Assessing the Accuracy of Logbook Data Using VMS Data in the California Groundfish Fishery
Abstract
I will work with the logbook and VMS data from the 2009 California groundfish fishery
to analyze if fishers are correctly reporting their trawl locations. Once the two
datasets are matched by vessel ID and trip numbers, simple distance analysis will
average the distance between logbook trawl data and their corresponding VMS points.
While error is expected, it is likely that the distances measured will be too small
to make significant difference in analysis when using the fishing blocks described
above.
The two most likely sources of error are the transcription of geographic coordinates
by fishers in the logbook (due to significant rounding of decimal degrees) and the
nature of how the logbook data is recorded. Because the data is two coordinates connected
by a straight line segment there will be disparity between the true trawling path
(which likely follows bathymetry contours) and the straight depiction of the activity.
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Thomas-Smyth, Alice (2013). Assessing the Accuracy of Logbook Data Using VMS Data in the California Groundfish
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