In This Issue
The FIN newsletter is published periodically by the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

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Editor for this issue:
Jason Edwards, RecFIN
jedwards@psmfc.org

FIN staff

Bob Ryznar, FIN Program Manager
rryznar@psmfc.org

Rob Ames, AKFIN/PacFIN/RecFIN 
rames@psmfc.org

Michael Fey, AKFIN
mfey@psmfc.org

Yan Jiang, PacFIN
yjiang@psmfc.org

Jean Lee, AKFIN
jean.lee@noaa.gov

Niels Leuthold, AKFIN/PacFIN
nleuthold@psmfc.org

Brad Stenberg, PacFIN
bstenberg@psmfc.org

Jenny Suter, PacFIN
jsuter@psmfc.org

Other contributors for this issue

Camille Kohler, neXus Data Solutions

Rick Pannell, Resource Data, Inc.

Jordan Watson, NOAA AFSC


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Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
Understanding our Fishing Communities Through Data
Camille Kohler
The AKFIN and PacFIN programs have collaborated extensively with NOAA social scientists to build data products that support the analysis of fishing communities. PacFIN recently worked with the Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) and Northwest Fisheries Science Center (NWFSC) to develop and implement the West Coast Fishing Communities Socio-Economic Data Model, a set of datamart tables and reporting tools that provide online access to data needed to evaluate the vulnerability of a community.
Partner Perspective: Joining Environmental Data with AKFIN/PacFIN
Jordan Watson
The AKFIN and PacFIN programs have recently worked with the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center to create an integrated dataset joining sea surface temperature observations with fish ticket records and fishery observer datasets. These data linkages facilitate ongoing and future research of commercial fleet and species interactions. Further expansion of this project will incorporate even more fisheries-dependent data elements with environmental variables to improve the availability of this data to NOAA Fisheries and other scientists and managers along the Pacific Coast.
New PacFIN/RecFIN QueryBuilder Application
Jason Edwards
The PSMFC Fishery Information Networks (FIN) continually aim to improve the accessibility and comprehensibility of West Coast fisheries data to our end users. To this end, PacFIN and RecFIN have recently developed QueryBuilder, an online interface that allows users to create customized data reports from the PacFIN and RecFIN databases.

Alaska Fisheries Information Network
Public Access to Economic SAFE Data Through AKFIN APEX Reports
Jean Lee
AKFIN provides data management and database programming services to the Alaska Fisheries Science Center to support the production of Economic SAFEs for  Alaska groundfish fisheries  and  Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands crab fisheries . Now, users of the SAFEs can access published statistics through the  AKFIN APEX Reports tool. These reports allow users to filter, view, and download SAFE data, and provide interactive dashboards for plotting various fisheries metrics.

Pacific Fisheries Information Network
Good Migrations: Highly Migratory Species Update
Jenny Suter
The Highly Migratory Fisheries Professional Specialty Group (HMS PSG) held its annual face-2-face meeting at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA on February 4-6. Also, the 2020 HMS reporting cycle is currently ongoing, and PacFIN has developed a new web-based real-time trip notification application.
PacFIN Biological Data System (BDS) Redevelopment
Brad Stenberg
The redevelopment of the PacFIN Biological Data System (BDS) is complete. Updates to the system consisted of migrations of the legacy BDS tables from the PACFIN schema into the new BDS schema tables, and a transition from a centralized PacFIN specification to an enhanced ETL design. These enhancements to the PacFIN system allow for more comprehensive data sets from each data source accessible to users from a single comprehensive table.
Recreational Fisheries Information Network
New RecFIN Program Manager: Chris Wheaton
Jason Edwards
The Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission is happy to announce the appointment of Chris Wheaton as the new Senior Program Manager as of January 1, 2020. Chris brings a wealth of fisheries management and database experience to the RecFIN program. Please join us in welcoming Chris to his new position!
Pacific Coast Plan Identifies Ways to Improve Regional Recreational Fishing Data Collection Efforts
NOAA Fisheries
This Regional Implementation Plan will inform the Marine Recreational Information Program's work to support fisheries science and management on the Pacific coast.
2020 Spring RecFIN Technical Committee Meeting
Jason Edwards
The RecFIN Technical Committee will hold its Spring meeting in Portland, OR on April 22nd and 23rd. This meeting provides RecFIN the opportunity to meet face to face with its partner agencies to discuss recent and ongoing RecFIN projects and future directions for the program.
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