BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_greenseaurchin_marxan_data

Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Entity_and_Attribute_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada / BC Marine Conservation Analysis, a Tides Canada Initiatives Project

Publication_Date: January 2012

Title: BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_greenseaurchin_marxan_data

Edition: 1

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data

Series_Information:

Series_Name: Marine Atlas of Pacific Canada

Publication_Information:

Publisher:

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project

Online_Linkage:

\\data-server\gis\BCMCA\HumanUse\Repository\Commercial Fish\data\BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_GreenSeaUrchin_data.shp

Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA), a Tides Canada Initiatives Project

Publication_Date: May 2011

Title: Marine Atlas of Pacific Canada

Online_Linkage: www.bcmca.ca/atlas

Description:

Abstract:

The Green Urchin catch and effort grid dataset has been assembled directly from the Shellfish Data Units harvest log database located at the Pacific Biological Station(PBS). The dataset has been modified to meet the sensitive nature of the data as per the Access to Information Act20(1)(b,c); which specifies that Fisheries and Oceans Canada will not disclose to a third party confidential information that may prejudice the competitive position of the fisher, in which fishing location has been identified as one of the entities to be protected. There was a 4km x 4km grid used in the desensitization process as well information was limited to total Effort (hr) and total Catch (lbs). The dataset is comprised of Green Urchin species only and specifically targets the 2000-2005 fishing seasons (Nov-March).

Purpose:

The purpose of the data is to display complete, up-to-date information on commercial Green Urchin fishing activities along the coast of British Columbia for the BCMCA Atlas and Marxan analyses. This dataset was originally developed in fulfillment of a request by the Oceans Action Plan (OAP) committee with the intent to contribute to management plans within the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA). It was subsequently provided to the British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA). Data presented as 2 km x 2 km planning units for MARXAN analysis.
The British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA) is a collaborative project assembling and analyzing spatial information about Canada's Pacific Ocean. The overall goal of the BCMCA is to identify marine areas of high conservation value and marine areas important to human use. Results of the project are intended to inform and help advance marine planning initiatives in BC by providing collaborative, peer-reviewed scientific analyses based on the best ecological and human use spatial data at scales relevant to a BC coast-wide analysis.

Supplemental_Information:

All fishing events have been digitized from paper maps provided by fishermen. The events have been captured as polygon features, to address the sensitive nature of the data mid points along all Green Urchin fishing events were calculated. A single point represents a fishing event even if multiple polygons occur within an event. 100% of the fishing events had latitude & longitude which could be mapped.
Due to the sensitive nature of the data not all of the information in the database can be shown spatially. The data availability for this data set is 89.3%

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 2000

Ending_Date: 2005

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -127.251312

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.870447

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 50.906307

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.310063

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus:

REQUIRED: Reference to a formally registered thesaurus or a similar authoritative source of theme keywords.

Theme_Keyword: Shellfish

Theme_Keyword: Green Urchin

Theme_Keyword: Dive

Theme_Keyword: economy

Theme_Keyword: catch

Theme_Keyword: effort

Theme_Keyword: Marxan

Place:

Place_Keyword: BC

Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword: 2000

Temporal_Keyword: 2001

Temporal_Keyword: 2001

Temporal_Keyword: 2002

Temporal_Keyword: 2003

Temporal_Keyword: 2004

Temporal_Keyword: 2005

Access_Constraints:

A Limited Use Agreement must be completed and returned to Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Use_Constraints: As outlined in the Limited Use Agreement

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: BC Marine Conservation Analysis

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca

Data_Set_Credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 2; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.3500

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

4km x 4km grid cells that meet the requirements of the Access to Information Act two attributes were obtained a total Effort_hr and Catch_lbs per grid cell

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: Effort_hr

Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation:

A total effort in hours needed to catch 'x' amount using the Dive_Time field /60 (convert minutes into hours) from the DiveLogsGrn_urch database

Quantitative_Attribute_Accuracy_Assessment:

Attribute_Accuracy_Value: Catch_lbs

Attribute_Accuracy_Explanation:

A total catch in pounds per species using the Tot_Landing from the DiveLogsGrn_urch database

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Data has been cleaned using a dangle length of .001m and fuzzy tolerance of .0001m A 4km x 4km grid was used with an grid origin of: Easting -27940m, Northing 94650m To meet the sensitivity requirements of the Access to Information Act a count of 3 or more licenses (Tab_Num field used), that were fishing within the same grid cell and within the same fishing season (Year field used) was used *note : this is not a single license per boat fishery, license stacking occurs therefore license instead of vessel was used to resolve sensitive nature of data

Completeness_Report:

See the Marine Atlas of British Columbia, p131 for reviewer comments and caveats of use

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

A 4km x 4km grid was used with an grid origin of: Easting -27940m, Northing 94650m. Grid converted to a 2 km x 2 km grid for the BCMCA Marxan analyses.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

A 4km x 4km grid was used with an grid origin of: Easting -27940m, Northing 94650m

