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seafood and domestic seafood consumption rates, were 

 undertaken to estimate potentially unreported catches, 

 as well as to estimate total likely catch for the 1950-64 

 period for which no other reported information was 

 available (see "Supply versus demand" heading below. 

 Table 2). 



Offshore boat-based catches 



1965-82: The offshore catch estimates for this time 

 period, which pre-dates WPacFIN reporting, were drawn 

 from the creel survey data as reported in DAWR annual 



reports. Procedures for expanding survey data to island- 

 wide catches, as listed or applied by the various data 

 sources, were generally accepted. For example, reports 

 from earlier years indicated under-reporting due to 

 sampling design limitations of the creel surveys by a 

 minimum factor of two, and we adjusted the reported 

 catch estimates correspondingly for these years (Zeller 

 et al.3). 



1983-2002: We relied on the island-wide expanded 

 catch estimates as provided by WPacFIN, based on off- 

 shore creel surveys undertaken by DAWR. These data 



