WPACFIN island data assessment (WIDA) of American Samoa small boat-based fishery survey, 1985-93 and shoreline fishery survey, 1990-93
Kikkawa BS. 1996. WPACFIN island data assessment (WIDA) of American Samoa small boat-based fishery survey, 1985-93 and shoreline fishery survey, 1990-93. Southwest Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report H-96-09. Southwest Fisheries Science Center. Honolulu, HI
Through the years the number of daily boat-based fishing trips declined; gives catch rates for each type of boat based fishing and mean for all methods combined; also determined the number of days required to make accurate estimates; shallow bottomfishes were numerically dominant; estimated maximum sustainable yield which was lower than the catch at the peak of bottomfishing; for the shoreline fishery estimated mean catch rate and the number of days needed to accurately estimate this rate.