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Title: Commercial Net Fishing (Estimated Average Annual Catch of Reef fish), 2003-2013

Dates

• Issued: 2016
• Coverage: 2016

Publishers

• Ocean Tipping Points Project

Summary

Nearshore fisheries in the Main Hawaiian Islands encompass a diverse group of fishers using a wide array of gears and targeting many different species. Communities in Hawai’i often rely on these fisheries for economic, social, and cultural services. However, the stress from overfishing can cause ecosystem degradation and long-term economic loss. This layer represents the average annual commercial catch of reef fish by net fishing over the years 2003 - 2013 as reported in commercial catch data collected by the State of Hawai’i, Department of Aquatic Resources (DAR) Commercial Marine Landings Database (CML). “Net fishing“ is a fairly broad category that can include everything from hand nets and throw nets to gill nets and seine nets, however it was not possible to parse out more specific gears due to how DAR reports gear type. Commercial catch is reported to DAR in large irregular reporting blocks, by gear and by species. This layer was developed as part of a geospatial database of key anthropogenic pressures to coastal waters of the Main Hawaiian Islands for the Ocean Tipping Points project (http://oceantippingpoints.org/). Ocean tipping points occur when shifts in human use or environmental conditions result in large, and sometimes abrupt, impacts to marine ecosystems. The ability to predict and understand ocean tipping points can enhance ecosystem management, including critical coral reef management and policies to protect ecosystem services produced by coral reefs. The goal of the Ocean Tipping Points Hawaii case study was to gather, process and map spatial information on environmental and human-based drivers of coral reef ecosystem conditions. Ocean Tipping Points Project. (2016). Commercial Net Fishing (Estimated Average Annual Catch of Reef fish), 2003-2013. Ocean Tipping Points Project. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/vg682nn0523. Please contact the Ocean Tipping Points project in advance of applying these data sets to project work so the PI can track and communicate data uses and ensure no duplicate efforts are underway. When applying these data for publication, please reference and cite the complete journal article, Wedding et al. 2017. This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Subjects

• Oceans
• Hawaii
• Pacific Ocean
• Marine ecology
• Marine ecosystem management
• Marine ecosystem health
• Coral reefs and islands
• Environmental impact analysis
• Coastal ecosystem health
• Reef fisheries
• Reef fishing
• Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

• Bounding Box: BBOX (-160.827431, -154.2423181, 22.5899676, 18.5038255)
• Geometry: BBOX (-160.827431, -154.2423181, 22.5899676, 18.5038255)

Provider

Stanford

Rights

• Access rights: Public

Citation

Ocean Tipping Points Project. Commercial Net Fishing (Estimated Average Annual Catch of Reef fish), 2003-2013. Ocean Tipping Points Project. Raster data. https://purl.stanford.edu/vg682nn0523

Format

GeoTIFF

Languages

• English