AFSC Community Profiling Mapping Application

Jan 072013
 
Published January 7, 2013

AKFIN has been working with social scientists from the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) to develop a reporting dashboard in AKFIN Answers (Oracle Business Intelligence reporting tool) to support the Community Profiles for North Pacific Fisheries – Alaska, a NOAA technical memorandum scheduled for publication in early 2013.  The AKFIN Answers reporting dashboard is supported by a specially designed database repository that contains hundreds of census, commercial, recreational, and subsistence metrics calculated by year and Alaskan community for 2000-2010.

 

More recently, these AKFIN Answers data exports were used to source an online mapping application that spatially represents commercial fishing activity by Alaskan community.  These interactive maps show such statistics as landings by port, residency of state and federal permit holders, and vessel ownership to name a few.

In addition to summarizing commercial data, AFSC programmers are working to include a subset of the subsistence and recreational statistics reported in the profiles, to be released at a later date.

Groundfish Economic SAFE Report (2012)

Nov 262012
 
Published November 26, 2012

The draft 2012 economic status report of the Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) Report for the North Pacific groundfish fisheries was recently prepared for the September Groundfish Plan Team meeting. The report presents information on various economic characteristics of the commercial groundfish fisheries in the BSAI and GOA regions, including harvest and processing activity; prohibited species catch; ex-vessel and first wholesale value; and fishing effort. The 2012 economic status report will be presented at December meeting of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.

AKFIN provided programming, database management, and project management support to the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Economics and Social Science Program in production of the report. Efforts to standardize ex-vessel pricing methods in the SAFE with other agency pricing methods are ongoing and being facilitated through AKFIN’s gross earnings workgroup.

Alaska Fishing Fleet Profiles (2010)

Sep 052012
 
Published September 5, 2012

The North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) and AKFIN collaborated on a project that profiled 16 different Alaska commercial fishing fleets and the Gulf of Alaska charter halibut fleet. The results of this project were published by NPFMC.

  • The report can be downloaded here. 

    • If you would like AKFIN to mail you a hard copy, contact Bob Ryznar at RRyznar@psmfc.org.

    Software upgrade for AKFIN Answers (July 27th, 2012)

    Jul 252012
     
    Published July 25, 2012

    AKFIN Answers is scheduled to have a software upgrade on Friday, the 27th of July, 2012. The system will not be available to users during the upgrade process, which will start at 6:00 AM PST and end at approximately 9:00 AM PST.

    Vessels fishing in both AK and WOC (1999 – 2011)

    Jun 072012
     
    Published June 7, 2012

    AKFIN has developed a database table that includes all commercial fishing vessels that fished in both Alaska and on the West Coast between 1999 and 2011. This table has non-summarized metrics on catch, gear, area, delivery condition, disposition, product types, and revenues for catcher processors and catcher vessels that delivered to motherships and shoreside processors in Alaska and on the West Coast.

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