Abstract

The Fisheries Research Laboratory (FRL) of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) monitors the commer¬cial landings of fish and shellfish in Puerto Rico since 1967. The CFSP receive commercial fisheries landings reports, collect and process biostatistics data, enter the collected data in computer format, estimate the under reported landings (correction factor), and estimate catch per unit effort. A total of 2.72 million pounds was estimated by the project reported in 2012, 1.89 million pounds were reported in 2013, 2.3 million pounds were reported in 2014, 2.37 million pounds were reported in 2015, 2.37 million pounds were re-ported in 2016 and 1.27 million pounds were reported in the year 2017. The CFSP determined a correction factor to esti-mate the non-reported or under-reported landings to do the mentioned estimates. Using the correction factor of 57% for 2012, in 2013, the correction factor was 67, in 2014 was 0.77%, in 2015 was 0.77 and in 2016. In 2017 has not been deter-mined yet, thus the results were raw data. Landings by species and by gear will be show in the results. Also, the CPUE for landings were estimated and presented in this paper.

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