Aggregated Roe Herring Catch by Seine 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 Seine 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_RoeHerringSeine_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 Seine (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 Seine net 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: -133.131079
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -123.355559
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 54.112086
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 48.645836
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword: Roe Herring
Theme_Keyword: catch
Theme_Keyword: Seine net
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 (Seine)
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 Seine 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 Seine 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: 76

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
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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_RoeHerringSeine_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: Stat_Area
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Total
Attribute:
Attribute_Label: Catch

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:
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Digital_Transfer_Information:
Transfer_Size: 2.759
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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