Aggregated Roe Herring Catch by Gillnet 1989-2008

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Publication_Date: November 2010

Title: Aggregated Roe Herring Catch by Gillnet 1989-2008

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:

\\POTTER\L$\Data Library\Restricted\CommercialFish\BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_RoeHerringGillnet_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:

Roe Herring catch by Gillnet (aggregated for 1989 to 2008) was prepared with data provided by the Conservation Biology Section, 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.

Purpose:

The purpose of the data is to display complete, up-to-date information on commercial Roe Herring by Gillnet fishing activities along the coast of British Columbia for the BCMCA Atlas and Marxan analyses. This dataset developed with the financial assistance of the British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis (BCMCA).
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:

This data was prepared through appending point catch data for individual years with polygon data representing openings. DFO applied the 3 party rule to roe catch point data for 1989-1997 (pre-pool roe fishery). DFO assumed with the roe catch point data for 1998-2008 (pool fishery) that more than 3 licenses were fishing per pool since they have incomplete licence information. The units for the roe catch is metric tonnes.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1989

Ending_Date: 2008

Currentness_Reference: publication date

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -131.821157

East_Bounding_Coordinate: -122.563433

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.870264

South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.586202

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword: Roe Herring

Theme_Keyword: catch

Theme_Keyword: Gillnet

Theme_Keyword: economy

Theme_Keyword: openings

Place:

Place_Keyword: BC

Place_Keyword: Pacific Ocean

Temporal:

Temporal_Keyword: 1989

Temporal_Keyword: 1990

Temporal_Keyword: 1991

Temporal_Keyword: 1992

Temporal_Keyword: 1993

Temporal_Keyword: 1994

Temporal_Keyword: 1995

Temporal_Keyword: 1996

Temporal_Keyword: 1997

Temporal_Keyword: 1998

Temporal_Keyword: 1999

Temporal_Keyword: 2000

Temporal_Keyword: 2001

Temporal_Keyword: 2002

Temporal_Keyword: 2003

Temporal_Keyword: 2004

Temporal_Keyword: 2005

Temporal_Keyword: 2006

Temporal_Keyword: 2007

Temporal_Keyword: 2008

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_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Sean MacConnachie

Contact_Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Contact_Position: Oceans Project Co-ordinator

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: 4166 Departure Bay Road

City: Nanaimo

State_or_Province: BC

Postal_Code: V9T 6B7

Country: Canada

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 250-756-7265

Data_Set_Credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station

Native_Data_Set_Environment:

Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1 (Build 2600) Service Pack 3; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.1850

Data_Quality_Information:

Logical_Consistency_Report:

DFO applied the 3 party rule to roe catch point data for 1989-1997 (pre-pool roe fishery). DFO assumed with the roe catch point data for 1998-2008 (pool fishery) that more than 3 licenses were fishing per pool since they have incomplete licence information. Where catch point data was located outside of an opening polygon, it was assigned to the nearest opening polygon.

Completeness_Report:

See the Marine Atlas of British Columbia, p149, for reviewer comments and caveats of use.
There is no effort data for roe herring. Roe herring fisheries is a pooled fishery and records are not kept as to how many boats fished. The allocation of effort is a decision made by the pools in terms of who and how many fish the pool quota. This is different than where licences are stacked onto one vessel. For example a group of licences (10) get together to pool their quota (~300 tons). If the first boat catches the entire pooled quota in one set, that's the end of the pool's quota, therefore that pool is finished fishing. What was provided for roe herring is quite different from the other fishery files.

Lineage:

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Conservation Biology Section, Pacific Biological Station

Publication_Date: Dec 2009

Title: Roe Herring Catch Points (Gillnet)

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1989

Ending_Date: 2008

Source_Information:

Source_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator:

Catherine Griffiths, Geographic Consultant under contract to Fisheries and Ocean Canada

Title: Roe Herring fishery openings for Gillnet gear

Other_Citation_Details:

Contract was funded by the BC Marine Conservation Analysis. Openings were digitized for each individual year

