Appendix 2 - Reference codes

Fishing Method Codes

BLL

Bottom Longline

PS

Purse Seining



Activity codes

Activity codes recorded on the South Pacific Regional Purse-seine Logsheet.

1

Fishing Set

2

Searching

3

Transit

4

No fishing - breakdown

5

No fishing - bad weather

6

In port

7

Net cleaning set

10

Deploying or retrieving rafts, fads or payaos.

11

Catch transfer between wells at sea.



School association codes

School codes recorded on the South Pacific Regional Purse-seine Logsheet.

1

unassociated

2

Feeding on baitfish

3

Drifting log, debris or dead animal

4

Drifting rafts, fads or payaos.

5

Anchored rafts, fads or payaos.

6

Live whale

7

Live whale shark

8

Other



Status codes

Catch codes, 1 to 5 and 9 are all Purse-seine (PS) discard codes.

R

Retained

D

Discarded

L

Lost

T

Tagged and released

A

Alive Incidental catch

X

Dead Incidental catch

S

Skates released but not tagged

1

PS: undesirable species

2

PS: fish too small

3

PS: fish damaged

4

PS: vessel fully loaded

5

PS: other reason

9

PS: discard code not entered


Type of fishing

Main activity undertaken during each set - CCAMLR BLL

C

Commercial fishing

R

Research fishing



Type of longline

Type of longline configuration used during the period for which data are reported:- CCAMLR BLL

SP

Spanish,

AU

Autoliner,

O

Other



Type of line

Type of material used to construct the main line of the longline - CCAMLR BLL.

M

Monofilament

H

Hollow filament

T

multi filament

U

Unknown

O

Other



Description of line weighting used

A code to describe the line weighting used - CCAMLR BLL

IWL

Internally weighted longline

UWW

Longline to which weights are manually attached

STD

Longline with no weights manually attached

COM

A combination of the any of the three other methods



Factors influencing fishing strategy

A code for describing any factors strongly affecting the fishing strategy: - CCAMLR BLL

ICE

Severe ice conditions

CPT

Competition with other vessels

CLO

An area closure due to a catch limit being reached

NEW

Fishing activities in a new ground

WEA

Adverse weather conditions; and

NON

No variables strongly affecting fishing activities.



Form_type codes

PUR

South Pacific Regional Purse-seine Logsheet

KIR

Purse-seine - Kiribati waters

xls

Data supplied electronically in a Microsoft excel spreadsheet.



CCAMLR Target Species Codes

TOA:

Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)

TOP:

Patagonian toothfish (Dissostichus eleginoides)

TOT:

Both above (Dissostichus spp)



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Updated : 16 November 2007