State Biodiversity Database Survey
Contact: Henry Drewes (Fisheries Program Coordinator)
Organization: MN Dept of Natural Resources
State: MN
NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION (Who filled out survey?)
NAME Henry Drewes
TITLE Fisheries Program Coordinator
AGENCY/ORGANIZATION MN Dept of Natural Resources
ADDRESS Box 12, 500 Lafayette Rd
CITY, STATE, ZIP St Paul, MN 55155
TELEPHONE AND FACSIMILEPhone: (612)297-3287
     Fax:
EMAIL/FTP/WWW henry.drewes@dnr.state.mn.us
  
ORIGINATOR (Owner/Agency) Minnesota DNR, Section of Fisheries
DATABASE NAME Fisheries Lake Information System
DATABASE ACRONYMS 
DATABASE ABSTRACT (A brief summary of the data set):
Historical database containing information collected from Fisheries Lake Surveys. Data includes physical, chemical and descriptive information for each lake, fish population data (catch per unit effort), and habitat data (vegetation and substrates).
PURPOSE OF THE DATABASE:
Storage and retrieval of biological data for long term fisheries management needs.
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION (Agency Mandate, etc.):
 
DATE RANGE OF RECORDS:1954 - 1996, Present
IS DATA CONTINUOUS? (Yes or No): No
EXPLAIN GAPS IN THE DATA: 
Dataset contains survey information from 10,000 survey events from 4,000 different lakes. Two thirds have been conducted since 1980.
 
HOW OFTEN IS THE INFORMATION UPDATED?
Annually Updated
WHEN WAS THE LAST UPDATE?: 1995
COMMENTS ON UPDATE STATUS: 
 
 
SPATIAL DOMAIN OF DATA SET
(Lat/Long coordinates, State/Region, etc.):		 
State of Minnesota
 
BIODIVERSITY KEYWORDS:
THEME SPECIES TYPE
Population Levels/Density Fish Surveys
  Plants Summary Data
  Other; see comments  
PLACE KEYWORDS
(Words/Phrases describing database extent & location):
Fisheries Lakes Catch per unit effort
  Relative abundance  
DATASET CONSTRAINTS: ACCESS TO THE DATABASE
Cooperative agreements
Copyright agreements
Licensing agreements
COMMENTS REGARDING DATASET ACCESS CONSTRAINTS:
 
DATASET CONSTRAINTS: USE OF THE DATABASE:
Citation requirements
Copyright agreements
COMMENTS REGARDING DATASET USE CONSTRAINTS:
Proprietary software, all data & reports are copyrighted. Written authorization is needed to repoduce material. Commercial licenses with royalty fees are used for private commercial ventures.
DATA ACCURACY:
DATA QUALITY INFORMATION (How accurate is the information?):
Moderate to high quality.
QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY CONTROL MEASURES USED:
Field error checking.
ATTRIBUTE ACCURACY, LOGICAL CONSISTENCY, COMPLETENESS & LINEAGE:
All within reason.
DATA REFERENCING: SPATIAL DATA ORGANIZATION & REFERENCING:
DATA SET GEOGRAPHIC REFERENCE INFORMATION (Is it geographically referenced?):
YES, point/location information
YES, by administrative boundary; see comments
YES, by place; see comments
COMMENTS REGARDING DATA REFERENCING:
 
ENTITY AND ATTRIBUTES (What species/system/attributes measured):
Lakes, Fish population, Aquatic plants. Abundance (CPUE, %occurrence).
DATA DISTRIBUTION - CONTACT INFORMATION: (How to obtain the data set):
Not currently distributing the data.
CURRENT DATABASE FORM AVAILABLE (media, digital, non-digital, etc.):
Other; see comments.
Local use only; see comments.
COMMENTS REGARDING DATABASE CURRENT FORM:
Local use only: dbase IV
Other: On-line/Internet in development. Currently migrating all data to a data warehouse (Oracle Platform) which will have internet access through our wide area network.
DATABASE SIZE (Megabytes, etc.):
500 Megabytes
ADDITIONAL METADATA AVAILABLE FOR DATA SET:
Collection Protocols
COMMENTS REGARDING METADATA: