Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program

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ACCSP

Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program
Formation	1995
Legal status	State-owned organization
Purpose	Providing statistics of the USA's Pacific coast
Location	United States
Fields	Standards Administration and outreach Data collection and management
Website	https://www.accsp.org/
Formerly called	Atlantic coast fisheries-dependent program

The Atlantic Coastal Cooperative Statistics Program (ACCSP) is a cooperative state-

.

Initial planning for an Atlantic coast fisheries-dependent program began in 1994 to address deficiencies in the data available for fisheries management along the Atlantic coast. The ACCSP was established in 1995 through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the 23 state and federal agencies responsible for marine fisheries management on the Atlantic coast.

The federal partners are the

, and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council.

The Program is separated into three divisions: a staff dedicated to handling the ACCSP standards, administrative aspects and outreach requirements of the program; a data team that seeks to identify, transform and audit datasets and answer data queries regarding fisheries' activities; and a software team that designs and builds the data collection systems for the program manages on behalf of its partners, and internal systems that support Program activities.

External links

• Official website