1
Executive Summary
2
Data, Architecture, and Process Overview
2.1
CAMS Data Input Sources
2.2
Data sharing architecture
2.3
Process overview
3
MAPS Matching
3.1
Matching Criteria
3.1.1
Vessel Permit Number (PERMIT)
3.1.2
VTR Serial Number (VTRSERNO)
3.1.3
Date Matching
3.2
Matching Order
3.3
Matching Map
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Clean and Join Landings Data
4.1
Overview
4.2
Data Sources
4.2.1
VTR
4.2.2
Dealer
4.2.3
Permit, Vessel, & Trip
4.2.4
Support Tables
4.3
VTR Data
4.3.1
VTR Effort
4.3.2
Gear Unification
4.3.3
VTR Disposition
4.3.4
Species Subtrip Landing Proportions
4.4
Dealer Data
4.4.1
Dealer Packing-Only Disposition
4.4.2
Combined DLR-VTR
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Assignment and Imputation
5.0.1
Objectives
5.1
Overview
5.2
Area Assignment and Imputation
5.2.1
Assignment of Area
5.2.2
Area Imputation Summary
5.2.3
Federal Permit Imputation
5.2.4
Area Assignment Summary Table
5.3
Gear and Mesh Category Assignment and Imputation
5.3.1
Assignment of Gear
5.3.2
Mesh Categories
5.3.3
Gear-Mesh Imputation
5.3.4
Gear-Mesh Assignment Summary Tables
5.4
Imputation: Effort
5.4.1
Methods
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Apportionment
6.1
Description
6.2
Apportionment Flow Charts
6.3
Example of dealer apportionment
6.4
Mixed Hake Apportionment
6.5
Additional trip attributes
6.6
End user landings tables
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CAMS AA Tables
7.1
Background
7.2
Objectives
7.3
Outputs
7.4
Major Differences Between NEFSC AA and CAMS AA Tables and Processes
7.5
CFDETS and CFDETT
7.5.1
MAINSPP
7.6
CFLEN and CFAGE
7.6.1
CAMS_CFLEN_AA
7.6.2
CAMS_CFAGE_AA
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Discards
8.1
Species of interest defined
8.2
Stratification or “fleets” for discard sampling/estimation defined
8.2.1
Area strata
8.2.2
Gear/mesh category strata
8.2.3
Regulatory and other strata
8.3
Subtrip-level discard estimates, variance and CV
8.3.1
Direct observations
8.3.2
Ratio estimation
8.3.3
Electronic Monitoring
8.4
Support Tables
8.5
Steps for running discard estimation
8.6
Discard Source
8.7
Discard Runs in CAMS
8.8
Future design
8.9
References
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Appendix A: Fishery Groups
9.1
Overview
9.2
Research
9.3
NAFO
9.4
Groundfish
9.5
Other groundfish trips declaring monkfish
9.6
Scallops
9.7
Herring
9.8
Monkfish
9.9
Red Crab
9.10
Surf Clam
9.11
Tilefish
9.12
Mackerel
9.13
Loligo (Longfin Squid)
9.14
Squid
9.15
Misdeclared groundfish trips
9.16
Declared out of fishery (DOF)
9.17
Party-Charter Multispecies Trips
9.18
Recreational
9.19
Carrier
9.20
Shrimp
9.21
Lobster/Crab
9.22
Whelk/Conch
9.23
Hagfish
9.24
Menhaden
9.25
Fluke
9.26
Scup
9.27
Squid/Whiting
9.28
Other potential groundfish
9.29
Outside region
9.30
State trips
9.31
Uncategorized
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Appendix B: Data Dictionary
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Appendix C: Relevant Notes for End Users
11.1
Overview
11.2
Tilefish Landings in North Carolina
11.3
Groundfish Exemption Strata
Catch Accounting and Monitoring System (CAMS) Documentation
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Appendix B: Data Dictionary
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Last modified: 2026-11-11