Buying station report

OMB Control
OMBNo.
No.0648-0213
0648-0213
Expiration
Date:
7/31/05
Expiration
Date:
01/31/12

Revised:08/1/5
08/25/2011
Revised:

NAME OF BUYING STATION

BUYING STATION
REPORT
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
(Check if applicable and enter number)

CDQ

Exempted

Research

Original
Revised

OPERATOR OR MANAGER NAME AND SIGNATURE

DELIVERY
DATE (m-d-y)
TIME (A.I.t.)

ADF&G NO. IF A VESSEL

ASSOCIATED PROCESSOR
NAME

LICENSE NUMBER IF A VEHICLE

AIP

No.

GEAR TYPE OF HARVESTER (Check one)
HOOK & LINE

POT

NON-PELAGIC TRAWL

PELAGIC TRAWL

JIG

TROLL

OTHER

FEDERAL
REPORTING
AREA

TRAWL GEAR
ONLY

DISCARDS AND DISPOSITION
SPECIES
CODE
PRODUCT
CODE
DAILY
TOTAL

ADF&G NO.

ADF&G PROCESSOR CODE

COBLZ
RKCSA

FEDERAL FISHERIES or FEDERAL PROCESSOR PERMIT
(Check one and indicate permit number)

CATCHER VESSEL DELIVERY INFORMATION
CATCHER VESSEL NAME

National Marine Fisheries Service
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, AK 99802
Telephone: 907-586-7228

RECEIVE
DISCARD
REPORT

FISH TICKET NUMBER

For groundfish and Pacific herring, check:
lbs. or
nearest 0.001 mt.
For Pacific halibut, Pacific salmon, king crab, and Tanner crab, record in numbers

SPECIES SPECIES GROUNDFISH
DELIVERY
CODE WEIGHT
WEIGHT
� lb

���mt

� lb ��mt

PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT
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data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other
aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NOAA National
Marine Fisheries Service, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Before completing this form, please note the following: 1) Notwithstanding any other provision of 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 efforts 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. They are also
confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.

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Instructions
BUYING STATION REPORT (BSR)

REQUIREMENT
The operator or manager of a buying station that
receives or delivers groundfish harvested from the
Gulf of Alaska (GOA) or Bering Sea and Aleutian
Islands Management Area (BSAI) in association
with a shoreside processor, Stationary Floating
Processor (SFP), or a mothership must complete
and retain a separate BSR for each delivery of
unprocessed groundfish or donated prohibited
species received from a catcher vessel on behalf
of an associated processor.
A buying station is a tender vessel or land-based
entity that receives unprocessed groundfish from a

vessel for delivery to a shoreside processor, SFP,
or mothership and that does not process those fish.
An associated processor is a mothership or
catcher/processor issued a Federal Fisheries
Permit (FFP) or a shoreside processor or SFP
issued a Federal Processor Permit (FPP), with a
contractual relationship with a buying station to
conduct groundfish buying station activities for
that processor.
A copy of a BSR is not submitted to NMFS. The
BSR must accompany the shipment of fish; and a
separate BSR must be created for each incident
described in the following table.

Write a Separate BSR
For each associated processor
For each truck, if groundfish offloaded to a truck bound for an associated processor
For each airline shipment, if groundfish offloaded to an airplane bound for an associated processor
For each reporting area, if receiving harvest from more than one reporting area
For each crab protection area. If receiving harvest from a vessel using trawl gear, use two separate BSRs,
the first to record the information from the reporting area that includes the COBLZ or RKCSA and the
second to record the information from the reporting area that does not include the COBLZ or RKCSA
For each gear type, if receiving harvest from more than one gear type
For each special management program -- Western Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ)
Program, Research Fishery, Exempted Fishery, or Aleutian Islands Pollock Fishery; add identifying
number, if appropriate
If receiving halibut under a donated prohibited species program
If you need assistance in completing this report or need additional information:
Call: 907-586-7228
BSR Attachments.
The operator or manager must ensure that the
following documents accompany each groundfish
delivery from the landing site to the associated
processor:
♦

A complete and accurate BSR that
describes the delivery;

♦

Any blue catcher vessel daily fishing
logbook (DFL) logsheets or equivalent

Buying Station Report
Revised August 25, 2011

Fax: 907-586-7131
printed electronic logbook (ELB) discard
reports received from a catcher vessel;
and
♦

Copies of all Alaska Department of Fish
and Game (ADF&G) fish tickets issued to
the catcher vessel on behalf of the
associated processor.

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Buying Station for Own Catch
The operator of a catcher vessel, by prior
arrangement with an associated processor, may
function as a buying station for his own catch as
follows:
♦

♦

By shipping his groundfish catch with a
copy of the BSR directly to that processor
via truck or airline in the event that the
processor is not located where the harvest
is offloaded; or
By driving a truck that contains his catch
and a copy of the BSR to the processor.

