Seafood Harvesters support NMFS's switch to mail-in surveys to collect recreational fishing data
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] November 17, 2014
The Seafood Harvesters of America announced their support of NMFS's decision to switch from telephone surveys to a mail-in system in order to collect recreational fishery data from the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
According to the Harvesters' President Chris Brown and Vice President John Schmidt, NMFS's move to the mail-in system is evidence that the agency supports a more reliable data collection system for the recreational sector.
“NOAA’s preliminary findings from an extensive, multi-year pilot project remind us of the trouble we face in assessing the impact that sports fishermen have on our fish stocks, which, in some cases, reveal total effort and catch results that are 2-6 times higher than what was reported...
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