About the Regional Data Unit

The main role of the Regional Data Services Unit is to compile, produce, maintain and provide official catch statistics for the Region, according to Regional standards and procedures. The Unit also provides information about the statistics such as the methods used to collect catch data and derive catch estimates.

The Regional Data Services Unit proposes minimum data requirements for landing records (e.g. fish slips, dockside monitoring validation records). These requirements should be reviewed and endorsed by the Catch Data Working Group. Once approved, they should be adopted as a regional standard for all such programs.

The Regional Data Services Unit are the regional spokespeople and advocates for catch data management. As such, they will be in constant communication with Species Groups and Fishery managers regarding catch data.

The Regional Data Services Unit is responsible for obtaining landed price information to estimate landed value for all commercial fisheries.

The Regional Data Services Unit is responsible for making all the catch data it manages available on-line for users inside the DFO.

Responsibilities

The Regional Data Services Unit is responsible for:

• producing monthly, in-season as well as annual, post-season reports of commercial, recreational and aboriginal fisheries.
• maintaining the official regional source of landing data for each fishery. In those fisheries where landing data are already managed now by a different group within the Department, that group makes the data available to the Unit for consolidation with other regional catch data.
• obtaining landed price information to estimate landed value for all commercial fisheries.
• making all the catch data it manages available on-line for users inside the DFO.

What's New?

Pacific Region Commercial Catch Statistical Reports

We are pleased to announce that, through a collaboration of the UBC Fisheries Centre and the Regional Data Unit, the Region’s detailed annual commercial catch statistics reports are available as searchable Adobe PDF files.

Files representing reports from 1951 to 1995 are available on the internet at:

http://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/stats/comm/ann/index-eng.htm

These reports can also be accessed from the Fisheries and Oceans WAVES catalogue.

Summary Commercial Catch Statistics 1996 -2002

Contact Us

Our mailing address is:

Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Regional Data Services Unit
Suite 200 - 401 Burrard Street,
Vancouver, B.C. V6C 3S4

Fax: (604) 666-9008