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“The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers.”
- Merriam-Webster
Scientific Understanding of Fish Stocks: The practice of obtaining - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Scientific Understanding of Fish Stocks: The practice of obtaining - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Crowdsourcing Qualitative Stakeholder Observations to Enhance Scientific Understanding of Fish Stocks: The practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from
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Regional Fishery Management Councils encourage local-
level knowledge in federal fisheries management.
▪ Stakeholders with on-the-water knowledge engaged in process
Participation in the scientific aspects of resource
management typically requires considerable involvement
▪ Cooperative research ▪ Citizen science
Crowdsourcing observations from Council stakeholders
provides an opportunity for many people to share their individual perspectives
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Stock assessments can have data gaps or lack real-time data:
Current on-the water knowledge from
stakeholders can be used to:
▪ Ground-truth observed trends ▪ Explain anomalies ▪ Inform projections
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Solicit Feedback
Online tool used to collect species-specific observations prior to each assessment
- Association(s) with the fishery
- Observation
- Location(s) of observation
Analyze
Comments analyzed for overall positive, neutral, or negative sentiment
- Manual Analysis: Two individuals classify sentiment separately and resolve discrepancies
- Automated Analysis: R statistical software package ‘tidytext’ using a revised ‘Bing’ lexicon
library to classify sentiment
Share
- Stock Assessment Panel
- Scientific and Statistical Committee / relevant Advisory Panel
- Council
- Respondents/Stakeholders
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35 60 551
Response by Sector
Commercial Federal For-hire Private
Response by Location n=878 n=646 586 people responded to the tool
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Manual Analysis
2 comments dropped (n=584)
Automated Analysis
181 comments dropped (n=405)
125 185 95
Response Sentiment: Automated
Positive Negative Neutral
91 302 191
Response Sentiment: Manual
Positive Negative Neutral
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Manual Analysis
Many comments indicated that the average size of fish encountered is smaller than it has been historically.
Comments indicating a negative trend in abundance noted that the spring migration had either diminished or mover farther
- ffshore. This was attributed to
red tide, influx of fresh water, or removal of structure.
Comments indicated that the population decline has been
- ccurring since about 2010.
Automated Analysis
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Species Assessment # of Respondents Red Grouper SEDAR 61 97 Gray Triggerfish SEDAR 62 132 Yellowtail Snapper SEDAR 64 364 King Mackerel Update Assessment 47 Vermilion Snapper SEDAR 67 63 Cobia Update Assessment 586 Scamp SEDAR 68 32 Greater Amberjack SEDAR 70 64 Next up: Red Snapper and Gag Grouper
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