Bottomfish Tagging and Recapture Data for Hawaii and Guam

Main Hawaiian Islands and Guam are the geographic focus of this dataset. It contains tagging and recapture records for bottomfish species from research fishing efforts. The data were collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration over multiple contracts, spanning from 2005 to 2015.

Use Cases

• Analyzing fish movement patterns based on tagging and recapture location coordinates.
• Studying fish growth rates based on fork length measurements at capture and recapture.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of barotrauma mitigation techniques mentioned in the description.
• Mapping fishing activity and recapture events based on island and coordinate location data.

Strengths

• Includes data from two distinct regions: the Main Hawaiian Islands and Guam.
• Contains a decade of temporal coverage from 2005 to 2015.
• Records multiple attributes per event, such as species, depth, location, and fisher.

Limitations

• The description notes the recapture information dataset has not been extensively QC'd, particularly for length and location of first capture.
• Data fields were not necessarily entered for every event due to collection over multiple contracts.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Collection Method

Research fishing and intensive tagging efforts.

Time Range

2005-2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-14 22:59:31.940836; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Main Hawaiian Islands and Guam