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6 Degree of Coordination
6 Degree of Coordination
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Implicit in this recommendation is the need for a greater degree of cooperation and coordination among the managers of the various surveys. This chapter evaluates whether the degree of coordination among federal, state, and territorial survey programs conducted under the MRIP umbrella is sufficient to support implementation of survey methodologies that address the diversity of regional and state needs while maintaining a clear, cohesive perspective on the nation's marine recreational fisheries (Task 4 of the committee's statement of task)
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For example, in the Gulf of Mexico, red snapper have relatively short recreational fishing seasons, which present significant challenges to the MRIP, both in estimating catch and effort as well as in monitoring landings. Other stocks may represent "rare-event species" that occur sporadically in the catch and are not properly estimated by the standard MRIP survey approach.
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The growth in the number of state fish and wildlife agencies that conduct the APAIS survey as contractors under MRIP protocols has enhanced coordination between the MRIP and the states as well as expanded opportunities to adjust the survey to address specific regional and state needs. For example, during the past several years, the MRIP and the Gulf States Marine Fisheries Commission, working closely with the five Gulf of Mexico states, conducted a series of workshops that led to the development and implementation of coordinated pilot studies to evaluate several survey methodologies and approaches for estimating catch and effort for Gulf red snapper, a fishery characterized by short federal fishing seasons (e.g., in 2016 the season was 9 days for private anglers and 46 days for the charter/for-hire sector)
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For example, fish and wildlife agencies in Alaska and Texas administer marine recreational fishing surveys outside of the MRIP framework, because they judge (1) that the MRIP survey -- or family of surveys -- cannot provide the estimates of recreational fisheries catch and effort that are needed for assessment and management at smaller temporal and spatial scales; (2)
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It is our perception that the increased provision of logistical and technical support by the MRIP, as well as the MRIP certification process, facilitate better coordination and integration of new, more specialized surveys into the MRIP survey framework and that regional and state partners are, by and large, satisfied with the level of support and coordination provided. OTHER SURVEY PROGRAMS The NMFS, states, and territorial survey programs conduct several more specialized surveys that fall outside of the MRIP umbrella but require close coordination with the MRIP.
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Harvest biomass and biological characteristics of Pacific halibut by the recreational sector in Alaska and the Pacific Coast are used by the Pacific Fishery Management Council, NPFMC, and IPHC to assess the coast-wide abundance of Pacific halibut and to allocate Pacific halibut harvests between the recreational for-hire and commercial sectors in IPHC areas 2C and 3A in Alaska and to all users on the Pacific Coast. Independent anglers in Alaska are subject to less restrictive individual angler catch measures, as well as the lack of total catch restriction.
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Texas The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) manages and administers the Texas Marine Sport Harvest Monitoring Program, which includes an accesspoint angler intercept survey and roving counts of boats and trailers to produce estimates of private and charter boat fishing landings of finfishes.
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Discussion of an independent survey to support human dimension research falls beyond the scope of this report. Human dimension add-on surveys could introduce further data-collection challenges related to such things as increased respondent burden, increased nonresponse, and item nonresponse rates that might impact stock assessment accuracy and validity.
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and must be based on statistically valid sampling protocols and robust estimation procedures. Adoption of these national standards ensures that, regardless of the specific decisions made by each region with respect to data-collection priorities and implementation, all recreational fisheries survey and estimation methods will withstand a rigorous independent peer review, and the resultant fisheries statistics will meet a baseline (best available science)
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In particular, substantial progress has been achieved in expanding and strengthening coordination and provision of financial, logistical, and technical support (including access to consultants) to state partners through regional Interstate Marine Fisheries Commissions and their associated Fisheries Information Networks, and the Atlantic Coast Cooperative Statistics Program.
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Conclusion: The MRIP has continued to maintain a national perspective for development and implementation of recreational fisheries data collection by establishing and maintaining a certification process for acceptance of regional- or state-specific surveys. This certification process provides a framework for evaluating how the regional and state efforts meet the basic MRIP requirements and produce outputs suitable for stock assessment and management advice.
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