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    • California Pelagic Longline Fishery

    Metadata Updated: May 24, 2025

    This data set contains catch and effort, landings, and observer data from longline vessels fishing in the North Pacific outside the U.S. west coast EEZ. Logbooks and landings data are available from 1991 to the present and observer data is available from 2001 to present. California-based longliners target swordfish and bigeye tunas, however, other species of tunas, billfishes, and sharks are also caught.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
    Reference Date(s) January 1, 1991 (creation), (publication)
    Frequency Of Update annually

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NMFS SWFSC

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date May 15, 2025
    Metadata Created Date October 19, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 24, 2025
    Reference Date(s) January 1, 1991 (creation), (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:12906
    Access Constraints Cite As: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: California Pelagic Longline Fishery [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/12906., Access Constraints: NMFS/SWFSC personnel need a signed Statement of non-disclosure agreement to access the detailed data. There are no constraints on access to summarized data., Use Constraints: All use of the data sets should be cleared with NMFS/SWFSC.
    Bbox East Long -115
    Bbox North Lat 50
    Bbox South Lat 20
    Bbox West Long 170
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update annually
    Harvest Object Id d9a242c0-0b7b-49cf-805d-8bdea30ba13f
    Harvest Source Id bc62ff6c-c119-4409-94c7-7dd202b24462
    Harvest Source Title NMFS SWFSC
    Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
    Lineage CDFW supplies the completed forms or data files to SWFSC for editing, data entry and maintenance
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[170.0, 20.0], [-115.0, 20.0], [-115.0, 50.0], [170.0, 50.0], [170.0, 20.0]]]}
    Progress underDevelopment
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1991-01-01

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