The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) requires persons with permitted fishing vessels to mark their vessel and fishing gear
with the official identification number or another form of approved identification. A vessel's official number, under most regulations, is
required to be displayed on the port and starboard sides of the deckhouse or hull, and weather deck. The marking of fishing gear is also
valuable in actions concerning damage, loss, and civil proceedings. Fishing gear marking requirements apply to coral aquacultured live
rock, golden crab traps, mackerel gillnet floats, spiny lobster traps, buoy gear, and sea bass pots. These vessel and fishing gear markings
provide law enforcement personnel with a means to monitor fishing, at-sea processing, and other related activities to ascertain whether
the vessel's observed activities and fishing gear are in accordance with those authorized for that vessel.
This request merges OMB Control No. 0648-0359, SE Region Gear Identification, into this collection.
US Code:
16 USC 1801 et seq.
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
Program Change: The estimated total annual burden and cost to the public is revised due to the inclusion of fishing gear marking requirements for the same respondents, collected under a separate, approved collection. The currently approved responses, burden and cost from OMB Control No. 0648-0359 added were 138,350 responses, 9,771 hours and $50,755.
Adjustments: Vessel marking burden was changed frm 45 minutes per vessel to 75 minutes per vessel and some gear marking burden and costs were revised based on respondent comments. Burden and cost were also adjusted based on a decreased number of vessels and an increased number of gear pieces. These adjustments added net amounts of 290,644 responses, 34,067 hours and $324,025.
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Adam Bailey 808 944-2248
No
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.
0358 Supporting Statement 021715.docx
Southeast Region Vessel Identification Requirements