VMS Declaration Reports

OMB Control No. 0648-0573
Expiration Date: 12/31/2010

Declaration Report Worksheet
This worksheet is for your own use and is intended to help you organize
information that will be submitted in a declaration report.
Please do not submit this worksheet to NMFS.

1) Dial 1-888-585-5518 to connect to the West Coast Groundfish Declaration Line.
2) You will be connected to a live operator during normal business hours (8:00 am to 4:30 pm Monday
through Friday) to file a declaration or be asked to leave a voice mail declaration after hours, on
weekends or holidays.
3) Provide your vessel identification number to the operator or voicemail.
Vessel Number

4) Provide your 5 digit vessel pass code to the operator or voicemail.
Vessel Pass code

5) Provide the two digit gear code from the list below, to the operator or voicemail.
Gear Code

10 - Limited entry fixed gear,
not including shorebased IFQ
11 - Limited entry groundfish non-trawl,
shorebased IFQ
20 - Limited entry midwater trawl gear,
non-whiting shorebased IFQ,
21 - Limited entry midwater trawl,
Pacific whiting shorebased IFQ
22 - Limited entry midwater trawl,
Pacific whiting catcher/processor sector
23 - Limited entry midwater trawl,
Pacific whiting mothership sector
(catcher vessel or mothership)
30 - Limited entry bottom trawl,
shorebased IFQ,
not including demersal trawl
31 - Limited entry demersal trawl,
shorebased IFQ

33 - Open access longline gear for groundfish
34 - Open access groundfish trap or pot gear
35 - Open access line gear for groundfish
40 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for ridgeback prawn
41 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for pink shrimp
42 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for CA halibut
43 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for sea cucumber
50 - Tribal trawl gear
60 - Open access prawn trap or pot gear,
61 - Open access Dungeness crab trap or pot gear,
62 - Open access Pacific Halibut longline gear
63 - Open access salmon troll gear
64 - Open access California halibut line gear
65 - Open access sheephead trap or pot gear
66 - Open access Highly Migratory Species line gear
67 - Open access Coastal Pelagic Species net gear
68 - Open access California gillnet complex gear
69 - A gear that is not listed above

6) For your records, record the confirmation number provided by the operator. Re-enter the
confirmation number in the area provided below.
Confirmation Number

7) Ask the operator to review the information in your declaration. Once you confirm that your
declaration report is correct you may disconnect from the West Coast Groundfish Declaration Line.

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4 minutes per response, including
the time for reviewing 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
suggestions for reducing this burden to Becky Renko, National Marine Fisheries Service/Northwest Region,
at [email protected].
This information is confidential under Section 402 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be
subjected 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.