Registered buyer landing report

Revised: 03/31/2015 OMB Control No. 0648-0272 Expiration Date 03/31/2018

IFQ Registered Buyer Landings 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) 304-484ll free / 586-7202 in Juneau (907) 586-7354 fax

Registered Buyers must report individual fishing quota (IFQ) halibut/sablefish landings and Western

Alaska Community Development Quota (CDQ) halibut landings to NMFS electronically using eLandings or using eFISH online. The decision to use one of the two methods depends on the respondent. Many respondents prefer to sell to a processor, because they don't have to do the actual IFQ report submissions. The processor does the reporting on eLandings. For out of state IFQ landings, there are no processors in Washington that have access to eLandings, so eFISH is a natural choice for them.

In eLandings, a Registered Buyer Landing report is called the "groundfish landing report" and there is the ability to submit an IFQ report within it if the fisher has landed halibut or sablefish.

Here is an example: https://elandings.atlassian.net/wiki/display/tr/eLandings+IFQ+halibut+and+IFQ+sablefish+landing+report The processor that buys the fish must have a Registered Buyer permit associated with the operation prior to the landing entry in eLandings.

In eFISH a Registered Buyer Landing Report is called an "IFQ Permit Holder/Hired Master Landing Report" (https://elandings.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=10427626) and it's used primarily for out of state IFQ landings and for those fishers in Alaska that only sell dockside instead of to a processor.

The Registered Buyer must sign and submit a completed landing report within six hours after all IFQ halibut, CDQ halibut, and IFQ sablefish are offloaded from a harvesting vessel and prior to shipment or transfer of the fish from the landing site. If the landing report is submitted online, the NMFS ID and password are the equivalent of a signature.

This report may be submitted online through eFISH at https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/login or submitted through eLandings at http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/er/.

Registered Buyer landing report

UserID and password of person assigned for that system

Landing date (mm/dd/yyyy)

Location (port code) of the landing

Permit number of the IFQ permit holder, and any IFQ hired master permit holder, or CDQ hired master permit holder

harvesting the fish and permit number of Registered Buyer receiving the IFQ halibut, IFQ sablefish, or CDQ halibut.

Delivery information as reported by the IFQ permit holder, IFQ hired master permit holder, or CDQ hired master

permit holder

Harvesting vessel's ADF&G vessel registration number

Gear code of gear used to harvest IFQ halibut, IFQ sablefish, or CDQ halibut

ADF&G fish ticket number(s) for the landing (after the initial eLandings report is submitted, eLandings assigns an

ADF&G fish ticket number to the landing report)

ADF&G statistical area of harvest

If ADF&G statistical area is bisected by a line dividing two IFQ regulatory areas, provide the IFQ regulatory area

of harvest

Initial accurate scale weight(s) (to the nearest pound) made at the time of offloading for IFQ halibut, IFQ sablefish, or

CDQ halibut. Includes sold and retained (where retained includes fish intended for personal use, fish weighed and

reloaded for delivery to another processor, and fish landed but rejected at the dock by the Registered Buyer).

Species codes, delivery condition code, and disposition code for each ADF&G statistical area of harvest

NOTE: Accurate weight of IFQ sablefish processed product obtained before the offload may be substituted for the

initial accurate scale weight at time of offload, if the vessel operator is a Registered Buyer reporting an IFQ sablefish

landing

Indicate whether initial accurate scale weight is given with or without ice and slime.

Fish which have been washed prior to weighing or which have been offloaded from refrigerated salt water are not eligible

for a 2% deduction for ice and slime and must be reported as fish weights without ice and slime. The 2%t deduction is

made by NMFS, not the submitter

Indicate whether IFQ halibut is incidental catch concurrent with legal landing of salmon or concurrent with legal landing

of lingcod harvested using dinglebar gear

Signatures for IFQ halibut, CDQ halibut, or IFQ sablefish deliveries

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REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT

Public reporting for this collection of information is estimated to average 8 minutes for electronic response or 18 minutes for manual 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 this 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

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