Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys
Pitlik TJ. 1998. Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys. Territory of Guam DAWR. Guam
Monthly inshore fisheries surveys were conducted along Guam’s shoreline from October 1997 through September 1998. The total estimated inshore fisheries catch for this time period was 49.5 mt (metric tonnes), 88% 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 57% of the total participation (excludes seasonal mañåhak and atulai data) or 42,330 participants. In terms of catch rate, snorkel spearfishing was the most successful of all the daytime methods, yielding approximately 2.41 kg/gear-hour (gh) with a daytime harvest of 5.6 mt, and drag net was the most successful nighttime fishing method, yielding approximately 10.18 kg/gh with a nighttime harvest of 0.26 mt. Hook and line was the most successful method in terms of the overall harvest, yielding approximately 0.22 kg/gh with a total harvest of 17.4 mt. The seasonal mañåhak and achemsom catch was not surveyed in FY98.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Pitlik, Todd
- Date of Issue
- 1998
- Publisher
- Territory of Guam DAWR
- Units
- WAPA
- Keywords
- Animal Studies, Conservation, Finfish, Fisheries Management, Guam, harvest surveys, Invertebrates, Marine Reserves, scuba, spearfishing