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Science and Its Role in the National Marine Fisheries Service
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The book Improving Fish Stock Assessments emphasized the importance of fishery-independent surveys to provide estimates of abundance that could be used to refine stock-assessment models. Without these fishery-independent estimates, model predictions can be severely biased and unreliable. To conduct such surveys, NMFS must be able to have access to ocean-going vessels that are outfitted with modern equipment. Continued acquisition of these data will diminish some of the inherent uncertainty in our knowledge of fish-population dynamics. Similarly, the report Improv- ing the Collection, Management, and Use of Marine Fisheries Data concluded that Congress should provide adequate funding to develop and implement a database of fisheries data, the Fisheries Information System (FIS), on a regional basis. The FIS would provide a national umbrella for these data as previously requested by Congress and by the Secretary of Commerce. These remain priority items, and Congress should move ahead with these initia- tives.
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Management
English
2002
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