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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
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A suitably qualified fisheries expert can compare vessel logbooks, dealer or landing records, observer information, trip reports, fishing locations, gear records, and biological sampling to determine how the reported catch was documented. Catch data may also need to be considered alongside fishing effort because the same amount of catch can have different implications depending on how much fishing activity produced it. NOAA stock assessments commonly draw on commercial and recreational catch information together with abundance and biological data.
The analysis may involve scientific surveys, catch histories, age and size composition, reproductive information, indices of abundance, fishing mortality, and the statistical model used in the stock assessment. A suitably qualified fisheries expert can examine whether the selected data and assumptions support the reported trend or estimate and whether uncertainty was appropriately considered. NOAA describes stock assessment as a process of collecting and analyzing fishery data with mathematical and statistical models to estimate stock condition and sustainable harvest.
Fishery observers can provide independent information about what was caught, discarded, retained, and encountered during fishing operations, as well as the gear being used. That evidence can be important when vessel records, catch composition, protected-species interactions, or bycatch are disputed. NOAA identifies observer programs as an important source of at-sea data on catch, discards, bycatch, protected-species interactions, and gear configuration.
Useful materials may include vessel logbooks, landing and dealer records, observer reports, electronic monitoring data, trip records, permits, gear specifications, catch and effort data, stock assessments, scientific survey results, biological sampling, vessel tracking information, and documents showing applicable fishing seasons or restrictions. Original datasets and model files can be particularly important when the dispute concerns how a fisheries estimate or stock-assessment result was calculated.