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: PBS Data Unit

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title: DiveLogsGrn_urch

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: tabular digital data

Source_Scale_Denominator: Variable

Type_of_Source_Media: online Database

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 11/2000

Ending_Date: 03/2005

Source_Currentness_Reference: publication date

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

- In ArcMap "Add xy Data" using the Lon & Lat fields from the DiveLogsGrn_urch database - Export the event data to create a point shapefile - Define Projection of the exported DiveLogsGrn_urch shapefile to Geographic Coordinates (Fishermen supplied coordinates) - Reproject DiveLogsGrn_urch shapefile to NAD83 Albers - Within ArcMap imported the new Albers DiveLogsGrn_urch points and 4km x 4km grid polygonal shapefile - Eliminated those arrant points not falling within the Pacific Coastline from DiveLogsGrn_urch shapefile. Errors mostly due to invalid coordinates provided by fishermen - Joined the 4km x 4km grid to the DiveLogsGrn_urch point file based on they're "Spatial Location" - Exported the attribute table from the output shapefile from the join and imported the DBF into the Sensitive.mdb database - Selected the interested season in the "GULicensestep0" query saved & the closed the query - Ran the "GUrchinMacro" in the Sensitive.mdb - Recorded the percentage of data used that met the sensitivity requirements - Exported the results of the Macro as a DBF file - In ArcMap imported the resultant DBF file and joined it to the 4km x 4km grid shapefile using "GridC"(from DBF) & "GridCell"(from 4km x 4km grid) as the join field. Using the "Advanced" option when joining that only includes the joined records - Converted the 4km x 4km grid to a shapefile to make the join permanent - Eliminated all irrelevant fields keeping only the GridCell, Effort_hr and Catch_lbs attribute items

Process_Date: June 2005

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Erick Merner

Contact_Organization: Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Pacific Biological Station

Contact_Position: GIS Programmer Analyst

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 3190 Hammond Bay Road

City: Nanaimo

State_or_Province: BC

Postal_Code: V9T 6N7

Country: Canada

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 250-756-3363

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The individual datasets for Salmon (Chinook, Chum, Coho, Pink, Sockeye), Dungeness Crab, Geoduck, Green Sea Urchin, Groundfish Trawl, Halibut, Herring Roe, Humpback Shrimp, Krill, Pink Shrimp, Prawn, Red Sea Urchin, Sablefish (longline and trap), Sardines, Schedule II, Sea Cucumber, Sidestripe Shrimp and Rockfish Hook and Line were processed following a defined set of parameters and then combined together to provide a per planning unit catch for each individual fishery.
Processing Steps for data are as follows: 1. Have a clean PU file with only the Unit_ID 2. Make sure projection is in NAD 83 Environment Albers 3. Union the PU file with the fishery 4. Remove any polygons outside the study area 5. Add New_Area field + calculate the area in square meters 6. Determine Frequency (Toolbox>Analysis>Stats>Frequency) where the input is the unioned shapefile, the frequency file is FID_commer and the summary field is New_Area 7. Join the Frequency table to the Union Output (FID_commer to FID_commer) 8. Export joined file with new name (use _v2 at the end) 9. Add new field (Catch_PU) as a Double 10. Calculate the Catch per PU: Catch x New_Area / New_Area1 11. Open up the dbf in Excel and save as .xlsx. 12. Insert Pivot Table, Select Unit_ID as the row label and Catch_PU as the ? values. Then select all values for Catch_PU and copy and paste special (values) into new excel worksheet. 13. In Excel, generate full commercial fisheries table by selecting the values from the individual excel worksheets, providing the proper coding, and ensuring the numbers are correct. 14. Save completed fisheries database in Excel as .xlsx, Open the table in Microsoft Access, and re-save as a .dbase IV 15. Open the new .dbf in ArcInfo and join the commercial fisheries table to a clean PU file

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: C:\DOCUME~1\CARRIE~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\xml2E4.tmp

Process_Date: January 2012

Process_Time: 16234600

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Lindsay McBlane

Contact_Organization: Parks Canada, Western and Northern Service Centre (for BCMCA)

Contact_Position: Resource Conservation Technician

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Planning units with a value for the green sea urchin fishery were selected and exported to a new file. Extraneous fields removed.

Process_Date: January 2012

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Carrie Robb

Contact_Organization: BCMCA

Contact_Position: Data Manager

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector

Point_and_Vector_Object_Information:

SDTS_Terms_Description:

SDTS_Point_and_Vector_Object_Type: G-polygon

Point_and_Vector_Object_Count: 227

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Planar:

Map_Projection:

Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area

Albers_Conical_Equal_Area:

Standard_Parallel: 50.000000

Standard_Parallel: 58.500000

Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -126.000000

Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 45.000000

False_Easting: 1000000.000000

False_Northing: 0.000000

Planar_Coordinate_Information:

Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair

Coordinate_Representation:

Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000000

Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000000

Planar_Distance_Units: meters

Geodetic_Model:

Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983

Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80

Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000

Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222

Vertical_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Altitude_System_Definition:

Altitude_Resolution: 1.000000

Altitude_Encoding_Method:

Explicit elevation coordinate included with horizontal coordinates

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_greenseaurchin_marxan_data

Entity_Type_Definition:

Green Urchin 4km x 4km grid 2000-2005 seasons, Greater than two licences per grid

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: ID

Attribute_Definition: Marxan ID

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SHAPE

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: FID

Attribute_Definition: Internal feature number.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain:

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: AREA

Attribute_Definition: planning unit area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: COST

Attribute_Definition: planning unit cost

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: STATUS

Attribute_Definition: planning unit status

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: X512

Attribute_Definition: Catch within the planning unit

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

The 4km x 4km gridcells present in this dataset have met the 3 license rule. The attribute information have been rolled-up per gridcell include the Total "Effort_hr" and Total "Catch_lbs". This shapefile targets the Green Urchin species for the seasons of 2000-2005.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: BC Marine Conservation Analysis

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Contact_Instructions: See www.bcmca.ca for distribution details

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Transfer_Size: 0.008

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: November 2000

Ending_Date: March 2005

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20120117

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Carrie Robb

Contact_Organization: BCMCA

Contact_Position: Data Manager

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address

Address: 1405-207 W. Hastings St.

City: Vancouver

State_or_Province: BC

Postal_Code: V6B1H7

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (604) 696-5044

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>

Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile

Metadata_Extensions:

Online_Linkage: <http://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.html>

Profile_Name: ESRI Metadata Profile