Research Requests

To incorporate greater data granularity on gear & seasonal based regulations. RFMOs often have seasonal or gear moratoria, can this be checked and reported against? For example, being able to differentiate between purse seine FAD vs free-school

This is just a question more than a request. Is there a way of using the apparent fish effort hours to measure the efficiency of a fishing fleet? For example, ICCAT data gives us the amount of tuna reported caught within the ICCAT Area from ICCAT reporting parties in a given year. GFW data gives us the amount of apparent fish effort it took to catch the reported tuna. From those points I think we could solve that it took X amount of apparent fish effort hours to catch Y amount of tuna basically a Catch-per-Unit-Effort which is a measurement of fisheries sustainability and efficiency. My problem is I am not sure the apparent fish effort hours is suitably to use in this calculation. Do you think the data could be use for the calculation?

Researchers believe that is important to be able to tie fishing activity data with information on fishing communities, including income, population density etc.

Can we incorporate other data, including logbook and landings data? Can the data be tied to vessels, location etc.? This can encourage transparency and enable us to monitor productivity of fish stocks.

Feedback "It would be interesting to have information on the targeted species by shipping vessels, being able to ask for information on ships according to the species of interest"

Is there a way to view whether there may have been two vessels present when a vessel is seen as loitering?