Marine Recreational Information Program Strategic Plan: 2017-2022

The Marine Recreational Information Program Strategic Plan: 2017-2022 is a national sectoral strategic plan of the United States of America. Its main objective is to enhance collaboration to improve recreational fishing estimates.
More specifically, the Strategic Plan aims to provide recreational catch, effort, and participation statistics that meet defined, understood, and prioritized needs—including, for example, timeliness of delivery of estimates, spatial and temporal survey coverage, precision of estimates, and statistics for special needs fisheries—of identified regional and national customers; achieve consistency, quality, timeliness, accessibility, and transparency in data collection, production of estimates, and program operations; strengthen two-way communications with partners and stakeholders to improve their knowledge of the properties and use limitations of catch statistics, and to build confidence in the data; maintain a strong science foundation for the program that includes robustness, integrity, transparency, and innovation, and that develops and incorporates new advancements in survey design and data collection and analysis; maintain effective collaborations with state, interstate, regional, and national partners for cost effective and responsive recreational data collection and catch estimation; and ensure that the program’s value and funding needs are well documented and communicated; resources are utilized efficiently; opportunities to expand capability through leveraging partner resources are fully explored; and actions are taken as authorized to ensure sufficient funding to support the needs of the program (federal and state support).