American Samoa Vessel Registration System

This is a fairly robust, historical system collected and maintained by the American Samoa DMWR in collaboration with the Dept. of Public Safety staff. Like other vessel registration systems it contains ownership info as well as all the basic vessel characteristics. It includes all locally registered vessels and has historical capabilities to track owners over time if boats were sold, and permits as well. The Samoa Dept of Public Safety (e.g. police dept) does the issuance of vessel registration numbers etc., and DMWR obtains data from them to put into the DMWR database. The database also contains some documented vessels for the longline vessels that fish out of American Samoa. These data are considered highly confidential.

Data and Resources

Field Value
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Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • american-samoa
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • ckan
  • dmwr
  • doc-noaa-nmfs-national-marine-fisheries-service
  • fmb
  • fmb-western-pacific-fisheries-information-network-wpacfin-metadata-portfolio
  • frmd
  • geo
  • geoss
  • marine-patrol-division
  • national
  • noaa
  • north-america
  • pifsc
  • u-s-department-of-commerce
  • united-states
  • vessel-registration
  • wpacfin
isopen False
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license_title License not specified
maintainer Lowe, M Kimberly
maintainer_email kimberly.lowe@noaa.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T11:24:15.838428
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T11:24:15.838432
notes This is a fairly robust, historical system collected and maintained by the American Samoa DMWR in collaboration with the Dept. of Public Safety staff. Like other vessel registration systems it contains ownership info as well as all the basic vessel characteristics. It includes all locally registered vessels and has historical capabilities to track owners over time if boats were sold, and permits as well. The Samoa Dept of Public Safety (e.g. police dept) does the issuance of vessel registration numbers etc., and DMWR obtains data from them to put into the DMWR database. The database also contains some documented vessels for the longline vessels that fish out of American Samoa. These data are considered highly confidential.
num_resources 3
num_tags 20
title American Samoa Vessel Registration System