Daily purse seine fishing effort report

U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OMB No. 0648-0649

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSHPHERIC ADMINISTRATION Expires 01/31//2019

NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

INSTRUCTIONS FOR DAILY FISHING REPORTS

The owner or operator of any U.S. purse seine vessel must submit a Daily Fishing Report to NMFS within 24 hours of the end of each UTC day that the vessel is at sea in the WCPF Convention Area (50 CFR 300.218(g)).

This daily report is required regardless of whether fishing occurred and regardless of the type of set(s) made.

There are two ways to satisfy this reporting requirement:

(1) The vessel owner or operator submits the Regional Purse Seine Logsheet (RPL) so that it is received by NMFS within 24 hours of the end of the UTC day, such as through the use of an electronic log. If the RPL is complete for that day, the RPL will serve as the Daily Fishing Report, and no further reporting action is needed for that day; or

(2) The vessel owner or operator submits the report by e-mail to NMFS to the following address: [email protected]. In this case, follow these instructions:

Each report must include the following information:

• Vessel name

• Vessel registration number

• UTC date being reported on (not the report submission date)

• Location (Latitude/Longitude in Degree Minutes and direction)

• Activity code (same codes as on RPL – see below)

• If a set was made, the school association code (same codes as on RPL – see below) and set start time

If more than one set was made during that 24 hour period, all the pieces of information must be provided for each set.

The subject of the e-mail must read “Daily Fishing Report”. The required information must be provided in the body of the e-mail message, in the following format:

VESSEL NAME/VESSEL REGISTRATION NUMBER/DATE (ddmmyy, in UTC)/LATITUDE (DDMM.MMMM N or S)/LONGITUDE (DDDMM.MMMM E or W)/ACTIVITY CODE/SCHOOL ASSOCIATION CODE (if any)/SET START TIME (if any) (hhmmZ, in UTC)

An example for November 27, 2016, a day on which no sets were made (main activity was searching):

TUNABOAT/1234567/271116/0509.123S/16302.925W/2

An example for November 27, 2016, a day on which one set was made (unassociated set):

TUNABOAT/1234567/271116/0509.123S/16302.925W/1/1/1915Z

If more than one set was made during that 24 hour period (UTC day), provide the information in multiple rows—one for each set—as in the following example involving 1 feeding-on-baitfish set and 1 set on a drifting raft, FAD or payao:

TUNABOAT/1234567/271116/0509.123S/16302.925W/1/2/0530Z

TUNABOAT/1234567/271116/0409.123S/16202.925W/1/4/1915Z

Activity Codes	School Association Codes
1 Fishing set	1 Unassociated set
2 Searching	2 Feeding on baitfish
3 Transit	3 Drifting log, debris or dead animal
4 No fishing – breakdown	4 Drifting raft, FAD or payao
5 No fishing – bad weather	5 Anchored raft, FAD or payao
6 In port – please specify	6 Live whale
7 Net cleaning set	7 Live whale shark
10 Deploying or retrieving rafts, FADs or payaos	8 Other