❗ This repository is NO LONGER BEING MAINTAINED AND HAS BEEN ARCHIVED. This code and effort has been moved to https://github.com/afsc-gap-products/gap_products. For New FOSS documentation, see https://afsc-gap-products.github.io/gap_products/content/foss-intro.html. .
The gap_products repository supports code used to create tables in the GAP_PRODUCTS Oracle schema. These tables include the master production tables, tables shared with AKFIN, and tables publicly shared on FOSS.
Emily Markowitz (Emily.Markowitz AT noaa.gov;
EmilyMarkowitz-NOAA)
Research Fisheries Biologist
Bering Sea Groundfish Survey Team
Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division (RACE)
Groundfish Assessment Program (GAP) 7600 Sand Point Way, N.E. bldg. 4
Seattle, WA 98115 USA
The code in this repository is regularly being updated and improved. Please refer to releases for finalized products and project milestones. The FOSS dataset is only updated once a year and may be slightly behind the GitHub repository. This metadata is regarding scripts and data last ran and pushed to the AFSC oracle on June 01, 2023.
Use the below bibtext citation, as cited in our group’s citation repository for citing the data from this data portal (NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 2023). Add “note = {Accessed: mm/dd/yyyy}” to append the day this data was accessed.
## @misc{FOSSAFSCData,
## author = {{NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center}},
## year = {2023},
## title = {Fisheries One Stop Shop Public Data: RACE Division Bottom Trawl Survey Data Query},
## howpublished = {https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/foss},
## publisher = {{U.S. Dep. Commer.}},
## copyright = {Public Domain}
## }
Learn about the different ways to access our data by visiting this repository’s website.
Below are a few packages and products currently using this data. If you have developed a product, performed an analysis, or exhibited this data in any way, reach out so we can showcase your hard work.
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NOAA Fisheries Distribution Mapping and Analysis Portal; NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
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Pull data with python and explore the in-browser visualization tool. Reference their example Python notebook; The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science and the Environment at UC Berkeley, including [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected].
- Aleutian Islands (AI) (Von Szalay and Raring, 2020)
- Triennial (1990s)/Biennial since 2000 in even years
- Modified Index-Stratified Random of Successful Stations Survey Design
- Eastern Bering Sea Slope (BSS) (Hoff, 2016)
- Intermittent (funding dependent)
- Modified Index-Stratified Random of Successful Stations Survey Design
- Eastern Bering Sea Shelf (EBS) (Markowitz et al., 2023)
- Annual
- Fixed stations at center of 20 x 20 nm grid
- Gulf of Alaska (GOA) (Von Szalay and Raring, 2018)
- Triennial (1990s)/Biennial since 2001 in odd years
- Stratified Random Survey Design
- Northern Bering Sea (NBS) (Markowitz et al., 2023)
- Biennial/Annual
- Fixed stations at center of 20 x 20 nm grid
Hoff, G. R. (2016). Results of the 2016 eastern Bering Sea upper continental slope survey of groundfishes and invertebrate resources (NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-AFSC-339). U.S. Dep. Commer. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-AFSC-339
Markowitz, E. H., Dawson, E. J., Anderson, A. B., Rohan, S. K., Charriere, N. E., Prohaska, B. K., and Stevenson, D. E. (2023). Results of the 2022 eastern and northern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey of groundfish and invertebrate fauna (NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-469; p. 213). U.S. Dep. Commer.
NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center. (2023). Fisheries one stop shop public data: RACE division bottom trawl survey data query. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/foss; U.S. Dep. Commer.
Von Szalay, P. G., and Raring, N. W. (2018). Data report: 2017 Gulf of Alaska bottom trawl survey (NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-374). U.S. Dep. Commer. https://doi.org/10.7289/V5/TM-AFSC-374
Von Szalay, P. G., and Raring, N. W. (2020). Data report: 2018 Aleutian Islands bottom trawl survey (NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-AFSC-409). U.S. Dep. Commer. https://doi.org/10.25923/qe5v-fz70
- Groundfish Assessment Program Bottom Trawl Surveys
- AFSC’s Resource Assessment and Conservation Engineering Division.
- For more information about codes used in the tables, please refer to the survey code books.
- Access public data via the Interactive Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) Platform and documentation
- Find past reports in the NOAA Institutional Repository.
- Learn more about other Research Surveys conducted at AFSC.
There are no legal restrictions on access to the data. They reside in the public domain and can be freely distributed.
User Constraints: Users must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Data should not be used beyond the limits of the source scale. Acknowledgement of AFSC Groundfish Assessment Program, as the source from which these data were obtained, in any publications and/or other representations of these data, is suggested.
General questions and more specific data requests can be sent to [email protected] or submitted as an issue on our GitHub Organization. The version of this data used for stock assessments can be found through the Alaska Fisheries Information Network (AKFIN). For questions about the eastern Bering Sea surveys, contact Duane Stevenson ([email protected]). For questions about the Gulf of Alaska or Aleutian Islands surveys, contact Ned Laman ([email protected]). For questions specifically about crab data in any region, contact Mike Litzow ([email protected]), the Shellfish Assessment Program lead.
For questions, comments, and concerns specifically about the Fisheries One Stop Shop (FOSS) platform, please contact us using the Comments page on the FOSS webpage.