Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys (2430)
Pitlik TJ. 1997. Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys (2430). Territory of Guam, DAWR. Guam
Monthly inshore fisheries surveys were conducted along Guam’s shoreline from October 1996 to September 1997. The total estimated inshore fisheries catch for this time period was 45.6 mt (metric tonnes), 69% of which were finfish (excluding the juvenile rabbitfish or mañåhak and juvenile fusilier or achemsom). Hook and line was the most practiced method accounting for 66% of the total participation (excluding seasonal fisheries data) or 44,774 participants. In terms of catch rate, other methods were the most successful of all the daytime methods, yielding approximately 2.12 kg/gear-hour (gh) with a daytime harvest of 4.6 mt, and drag net was the most successful nighttime fishing method, yielding approximately 1.67 kg/gh with a nighttime harvest of 0.10 mt. Hook and line was the most successful method in terms of the overall harvest, yielding approximately 0.15 kg/gh with a total harvest of 15.0 mt. The seasonal mañåhak and achemsom catch was estimated at 7.1 mt in FY97. An aerial survey and kids fishing derby are also described in the appendices.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Pitlik, Todd
- Date of Issue
- 1997
- Publisher
- Territory of Guam, DAWR
- Units
- WAPA
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Aquatic Sciences, fish harvest, Fisheries Management, fishing derby, Guam, Marine Reserves, Observations, Recreation, scuba, spearfishing