PIFSC report on the American Samoa limited-access longline fishery from 1 January to 31 December 2016

"The following tables represent effort, retained catch (kept), and discards as reported on longline logsheets for the American Samoa limited-access longline fishery. Effort and catch-effort statistics are based on date of longline haul. Effort and catch statistics are based on logbook data submitted to the PIFSC, FRMD and represent an Oracle table LLDS_REPORT_STATS_AS database extraction done on 15 February 2017. When a statistic (number of vessels, trips) can involve dates of haul in 2 summary periods (i.e. years, semi-annual, quarters) the item is counted in both summary periods. Thus, a trip total is for "partial and completed" trips. As such, these statistics are not additive (i.e. sum of 4 quarters is not the total for the year, etc)." [doi:10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-004 (http://doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-004)] Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. "Issued 2 March 2017." System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. 2017 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) Submitted http://doi.org/10.7289/V5/DR-PIFSC-17-004 Public Domain 1930