UFA Auction Sampling Data

Between 1984 January - 2002 June, personnel from NMFS/PIFSC/FRMD/FMB/FMAP and Hawaii Department of Aquatic Resources (DAR) conducted port sampling at the United Fishing Agency (UFA) Fish Auction. They recorded the total landing at the UFA Fish Auction, with a frequency of six times a week during the earlier years to twice a week during the later years.

In 2000 January, DAR implemented a Dealer Data collection procedure that receives reports from the fish dealers that are more complete and covers more than just the auction. This Dealer Data takes the place of the UFA Sampling Data, and after a 2.5 year overlap, the collection of the UFA Sampling Data was discontinued in 2002 June. The DAR Dealer Data is archived and documented separately.

The data collected at the auction was not intended to be an accounting of the complete landings of any kind. It was an attempt to record the total landings on any given sampling day, which ranged from two to six times a week. This sampling contains information on the price per pound and quantity sold, and could be used to provide a size structure (weight frequency) by species.

ORADATA.FE022AA1 contains PIFSC Historical Data for years 1984 to 1990. (

Record count: 749,894

UFA.UFA created by Frank Cabacungan should be used as the source of the data. It contains data for years 1981 to 2001 in the UFA schema.

Record count: 1,923,132

SOURCE ID: FE022

Send written request to PIFSC and requires approval by the PIFSC data owner.

Requires signing a PIFSC non-disclosure statement for fisheries confidential data.

QC review prior to data entry. Further QC after data entry.

NCEI-MD does not accept sensitive data at this time

PIFSC ITS performs scheduled back-ups.

Data was collected in the field by PIFSC staff and data entry was conducted at PIFSC to create ASCII fixed record length flat files. Flat files were loaded into an ORACLE database.