{"accessLevel": "public", "bureauCode": ["010:12"], "contactPoint": {"@type": "vcard:Contact", "fn": "Scott R Nelson", "hasEmail": "mailto:snelson@usgs.gov"}, "description": "Since 1971 the Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC), formerly known as the National Fishery Center-Great Lakes (National Biological Service), the Great Lakes Fishery Laboratory (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)(FWS/GLFL), and the Ann Arbor Biological Laboratory (Bureau of Commercial Fisheries), have acted as repositories for the processing, reporting, and storage of U.S. Great Lakes commercial fishery statistics. The GLSC prepares annual summaries of these data for use by federal and state resource managers and other interested public and private organizations. The data collection system was organized in 1926 by Dr. John Van Oosten of the Bureau of Fisheries\nand was first put to use by the State of Michigan in 1927. Commercial\nfishermen licensed by that state were required to submit daily fishing\nreports indicating gear used and amount of catch. In succeeding years\nthe system was improved and expanded until by 1950 all the Great Lakes states and the Province of Ontario, Canada, had similar systems.", "distribution": [{"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "accessURL": "http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F73T9FB3", "description": "Landing page for access to the data", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "application/http", "title": "Digital Data"}, {"@type": "dcat:Distribution", "description": "The metadata original format", "downloadURL": "https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.54d4f0eee4b0f7b2dc9f2b9c.xml", "format": "XML", "mediaType": "text/xml", "title": "Original Metadata"}], "identifier": "http://datainventory.doi.gov/id/dataset/USGS_54d4f0eee4b0f7b2dc9f2b9c", "keyword": ["Catching methods", "Commercial fishing", "Fishing vessels", "Freshwater lakes", "Stock assessment", "USGS:54d4f0eee4b0f7b2dc9f2b9c"], "modified": "2020-08-20T00:00:00Z", "publisher": {"@type": "org:Organization", "name": "U.S. Geological Survey"}, "spatial": "-92.6748046874996, 40.8334534227341, -75.4833984375042, 49.2158955317088", "theme": ["geospatial"], "title": "Great Lakes Commercial Fishing Catches 1929-2013"}