Results of a Pilot Study to Improve Intercept Surveys in the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishery

Download or read book Results of a Pilot Study to Improve Intercept Surveys in the Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishery written by Hongguang Ma and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Hawaii Marine Recreational Fishing Survey (HMRFS, which is part of Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey, MRFSS) is conducted by the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources. Alternative estimation procedures for MRFSS intercept data developed by Marine Recreational Information Program (MRIP) nationally did not include HMRFS. The main objective of this project study was to evaluate the HMRFS protocol and data to determine whether the new national MRIP methods for catch rate estimation could be directly applied to HMRFS. This pilot project was used to contract a data analyst mainly for data/program review, and it was anticipated that results from this project would benefit future and other ongoing studies"--Executive summary. [doi:10.7289/V5XG9P4S (http://dx.doi.org/10.7289/V5XG9P4S)]