Lower Osage Paddlefish Creel | MDC Research Portal

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Project Associated With

Human Dimension Survey Methods

Collection Method(s)

Access Creel, Roving Creel

Date Range

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Start Date

2000-03

End date

2000-04

Important Date Details

Survey began March 15, 2000. Ending date of the survey April 30, 2000.

Data Collection Assumptions

Information about data collection assumptions for this project can be found in the following two file locations:

\\ColumbiaNAS\StudyData\fstats\Creel Survey Files (REORGANIZED)\Central Region\2000-2008DataAnalysisProcedures_Paddlefish.docx
\\ColumbiaNAS\StudyData\fstats\Creel Survey Files (REORGANIZED)\Central Region\ 1993CreelSurvey_SummaryInstructions.pdf

Geographic Scope

Regions

Central

County

Osage

Cole

Conservation Area

Bonnots Mill Access

Waterbodies

Osage River

Population Metrics

Anglers fishing from the bank for access creel methods and anglers fishing from boats for roving creel methods. No further demographics were identified in the data available.

Collection Resources

No Resource

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Resources

Name

Data Analysis Results

Details

o \\ColumbiaNAS\StudyData\fstats\Creel Survey Files (REORGANIZED)\Central Region\2000-2008 LowerOsage_Paddlefish\2000\2000Creel_LowerOsage_Paddlefish_list.rtf
o \\ColumbiaNAS\StudyData\fstats\Creel Survey Files (REORGANIZED)\Central Region\2000-2008 LowerOsage_Paddlefish\2000\2000Creel_LowerOsage_Paddlefish_table.rtf

Name

Post Analysis Code

Details

o \\ColumbiaNAS\StudyData\fstats\Creel Survey Files (REORGANIZED)\Central Region\2000-2008 LowerOsage_Paddlefish\2000\ LowerOsagepaddlefish2000.sas

Data Factor Definitions/Key

Field/Question Number & Text	Database Column	Key
Number of Fishing Trips	ETFTRIP
Within sample period estimated variance of ETFTRIP	Etftripvar
Average Catch of Fishing	ETFCATCHC
Within sample period variance of ETFCATCHC	Etfcatvar
Average Hours of Fishing	ETFHRS
Within sample period estimated variance of ETFHRS	Etfhrsvar
Catch rate of Fishing	CCATRATE
Within sample period estimated variance of ETFHRS	Ccatratevar
Std. error of ETFTRIP	ETFTRIPSE
Std. error of ETFHRS	ETFHRSE
Std. error of ETFCATCHC	ETFCATCHCSE
Std. error of CCATRATE	CCATRATESE
Real Number of Anglers in each Interested Group	angler
Real Number of Catches in each Interested Groupp	catch
Real Fishing Hours for each Interested Group	hrs_gp
Average of catch Length	avg_lt
Average of catch weight	avg_wt
Estimates of Catch Number for each Interested Group	etfcat_gp
Estimates of Fishing Hours for each Interested Group	etfhrs_gp
Estimates of Trips for each Interested Group	etftrip_gp
Estimates of Catch Rate for each Interested Group	ecrate_gp
Estimated Std.Error of etfcat_gp	etfcat_gp_se
Estimated Std.Error of etfhrs_gp	etfhrs_gp_se
Estimated Std.Error of etftrip_gp	etftrip_gp_se
Estimated Std.Error of ecrate_gp	ecrate_gp_se

Software

Microsoft Word
SAS v.9.2

Taxonomy Selections

Project Category

Fish, Fish Research, Human Dimensions