As part of its fishery management responsibilities, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) collects information to determine the amount and type of groundfish caught by fishing vessels. This collection supports requirements for shorebased first receivers in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery's shorebased individual fishing quota (IFQ) program to account for all landed catch and to send electronic catch data used to manage the catch allocations and limits. It also supports scale requirements for motherships and catcher/processors in the at-sea whiting fishery to account for all catch brought on board the processing vessel. The respondents are principally shorebased first receivers, catch monitor service providers, mothership processors, and catcher/processors which are companies/partnerships. This revision includes some changes in procedures and to fish tickets (new screen shots not available until implementation). This is a resubmission without changes, per the final rule 0648-BB13.
US Code:
16 USC 1801 et seq
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.