DATA ENTRY TIME LIMITS.
The operator or manager of a buying station must
record in the BSR all required information and
sign the BSR within 2 hours of completion of
delivery from a catcher vessel.
REQUIRED INFORMATION
The operator or manager of a buying station must
record the following information on a BSR for
each delivery:
Original/Revised Report.
If a BSR is the first submitted to the Regional
Administrator for a given date, gear type, and
reporting area, indicate “ORIGINAL REPORT.”
If a BSR is a correction to a previously submitted
BSR for a given date, gear type, and reporting
area, indicate “REVISED REPORT.”
Identification of Buying Station.
Enter name and ADF&G vessel registration
number if a vessel; or name, license number, and
state of license issuance if a vehicle. The name
should be recorded as it is displayed in official
documentation.
Operator or Manager Name and Signature.
The operator or manager must sign the completed
BSR prior to delivery of harvest to a mothership,
shoreside processor, or SFP. This signature is
verification by the operator or manager of
acceptance of the responsibility required in
§679.5(d).

Buying Station Report
Revised August 25, 2011

Management Program.
Indicate whether harvest occurred under a special
management program (Western Alaska
Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program,
Research Fishery, Exempted Fishery, or Aleutian
Islands Pollock (AIP)) and add identifying
number, if appropriate. If harvest is not under one
of these management programs, leave blank.
Gear Type. Indicate gear type of harvester. If
gear type is not printed, circle OTHER and write
description of gear.
Federal Reporting Area.
Indicate Federal reporting area (see Figures 1 and
3 to part 679) from which groundfish were
harvested.
Crab Protection Areas.
If harvester gear type was trawl and gear retrieval
occurred in the COBLZ or RKCSA (see Figures
11 and 13 to part 679), use two separate BSRs to
record the information: one BSR for the reporting
area that includes COBLZ or RKCSA, and a
second BSR to record the information from the
reporting area that does not include COBLZ or
RKCSA.
Associated Processor
If associated processor is a mothership, enter the
name, ADF&G processor code, and Federal
fisheries permit number of the mothership. If
associated processor is a shoreside processor or
SFP, enter the name, AD&FG processor code, and
FPP number of the processor. Enter date
(mm/dd/yy) and time (A.l.t., military format)
delivery was completed.
CATCHER VESSEL DELIVERY
INFORMATION
Catcher Vessel Identification.
Name and ADF&G vessel registration number of
catcher vessel making the delivery.

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Non-Submittal of Discard Report.
Indicate whether the blue logsheet was received
from the catcher vessel at the time of catch
delivery. If the blue logsheet is not received from
the catcher vessel, enter “NO” and the reason
given for non-submittal as follows
(example: NO-L):
NON-SUBMITTAL
OF DISCARD REPORT
The catcher vessel does not have an FFP
The catcher vessel is under 60 ft (18.3 m)
LOA and does not have an FFP
The catcher vessel is under 60 ft (18.3 m)
LOA and has an FFP
The catcher vessel delivered an unsorted
codend
Another reason; describe circumstances

CODE

DISCARD AND DISPOSITION
INFORMATION
The operator or manager of a buying station must
record in a BSR, discard or disposition that:
♦

Occurred on and was reported by a
catcher vessel on a blue logsheet;

♦

Occurred on the buying station prior to
delivery to an associated processor; and

♦

Was recorded on a blue DFL logsheet
submitted to the buying station by a
catcher vessel when no groundfish were
delivered by the catcher vessel (for
example, disposition code 95 describes
fish or fish products eaten onboard or
taken off the vessel for personal use).

“P”
“P”
“L”
“U”
“O”

ADF&G Fish Ticket Number. Enter ADF&G fish
ticket number issued to catcher vessel.
Species Codes and Scale Weight.
In addition to recording the total estimated
delivery weight or actual scale weight of a catcher
vessel delivery, if the operator or manager of the
buying station sorted the delivery prior to delivery
to an associated processor, he or she may enter
specific species code and scale weights of
individual species to the BSR; indicate whether to
the nearest pound or to 0.001 mt.
Groundfish Weight.
Enter the estimated total groundfish hail weight or
actual scale weight of delivery.

If no discards or disposition for a delivery, write
“no discards.”
Discard or Disposition Weight.
Record the total estimated discard and disposition
weight of groundfish and herring Prohibited
Species Catch (PSC) by species code and product
code (indicate whether to nearest pound or to the
nearest 0.001 mt).
PSC Discard or Disposition Numbers.
Record the total PSC discard or disposition
number of Pacific salmon, steelhead trout, Pacific
halibut, king crab, and Tanner crab by species
code and product code.

Hail weight is an estimate of the total weight of
the entire catch without regard to species.
In addition to groundfish weight, if the operator or
manager sorted the delivery prior to delivery to an
associated processor, he or she may enter specific
species code and scale weights of individual
species.
Indicate whether to the nearest pound or to the
nearest 0.001 mt.

Buying Station Report
Revised August 25, 2011

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