Fishing vessels permitted to participate in Federally permitted fisheries in the Northeast Region are required to submit logbooks containing catch and effort information about their fishing trips. Participants in the tilefish and open access herring fisheries are also required to make reports on the catch through an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. In addition, vessels fishing under the Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) or Mid-Atlantic Research Set-Aside (RSA) programs are required to submit research catch information through the IVR system. This revision/extensionremoves the information collection for the halibut fishery, in which halibut participants were asked to make voluntary reports on the size of halibut caught and time of day caught. These reports are no longer collected. Special Access Management programs are being transferred to OMB Control No. 0648-0605. Two information collections from the 0648-0202 family of forms to this collection as these sources of information are collected through the IVR system. Moving these two collections allows all of the IVR reported information to be captured in one family of forms. The information submitted is needed for the management of the fisheries.
PL:
Pub.L. 94 - 265 303
Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
Program changes:
Removal of the voluntary halibut logbook reporting: removes 474 responses, 4 hours and $209 in recordkeeping/reporting costs.
Transfer of Special Management Area Programs to OMB Control No. 0648-0605 (revision/extension pending): removes 25,160 responses, 6,369 hours and $22,100.
Transfer of Departure/Landing call-in for Monkfish and Occasional Sea Scallop Vessels through IVR reporting from OMB Control No. 0648-0202: adds 2,030 responses and 68 hours.
Transfer of Declaration of days out of gillnet fishery (Multispecies and Monkfish Vessels) through IVR reporting from OMB Control No. 0648-0202: adds 2,000 responses and 100 hours.
Adjustments: Changes in respondent numbers since the last request and after removal of halibut logbook reporting above:
Logbooks: 167,168 responses, down from 203,512, and 14,438 hours, down from 18,196 = decrease of 36,344 responses and 3,758 hours. Reporting/recordkeeping costs decreased from $90, 824 to $75,226, a decrease of $15,598.
IVR: 4,413 responses, up from 696, and 362 hours, up from 41 = increase of 3,717 responses and 321 hours.
$376,400
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Uncollected
Lindsey Feldman 978 675-2179
Reginfo record details
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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.
Form 88-140 Northeast Region Logbooks
0212 Supporting Statement 010913 rev.doc
CA I Hookgear Haddock SAP (sector manager daily reports)