Documentation
AKFIN Documentation
AKFIN maintains an extensive data library that includes sources from both state and federal fisheries agencies. Included here are documentation on some of AKFIN's maintained data sources and value-added products.
Comprehensive Datasets
The comprehensive datasets are taken from various fisheries management databases and extended with variables from the other datasets. These are consolidated, historic versions of many source agencies transactional information.
- User Guides in MS Word format
- Data Dictiory in MS Excel format
AKFIN Value-Added Products
AKFIN maintains several processes that provide value-added information to our base source agency data, many of these are incorporated into the Comprehensive Datasets or are used in AKFIN's reporting. The follog are in MS Word format.
AKFIN maintains several processes that provide value-added information to our base source agency data, many of these are incorporated into the Comprehensive Datasets or are used in AKFIN's reporting. The follog are in MS Word format.
- Processor Code Cross Reference - A process that determines translations of the ITO Code to Federal Fisheries or Processor Permit and vice versa.
- Fish Ticket Exclusion Flag Determination - A proess that determines which catcher/processors should be excluded from the groundfish tickets during consolidated reporting to avoid double-counting on merge to the NMFS AKR Blend/Catche Accounting Systems.
- Fish Ticket Predominant Species Determination (Targeting) - A process to determine the predominant species on a fish ticket/stat area basis.
