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D. DATA SOURCES AND ISSUES
Pages 188-198

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From page 188...
... The CASMAIN data base is a coded summary of incidents reported on Coast Guard Marine Casualty Reports. While the CASMAIN data do not cover all commercial fishing vessels or injuries, they provide sufficient information to demonstrate that there are significant safety concerns in commercial fishing, and are useful for identifying the nature and proximate causes of vessel and 188
From page 189...
... Records of these events are on file for 3 years at marine safety offices, after which they are permanently filed with the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Evaluation Branch, Marine Investigations Division, in Washington, D.C. More than 1,000 reports are filed each year for incidents on commercial fishing industry vessels.
From page 190...
... CASMAIN cause data, while incomplete, are nevertheless the best source of cause data for fishing industry vessel casualties. CASMAIN data coding allows for up to seven cause categories, but in practice, supplemental data identifying contributing or underlying factors to casualties are entered for only about 30 percent of recorded cases.
From page 191...
... Its function to provide data support for maritime law enforcement activities is oriented toward drug and fisheries enforcement. It records the number of boardings of commercial fishing industry vessels by Coast Guard forces.
From page 192...
... Thus, some violations reported by boarding officers-estimates range from 5 to 15 percent-are screened out as technical nonviolations of pollution and uninspected vessel regulations prior to submitting violation reports for civil penalty action. As a result, SEER data have limited utility for safety analysis, though they proved useful for assessing the scope of underway boarding activity affecting commercial fishing industry vessels.
From page 193...
... OSHA has enabling authority to regulate occupational safety and health aboard certain uninspected fishing industry vessels that are not inspected by the Coast Guard. So far, the Coast Guard has not preempted OSHA with regard to regulation of uninspected fishing vessels (see Expert, 1989)
From page 194...
... Moreover, claims submitted to any particular insurance company are not necessarily representative of the types of incidents occurring in the fishing industry as a whole. However, not all companies have participated in sending this information to the CFCR, and since even these participating companies do not send records of all claims, the CFCR data cannot be considered a representative sample of injuries occurring in the commercial fishing industry.
From page 195...
... Proportional statistics hold promise for monitoring changes in the fishing industry, but have been applied in only one state. Plans for Development of New Data Sources Recognizing the lack of data on commercial fishing occupational illnesses and injuries, the Commercial Fishing Industry Vessel Safety Act of 1988 (CFIVSA)
From page 196...
... These data are collected by the states and include the number of landings, specific data on the vessel's state of registry, port operated from, vessel information including whether documented or state-numbered- species landed, and date. The data are provided by the states to the NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, and the NMFS Northwest and Alaska Fisheries Science Centers in Seattle, Washington, and archived in the PACFIN research data base in Seattle.
From page 197...
... Nevertheless, it provides useful information about injuries occurring in the Alaska commercial fishing industry. Hawaii/Southwest Pacific Region Fish landing data for this region are included in the PACFIN data but are based on an interview system and the port of offloading.


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