NOAA Fisheries, Partners Collaborate To Strengthen Review Of Recreational Catch Estimates

New approach leverages state partners’ local fisheries expertise.

Over the past year, NOAA Fisheries developed, refined, and launched a strengthened procedure for review of recreational fishing catch and effort estimates. This effort was in close collaboration with our Atlantic and Gulf of America state and interstate marine fishery commission partners.

In summer 2025, we updated the process to include Hawaii state partners.

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