Annual Rockfish Cooperative Report

Revised: 12/29/2014 OMB Control No. 0648-0545 Expiration Date 01/31/2015

Rockfish Cooperative Report

U.S. Dept. of Commerce/ NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Restricted Access Management (RAM) P.O. Box 21668 Juneau, AK 99802-1668 (800) 304-4846 toll free / (907) 586-7202 in Juneau (907) 586-7354 fax

Each Rockfish cooperative must submit an annual Rockfish Cooperative report to NMFS detailing the use of the cooperative’s cooperative quota (CQ) by December 15 of each year.

The annual rockfish cooperative report may be submitted to the Regional Administrator

by an electronic data file to eFISH at https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/login

by fax to 907-586-7557

or by mail to Regional Administrator

NMFS Alaska Region

P.O. Box 21668

Juneau, AK 99802-1668

The Annual Rockfish Cooperative Report must contain the following information:

Cooperative's CQ

Any rockfish sideboard fishery harvests made by cooperative vessels on a vessel-by-vessel basis

Actual retained and discarded catch of CQ

Sideboard limit (if applicable) by statistical area and vessel-by-vessel basis

Describe method used by the cooperative to monitor fisheries in which cooperative vessels participated

Describe any actions taken by the cooperative in response to a member exceeding their catch

as allowed under the rockfish cooperative agreement

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PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT

Public reporting burden for this collection-of-information is estimated to average 40 hours per response, including the time for reviewing the instructions, searching the existing 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.) as amended in 2006; 3) Responses to this information request are confidential under section 402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act as revised in 2006. They are also confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.

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Rockfish Cooperative Report

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