Tracking Economic Performance Indicators for Small Boat Fisheries in American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

This report presents trends in economic performance indicators for small boat fisheries in American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) from 2009 to 2017.

The primary data sources of the economic performance indicators were collected through the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) economic data collection programs’ add-on to the boat-based creel surveys, implemented through collaborative efforts of the PIFSC Ocean Synthesis and Human Dimensions Program, the Western Pacific Fisheries Information Network (WPacFIN), and local fisheries agencies in the three island areas that regularly collect fishing catch and effort data through creel surveys.

We established the trip-level cost data collection programs in collaboration with existing data collection vehicles that were already gathering fisheries-related data on a continuous basis.

The trip cost survey is an add-on to the boat-based creel survey with a voluntary, in-person intercept interview, following the same sampling methodology as the creel survey. 

Chan HL, Pan M. 2019. Tracking Economic Performance Indicators for Small Boat Fisheries in American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-79, 76 p.  https://doi.org/10.25923/8etp-x479.