As part of its fishery management
responsibilities, NOAA Fisheries collects information to determine
the amount and type of groundfish caught by fishing vessels. This
collection supports exempted fishing permit requirements for
Pacific whiting shoreside vessels to have and use electronic
monitoring to verify full retention of catch and for Pacific
whiting shoreside processors to send electronic catch data used to
manage the catch allocations and limits. The respondents are
principally groundfish fishermen and shoreside processors which are
companies/partnerships. Other respondents include state fisheries
agencies who seek an exempted fishing permit.
PL:
Pub.L. 109 - 479 104 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act of 2006
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.