Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys (2430)
Pitlik TJ. 1999. Fisheries participation, effort, and harvest surveys (2430). Territory of Guam DAWR. Guam
Monthly inshore fisheries surveys were conducted along Guam’s shoreline from October 1998 through September 1999. The total estimated inshore fisheries catch for this time period was 70.6 mt (metric tonnes), 89% 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 59% of the total participation (excludes seasonal mañåhak and atulai data) or 47,074 participants. In terms of catch rate, other methods were the most successful of all the daytime methods, yielding approximately 1.38 kg/gear-hour (gh) with a daytime harvest of 1.4 mt, and drag net was the most successful nighttime fishing method, yielding approximately 2.31 kg/gh with a nighttime harvest of 0.8 mt. Hook and line was the most successful method in terms of the overall harvest, yielding approximately 0.27 kg/gh with a total harvest of 23.4 mt. The seasonal mañåhak and achemsom catch was not surveyed in FY99.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Pitlik, Todd
- Date of Issue
- 1999
- Publisher
- Territory of Guam DAWR
- Units
- WAPA
- Keywords
- Fisheries Management, Guam, inshore fisheries survey, Observations, Presence (Biodiversity), Recreation, scuba, spearfishing