O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Presented by the

Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program

Overview

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Program Partners

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Committees

Coordinating Council

Advisory Committee &

Operations Committee (provide separate

recommendations to Coordinating Council)

Biological Review Panel

Bycatch Prioritization Committee

Commercial Technical Committee

Information Systems Committee

Outreach Committees

Recreational Technical Committee

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Products & Services

Program partner projects

Data Warehouse

Standard Atlantic Fisheries

Information System (SAFIS)

What does ACCSP offer?

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

• Approximately $2M allocated for partner projects each fiscal year

• Projects are intended to advance ACCSP priorities

• Awarded using a competitive, peer reviewed process

Program Partner Projects

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Program Partner Projects

Goals (in priority order)

1. Catch, effort, and landings data (including licensing, permit and vessel registration data)

2. Biological data

3. Releases, discards and protected species data

4. Economic and sociological data

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

• Maine dealer reporting

• Maine Herring biological sampling

• North Carolina data transmission improvements

• New York trips level and quota monitoring improvements

Recent Examples of Program Partner Projects

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Data Collection & Management

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Data Warehouse

• The Data Warehouse is an online database populated with fishery-dependent data supplied by the program partners

• Refreshed as part of the annual Fisheries of the US process

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Commercial Catch & Effort

Data (1950)

Recreational Catch & Effort

Data (1981)

Biological, Bycatch, Socio-economic

What data are in the Data Warehouse?

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Data load process

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Standard Atlantic Fisheries Information System

• SAFIS is a real-time, web-based reporting system for landings and catch on the Atlantic coast

• Originally deployed in Rhode Island in 2003

• All federal dealer started reporting through SAFIS in 2004

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Applications

eDR Mobile versions under

development

(eDR/m)

eTRIPS

The only application with a mobile version

(eTRIPS/m)

e-1Ticket

SAFIS Applications

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

MILESTONE STATUS Deployed in RI 2014

Enhancement to include location collection (MRAG) Summer 2015

GARFO Certification Pending

Deployed to interested partners (CT & MA) In development

Being used in Ocean Use Pilot Project Running

SAFIS Mobile Apps: eTRIPS/m

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

eTrips/M

• Part of the SAFIS system

• Free to ACCSP Partners

• Works on most tablet platforms

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

MILESTONE MAINE STATUS

MASSACHUSETTS STATUS

Beta version (Android, Windows, iOS) released

September 2015 September 2015

Beta testing for dealers (Android)

Pending availability of Android card reader

Started

Beta testing for dealers (Windows)

TBD Started

Beta testing for dealers (iOS) TBD Started

Available in production Spring 2016 Early 2016

SAFIS Mobile Apps: eDR Mobile

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Progress in New England

ME DMR, NH FGD, MA DMF, RI DEP, CT DEEP, & all Northeast federal

dealers progress from:

Trip reports (presented as monthly) to

Mixed trip reports and monthly summaries to

Trip reports (all fisheries)

Most using SAFIS for dealer reporting

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

How are our data used in the Northeast?

SAFIS

NEFSC CFDERS

Preliminary

GARFO

Quota and Compliance

Data Warehouse

NEFSC CFDERS

Landings and Trip

Data collected by

ACCSP are used

extensively by both

GARFO and the

NEFSC.

Transfers occur daily

and ACCSP data are

always available to

them.

(CFDERS = Commercial Fisheries Dealer Electronic Reporting System)

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

How are the data used?

Quota Monitoring/Compliance

• Up-to-date information on species caught and the impact on fisheries

• Confidential access to data-of-record by fishermen & dealers

• Partner-owned data (e.g., participants, online permits, & vessels)

Fisheries Management

• Stock assessments

• Briefings for ASMFC, regional councils, & advisory panels

• Congressional requests

• Fisheries of the US

• Biological opinion for Endangered Species Act listing

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Made available to public …

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Future Directions

• SAFIS Visioning Project

– Coincide with NE effort

– Multiple points of entry

– Additional modules (biological and observer)

– Integrated reporting

• Continued expansion

– Currently building hand held tools

• Closer integration with program partners

O u r v i s i o n i s t o b e t h e p r i n c i p a l s o u r c e o f f i s h e r i e s - d e p e n d e n t i n f o r m a t i o n

o n t h e A t l a n t i c c o a s t t h r o u g h t h e c o o p e r a t i o n o f a l l p r o g r a m p a r t n e r s .

Questions?