Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands
Management Area (BSAI), Amendment 80 allocated several BSAI
non-pollock trawl groundfish fisheries among fishing sectors,
established a limited access privilege program, and facilitated the
formation of harvesting cooperatives in the non-American Fisheries
Act (non-AFA) trawl catcher/processor sector (hereinafter the
"Program"). This action would remove the groundfish retention
standard (GRS) program. National Marines Fisheries Service (NMFS)
discovered that the regulatory methodology used to calculate
compliance with and to enforce the GRS program require the sector
to retain groundfish at a rate well above that considered by the
Council or that implemented by NMFS. Monitoring and enforcement of
the GRS have proven far more complex, challenging, and potentially
costly than anticipated by NMFS. This action is necessary because
the circumstances that justified the GRS rates have changed. This
action is intended to mitigate higher than expected compliance
costs of the GRS borne by the Amendment 80 sector. Furthermore,
this action is needed to mitigate management and enforcement costs
that were not foreseen when the regulation was
promulgated.
PL:
Pub.L. 94 - 265 303 Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
NMFS makes a program change to
this collection that would change the source of information
formerly collected through eLandings to information reported in the
existing annual cooperative report. In addition, a third-party
audit of groundfish retention calculations is added to the
cooperative report, which changes the total miscellaneous costs.
Amend 80 Cooperative Report an increase of 2 burden hours, 27 hr
instead of 25 hr an increase of $50 personnel cost, $ 675 instead
of $ 625 an increase of $350 miscellaneous cost, $351 instead of
$1.
$1,100
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Patsy Bearden 907
586-7008
No
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