A comparison of the catch and fishing day statistics from the squid LTRAMP and NMLS databases

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2006

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University of Cape Town

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Long-term rights were recently allocated to 109 companies with a total of 123 vessels in the squid jig fishery. An exercise was conducted to compare information provided in the LTRAMP application forms with that which is captured on the National Marine Linefish System (NMLS). This comparison applies only to the annual catches and days fished per company over the 2002-2004 period. Tables 1-4 present these comparisons and it is the last column, which indicates the percentage of the NMLS data that is reported in the LTRAMP database, that is most important
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