Ex-Vessel Value and Volume Report Form

Revised: 12/16/08

OMB Control No. 0648-0398
Expiration Date: 4/30/2009
U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Restricted Access Management (RAM)
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, Alaska 99802-1668

IFQ REGISTERED BUYER
Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report

BLOCK A – IDENTIFICATION OF REGISTERED BUYER
1. Did this Registered Buyer perform any shoreside activity this IFQ fishing year?
YES [__]

NO [__]

If YES, continue. This report is due to NMFS by October 15th.
If NO, stop. You do not need to submit this report.
2. Name of Registered Buyer
4. Business Mailing Address

Permanent [

6. Facility or vessel location (port location)

] or

Temporary [

3. Registered Buyer Permit No.
]

5. NMFS Person ID

7. Business Telephone No.
8. Business Fax No.

9. Business E-mail Address (if available)

Period Ending

BLOCK B – POUNDS PURCHASED AND VALUE REPORT
Halibut Pounds & Payments
Sablefish Pounds & Payments
Pounds Purchased
Total Gross Ex-vessel Pounds Purchased
Total Gross Ex-vessel
(headed/gutted)
Value Paid*
(round weight)
Value Paid*

October 31**
November 30**
December 31**
March 31
April 30
May 31
June 30
July 31
August 31
September 30
*Total Gross Ex-vessel value paid should include the dollar value of purchased pounds before any deductions are made for goods
and services (e.g., bait, ice, fuel, repairs, machinery replacement, etc.) provided to the IFQ Permit Holder. It should also include
price adjustments (retro payments) made in each month to IFQ permit holders for landings made during the previous calendar year.
**Use prior year calculations for these months: Note that IFQ sablefish harvested incidental to other directed fishing may be
retained and sold through December 31.

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BLOCK C – CERTIFICATION
Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this submission of material, and to the best of my knowledge
and belief, the information presented here is true, correct, and complete.
1. Printed Name of IFQ Registered Buyer
2. Signature of IFQ Registered Buyer

3. Date

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2 hours per response, including the time for
reviewing the instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing
the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing the burden, to: NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region, Sustainable Fisheries
Division, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Before completing this form please note the following: 1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to
respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number;
2) This information is mandatory and is required to manage commercial fishing effort under 50 CFR part 679 and under section 402(a)
of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.); 3) Responses to this information request are confidential under section
402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act as amended in 2006. It is also confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which
sets forth procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Instructions for
IFQ REGISTERED BUYER EX-VESSEL VOLUME AND VALUE REPORT

GENERAL INFORMATION
The purpose of this report is to collect information from all Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Registered Buyers that operate
as a shoreside processor, so that NMFS Restricted Access Management (RAM) can establish a standard ex-vessel price
for IFQ halibut and sablefish. The standard price will be used to assess a fee from IFQ permit holders who choose not to
itemize their landings and receipts.
Please note that all shoreside processors that buy IFQ halibut or sablefish from IFQ fishermen must complete this form.
NOTE, if no ex-vessel sale occurs (e.g., if the processor accepted fish for special processing), do not include that sale on
this form. This form must include all pounds and associated value of any purchased IFQ landings made from March 15
through September 30 of the current year plus transactions that occurred during the last three months of last year.
The information must be sent no later than October 15:
Online at

https://www.fakr.noaa.gov/webapps/regbuyerlvr/

By mail to:
NMFS Alaska Region
Attn: RAM Program
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau AK 99802-1668
Or by delivery to:
NOAA Fisheries,
Alaska Region (NMFS/RAM)
Federal Building
709 W. 9th Street, Suite 713
Juneau, Alaska 99801

BLOCK A - IDENTIFICATION OF REGISTERED BUYER
1. Indicate if this Registered Buyer preformed any shoreside activity during the current IFQ fishing year.
If NO, stop, you are not required to submit this report
2. Name of Registered Buyer receiving IFQ halibut or sablefish from harvester.
3. Registered Buyer permit number.
4. Enter NMFS person ID.
5. Business Mailing Address, including zip code. If you check Permanent Address, we will update the database. If
you check Temporary Address, we will use it for this one application and we will not change the RAM database.
6 - 8. Business telephone number, business fax number, including area code, and business e-mail address.
9. Enter the port location where landings occurred.
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BLOCK B - POUNDS PURCHASED AND VALUE REPORT
Pounds purchased: Enter the total IFQ equivalent pounds purchased for halibut and/or sablefish by month. All
halibut landings must be expressed in pounds of headed and gutted (H&G) product. If halibut is purchased in any
other product form, convert to IFQ equivalent pounds by multiplying the purchased pounds by the official NMFS
halibut conversion factor (list enclosed).
Example 1 -- not purchased headed and gutted:
Product code
4 (gutted, head on)

Pounds purchased x Conversion factor
10,000
0.90

=

IFQ equivalent pounds
9,000

All sablefish landings must be expressed in round pounds. If sablefish is purchased in any other product form, convert to
IFQ equivalent pounds by dividing the purchased pounds by the official NMFS sablefish product recovery code (list
enclosed).

Example 2 -- not purchased in round pounds:
Product code
8 (H&G, Eastern)

Pounds purchased ⁄
6,300

Product recovery code =
0.63

IFQ equivalent pounds
10,000

Total Gross Ex-Vessel Value Paid: Enter the total dollar value purchased for fish in any product form of IFQ
equivalent pounds before any deductions are made for goods and services (e.g., bait, ice, fuel, repairs, machinery
replacement, etc.) provided to the IFQ permit holder. You must also include price adjustments made in the
current year to IFQ permit holders for landings made during the previous calendar year.
BLOCK C - CERTIFICATION
1. Printed name of the Registered Buyer or the Authorized Representative; if Representative, attach authorization.
2. Signature of Registered Buyer Applicant or the Authorized Representative.
3. Enter the date the application was signed.

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