Publication Date
8-2025
Series Number
350
Publisher
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia
City
Perth
ISBN
978-1-925415-06-3 (Print) 978-1-925415-07-0 (Online)
ISSN
1035-4549 (Print) 2202-5758 (Online)
Abstract
This report provides a time series (2009 – 2024) of the total number of recreational vessel (powerboat) retrievals at a spatial (boat ramp) and temporal (annual, month, hour) resolution for 32 boat ramps distributed from Wyndham to Esperance. This time series has been developed using a workflow that outlines each step, from acquiring raw video data to producing a completed time series of vessel retrievals. As part of this workflow, modelling was undertaken to impute counts of vessel retrieval for sites and hours for which data had not been read, or for which there were significant outages. Features within the General Additive Model (GAM) include inherent spatial and temporal variables (i.e., bioregion, site, month), as well as climatic variables (i.e., wind speed, wave height).
Number of Pages
93
Keywords
Remote cameras, Boat ramps, powerboats, Vessel retrieval, Time Series, Recreational fishing, Fisheries management
Disciplines
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Recommended Citation
Bradshaw, S.C., Smallwood, C.B., Blight, S.J., Matthews, T.E., Ryan K.L. 2025. Recreational vessel retrievals in Western Australia: 2009 to 2024. Fisheries Research Report No. 350. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia. 93pp.
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