# Presentation: 446518

## Imaging and Scanning Historical Fisheries Data

- Climate Database Modernization Program
***Imaging and Scanning Historical Fisheries Data***
*Understanding the Past to Plan for the Future*

**Catherine Marzin**
**Historical Ecology Program Manager**
**National Marine Sanctuary Program**
**Tel: (301) 713-3125 x257**
**Email:  Catherine.Marzin@noaa.gov**

**   ****Continuation of  L - 49  and  S – 14   **

## CDMP in FY08: 

-  L – 49   HOV
- 	Scanning fisheries research vessels’ log books
-   S - 14   SourceCorp
- 	Keying Fisheries Statistical Bulletins
- 	Keying Fisheries from Gloucester and Boston Harbors:
- 	*  1901-1925 monthly catch records – in Lbs and  $
- 	*  for multiple species – sizes – fresh and salted.
- 	    also includes some figures of Fisheries landings
-                 from Seattle WA

- Update on CDMP activities
- an example of reanalysis of historical fisheries data

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- State of the marine environment BEFORE overfishing, pollution, etc.?

- PAST

- NOW

- FUTURE

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- NOAA Sanctuary Program
- “Maintain and conserve for future generations”

## Understanding the past:  

*Gulf of Maine Cod Project, University of New Hampshire*

- Findings of Rosenberg et al. 2005,
*Frontiers in Historical Ecology *

- From 1.260 M. to 0.050 M. in 150 years.

- From 20 Lbs average cod size to 6.5 Lbs

- Understanding the past:
- an example of reanalysis of historical fisheries data

## Keying Data from US Fisheries statistical Bulletins                      FY08.   Sourcecorp

- US Fisheries Statistical Bulletin (1898-1935)

- Mapping of fishing grounds

- Seasonality of Fisheries – Middle Bank (1901-1935)

- Population Dynamics

- Spatial Analysis

- “Middle Bank”

## Integrating Historical Environmental Data Into Climate Datasets

*“**Obtained; Sea Urchins, 1. Starfish, Rock Crabs, Hermit Crabs, and shells.  A few skates and flounders a number of Pectens (scallops)”*

- Nature of Bottom

- Position

- Air
- Temperature

- Sea Surface Temperature

- Salinity

- Barometer

- Cloud Cover

- Wind

- Bottom
- Temperature

- Date/Time

- Depth

- Dredging Instrument

- Climate and ecological data in historical Survey Logbooks

*USS Fish Hawk*
-   First US Fish Commission R.V.
-   3,000 survey stations
-   From 1880 to 1926** **

## FY09:  Continuation proposals

- ~  Scientific Logbooks from the 1st US Fisheries Research vessels
- ~  Continue imaging Charles W. Smiley  and William V. Cox Fisheries Statistics
-      (export & import stats, 1731-1880)  only 1 out of 5 volumes scanned so far

- L – 49  :  _Image and Index Fish Survey Data and Reports_

- S – 14  :  _Keying of US Fish Commission Historical Papers_

- ~ Priority 1 -  Keying data from fisheries research vessels’ survey logbooks
- ~ Priority 2  -  Keying data from Smiley and Cox Fisheries Statistics

*Data held at the National Archive*

*Digital files will be forwarded*

## International Conference 

**“****Big Fish Eat Little Fish,” **
**Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1557)**

- International Conference
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- on the History and Future of Marine Animal Populations
- May 26-28, 2009
- Aquatic Ecosystem Research Laboratory (AERL)
- University of British Columbia
- Vancouver, Canada

## Thank you!

**Thank you!**

- Catherine.Marzin@noaa.gov

- sanctuaries.noaa.gov/science/historical_ecology
- fishhistory.org
- hmapcoml.org