BACKGROUND
Fisheries professionals routinely collect fish data for population monitoring. These data are often collected and analyzed in regional offices. A centralized data management application would be preferable because it provides a central data storage repository of all data for an agency (with backup), standardizes the analysis approach used to produce indexes and metrics generated from the data, and automates the production of these indexes and metrics. A centralized data management application also makes it easy to look at changes to fish populations through time and can provide quality control measures to minimize the impact of data entry errors as new data are uploaded to the system.
SUMMARY OF TECHNOLOGY
This web-based application will store, verify, and analyze fishery data to produce standardized metrics, including figures and tables that can be downloaded for use in management reports or other documents. The program will house data types such as fish sampling data, stocking data, and a database of percentiles for fishery metrics generated from historic data, and calculates fishery metric for any user-selected subset of the data or newly uploaded data. The application will also provide quality control checks to ensure that topographical errors are minimized in the published dataset.
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