Overview
The Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) has been collecting fishery statistics on the commercial fishing fleet of Saipan since the mid-1970's. In 1983, DFW also began collecting information on vessels transshipping tuna out of Tinian. Significant improvements to the data collecting and processing systems were made in 1982 when microcomputer hardware, software, and training were provided by the WPACFIN program.
Last updated May 01 2006