Fisheries resource assessment of the Mariana archipelago, 1982-85
Polovina JJ, Moffitt RB, Ralston S, Shiota PM, Williams HA. 1985. Fisheries resource assessment of the Mariana archipelago, 1982-85. Marine Fisheries Review. 47(4):19-25
The Resource Assessment Investigation of the Mariana Archipelago (RAIOMA) was a 5-year program initiated by the Honolulu Laboratory of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Southwest Fisheries Center in 1980 to quantify the distribution and sustainable yield of insular fishery resources with commercial potential in the Mariana Archipelago. To identify fishery resources with commercial value or potential, data from the commercial landings collected by the Governments of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas together with data from earlier research cruises were used to rank species of fish by their economic potential and importance to the subsistence fishery. Four species groups were thus identified as important fishery resources in the Marianas: 1) Tunas, 2) deepwater snappers and groupers, 3) deepwater shrimp Heterocarpus spp., and 4) akule or bigeye scad, Selar crumenophthalmus.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Polovina, Jeffrey; Moffitt, Robert; Ralston, Stephen; Shiota, Paul; Williams, Happy
- Units
- AMME , PACN , WAPA
- Keywords
- big-eye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), deepwater shrimp (Heterocarpus), Fisheries, Grouper, Guam, Mariana archipelago, Marine Resources, Saipan, Snapper, Tuna