Source_Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1989

Ending_Date: 2008

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Obtain all fishery notices and gather opening information at the regional and gear type levels. Create an Excel spreadsheet with all openings listed by year, gear type, local area (Central Coast, Prince Rupert, Queen Charlotte Islands, West Coast Vancouver Island and Strait of Georgia) list all sub-areas and portions of subareas with a description of the locations. Review the excel spreadsheet, refer to Mapster for locations of named points and bays to establish land locations in descriptions. For all openings that lacked any description of the portions of subareas, the RMS for all years were used to obtain better locational descriptions (not all years were available). Using the Statistical Area Version 3 of the BC watershed atlas coastline in ArcGIS 9.2, a new shapefile for the subareas covering the HOA were developed. New line files were created to split the polygons as needed for the HOA for each of the regions. When the HOA was determined the subareas were merged to create the HOA polygon with the unique keycode from the spreadsheet as the identifier. The process for shapefile creation was repeated for the CHS coastline. The shapefiles were compared to confirm they contain the same polygons and labels.
Openings were defined by their position within the statistical sub areas developed by DFO.
There were 160 different polygons over all years. There were 60 portion sub areas requiring the contractor to search for the definitions amongst the fishery notices. Openings were merged as a single polygon. That is if there are 3 subareas and 2 portions of areas these became 1 polygon for the opening with a single ID.

Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: Roe Herring fishery openings for Gillnet gear

Process_Date: February 2009

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Catherine Griffiths

Contact_Organization: Geographic consultant

Contact_Address:

Address: 122 Dover Place

City: Salt Spring Island

State_or_Province: BC

Postal_Code: V8K 1R8

Country: Canada

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 250-537-5642

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 250-537-5643

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cjgrif@telus.net

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

DFO filted catch data through application of the 3 party rule to roe catch point data for 1989-1997 (pre-pool roe fishery). DFO assumed with the roe catch point data for 1998-2008 (pool fishery) that more than 3 licenses were fishing per pool since they have incomplete licence information.

Process_Date: December 2009

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Kristen Daniel

Contact_Organization:

Conservation Biology Section, Pacific Biological Station, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Contact_Position: Herring Data Technician

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data provided to BCMCA as separate files - points (all years) and openings (separate shape file for each year). Infomed that the data is not linked but should be linkable by the unique identifier field PID. However that PID may link to the landing location which may differ from where the fish were caught (in the case of fisheries using packers).

Process_Date: December 2009

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Sean MacConnachie

Contact_Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Pacific Biological Station

Contact_Position: Species at Risk Biologist

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Roe Herring catch points were assigned to specific openings for each year.

Process_Date: January 2010

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Carrie Robb

Contact_Organization: BCMCA

Contact_Position: Data Manager

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Data was aggregated by opening by year to produce total catch values in a given opening between 1989 and 2008.

Process_Date: April 2010

Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Lindsay McBlane

Contact_Organization:

Parks Canada, Western and Northern Service Centre (on behalf of the BCMCA)

Contact_Position: Resource Conservation Technician

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: 93

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

Entity_and_Attribute_Information:

Detailed_Description:

Entity_Type:

Entity_Type_Label: BCMCA_hu_CommercialFish_RoeHerringGillnet_data

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: Shape

Attribute_Definition: Feature geometry.

Attribute_Definition_Source: ESRI

Attribute_Domain_Values:

Unrepresentable_Domain: Coordinates defining the features.

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: MGNT_AREA

Attribute_Definition: DFO Management Area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: SUBAREA

Attribute_Definition: DFO Management sub-area

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: NAME

Attribute_Definition: DFO Management sub area name

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: LABEL

Attribute_Definition: sub area code

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: PID

Attribute_Definition: unique identifier to link openings to catch points

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Area_Name

Attribute_Definition: DFO Management sub area name

Attribute:

Attribute_Label: Total_Catc

Attribute_Definition: sum of all catch for all years

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Dwight McCullough

Contact_Organization: Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator

Contact_Address:

Address: Suite 200 401 Burrard Street

City: Vancouver

State_or_Province: BC

Postal_Code: V6C 3S4

Country: Canada

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 604-666-2044

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Dwight.McCullough@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Resource_Description: Downloadable Data

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Transfer_Size: 2.629

Available_Time_Period:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 1989

Ending_Date: 2008

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20111229

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: Dave Nicolson

Contact_Organization: British Columbia Marine Conservation Analysis

Contact_Position: Project Manager

Contact_Address:

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: info@bcmca.ca

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Metadata_Time_Convention: local time

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