings value per square kilometer.
Process_Date: 20131201
Process_Contact:
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Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2152
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1520
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
5. All sources of commercial fishing effort and landings value data were converted to a 250 x 250-m raster grid and condensed into two layers representing the combined fishing effort across all commercial fisheries, and the combined value of landings generated by those fisheries for the shellfish and non-shellfish components (DSGA and SRA). To prevent the scale of commercial fisheries in one part of the state overshadowing the importance of those in other parts of the state, the planning area was broken into two regions: north of Cape Cod and south of Cape Cod. The two raster layers (combined fishing effort and total landings value) were then reclassified into 10-percentile bins within each of those regions. With the two layers now on the same relative scale, they were added together (i.e., given equal weight). The resulting combination was reclassified into high (top 25%), medium (middle 50%), and low (bottom 25%) categories within each region.
Process_Date: 20131201
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 400
City: Boston
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02114-2152
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1520
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
6. Converted the raster to polygons using the Raster to Polygon tool.
Process_Date: 20140924
Process_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: CZM Data Manager
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Postal_Code: 02114-2138
Country: US
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 617-626-1200
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 617-626-1240
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
7. Dissolved the features based on the GRIDCODE field using the Dissolve tool.
Process_Date: 20140924
Process_Contact:
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Contact_Organization_Primary:
Contact_Organization: Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management
Contact_Position: CZM Data Manager
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Contact_Position: CZM Data Manager
Contact_Address:
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Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
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Postal_Code: 02114-2138
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Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: czm@state.ma.us
Hours_of_Service: 0900 hrs to 1600 hrs EST
Distribution_Liability:
Although every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of these data, errors and conditions originating from physical sources used to develop these data may be reflected in the data supplied. The client must be aware of data conditions and bear responsibility for the appropriate use of the information with respect to possible errors, original map scale, collection methodology, currency of data, and other conditions specific to certain data. In no event shall CZM be liable for any damages, whether general, special, incidental or consequential damages, arising out of your use of these data. Your sole remedy for damages is to stop using the data. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless CZM and its employees against any claim, loss, liability or expense, including attorneys' fees, resulting from loss of or damage to property or the injury to or death of any person arising out of the use of the data. Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the CZM.
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Fees:
GIS and coordinate files may be downloaded at no charge by following links on the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management website (<http://www.mass.gov/czm/>).
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Metadata_Date: 20150326
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Contact_Position: CZM Data Manager
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 251 Causeway Street, Suite 800
City: Boston
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