METADATA for RECREATIONAL FISHERIES DATA Identification Information Citation Citation Information Originator: Los Angeles Times Originator: NMFS Fisheries Resource Division Publication Date: 1959-1998 Title: Recreational Sport Fisheries Data for Southern California Geospatial Data Presentation Form: database Publication Information Publication Place: La Jolla, California Publisher: NMFS Other citation Details: Description Abstract: This data set contains the L.A. Times daily summary of Sport Fish catches for the southern California region for 1959-1998 from Ensenada, Mexico in the south northward to San Simeon, California in the north. Purpose: This data set has been compiled as a means for persons interested in the recreational marine commercial passenger sport boat fishery in southern California to look at historical trends in catches effort for various species. The original data has been provided to the Los Angeles Times by individual commercial sport fish landings and carried by the L.A. Times as an informational service to their subscribers. The data set is a fairly complete and objective time series of commercial sport fish catches in the southern California region providing a unique opportunity to look at long and short term trends in catches & effort. The NMFS Fisheries Resource Division has compiled the data for a 40 year time period 1959-1998, and presented it in a format allowing extraction of catch and effort data by date, species, and location. Time Period of Content Time Period Information Single Date/Time Calendar Date: Time of Day: Multiple Dates/Times: Range of Dates/Times Beginning Date: 1959 Ending Date: 1998 Currentness Reference: Complete to 2 years prior Status Progress: In work Maintenance and Update Frequency: Annually Spatial Domain Bounding Coordinates West Bounding Coordinate: 123 East Bounding Coordinate: 116 North Bounding Coordinate: 36 South Bounding Coordinate: 30 Keywords Theme Theme Keyword Thesaurus: Theme Keyword: Angler Theme Keyword: Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Theme Keyword: Sport Fisherman Place Place Keyword Thesaurus: San Diego Santa Barbara San Pedro Place Keyword: Avila Bay Place Keyword: Dana Point Place Keyword: Del Mar Place Keyword: Ensenada Place Keyword: Goleta Place Keyword: Hermosa Beach Place Keyword: Huntington Beach Place Keyword: Imperial Beach Place Keyword: Long Beach Place Keyword: Malibu Place Keyword: Marina Del Ray Place Keyword: Morro Bay Place Keyword: Newport Beach Place Keyword: Oceanside Place Keyword: Oxnard Place Keyword: Paradise Cove Place Keyword: Port Hueneme Place Keyword: Redondo Beach Place Keyword: San Clemente Place Keyword: San Diego Place Keyword: San Pedro Place Keyword: San Simeon Place Keyword: Santa Barbara Place Keyword: Santa Monica Place Keyword: Seal Beach Place Keyword: Ventura Place Keyword: Wilmington Access Constraints: None Use Constraints: None Point of Contact Contact Information Contact Person Primary Contact Person: Richard Charter Contact Organization: NMFS Contact Address Address Type: physical Address: 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive City: La Jolla State or Province: CA Postal Code: 92037 Country: US Contact Voice Telephone: (858) 546-7157 Contact Facsimile Telephone: (858) 546-7003 Contact Electronic Mail Address: Rich.Charter@noaa.gov Hours of Service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Mon to Fri Contact Instructions: Preferably through email Data Set Credit: Los Angeles Times, Southern California Sport Fishing Landings, Landings Security Information Security Classification System: None Security Classification: None Security Handling Description: None Native Dataset Environment: Derived from the Sport section of Los Angeles Times daily newspaper. ___________________________________________________________________________________ DATA QUALITY INFORMATION Completeness Report: Lineage Source Information Source Citation Citation Information Originator: NMFS Data Manager 'Charter' Originator: Originator: Publication Date: 1957-1998 Title: Sport Fishing data Geospatial Data Presentation Form: database Publication Information Publication Place: La Jolla, California Publisher: NMFS / SWFSC Other citation Details: Type of Source Media: SQL Server database? Process Step Process Description: Get paper copies of data from LA Times, data is keypunced by contractor, data is visually verified and edited, data is appended to time series database. Process Date: Ongoing Process Contact Contact Information Contact Person Primary Contact Person: Ron Dotson Contact Organization: NMFS Contact Address Address Type: physical Address: 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive City: La Jolla State or Province: CA Postal Code: 92037 Country: US Contact Voice Telephone: (858) 546-7085 Contact Facsimile Telephone: (858) 546-7003 Contact Electronic Mail Address: Ron.Dotson@noaa.gov Hours of Service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Mon to Fri Contact Instructions: Preferably through email ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION INFORMATION Indirect Spatial Reference: Port ___________________________________________________________________________________ SPATIAL REFERENCE INFORMATION Horizontal Coordinate System Definition Geographic Latitude Resolution: Longitude Resolution: Geographic Coordinate Units: or Map Projection Map Projection Name: Geodetic Model Horizontal Datum Name: Ellipsoid Name: Semi-major Axis: Denominator of Flattening Ratio: ___________________________________________________________________________________ ENTITY AND ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION Overview Description Entity and Attribute Overview: Table: L.A. TIMES RECREATIONAL FISHERIES RELEASED INT 4 CAUGHT FLOAT 8 U_SPECIES NVARCHAR 255 SCODE NVARCHAR 255 ANGLERS FLOAT 8 BOATS FLOAT 8 ZONE NVARCHAR 1 GEOGRAPHIC POSITION SMALLINT 2 U_LANDING NVARCHAR 255 LCODE NVARCHAR 255 DATE SMALLDATE 4 ___________________________________________________________________________________ DISTRIBUTION INFORMATION Distributor Contact Information Contact Person Primary Contact Person: Richard Charter Contact Organization: NMFS Contact Address Address Type: physical Address: 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive City: La Jolla State or Province: CA Postal Code: 92037 Country: US Contact Voice Telephone: (858) 546-7157 Contact Facsimile Telephone: (858) 546-7003 Contact Electronic Mail Address: Rich.Charter@noaa.gov Hours of Service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Mon to Fri Contact Instructions: Preferably through email Resource Description: Distribution Liability: Standard Order Process Digital Form Digital Transfer Information Format Name: ASCII, Excel, CSV, HTML file format Access database upon request. Transfer Size: 20MB Digital Transfer Option Online Option: Web browser ___________________________________________________________________________________ METADATA REFERENCE INFORMATION Metadata Date: 2001/04/04 Metadata Review Date: 2000/04/30 Metadata Contact Contact Information Contact Person Primary Contact Person: Robert Bistodeau Contact Organization: NMFS Contact Address Address Type: physical Address: 8604 La Jolla Shores Drive City: La Jolla State or Province: CA Postal Code: 92037 Country: US Contact Voice Telephone: (858) 546-7055 Contact Facsimile Telephone: (858) 546-7003 Contact Electronic Mail Address: Rob.Bistodeau@noaa.gov Hours of Service: 8:00am - 4:30pm Mon to Fri Contact Instructions: Preferably through email Metadata Standard Name: FGDC CSDGM Metadata Standard Version: version 2 Metadata Access Constraints: none Metadata Use Constraints: none