Hawaii Pelagic Longline Cost-Earnings Questionnaire

OMB Control No. 0648-0773 Expiration Date: xx/xx/20XX

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HAWAII PELAGIC LONGLINE COST-EARNINGS QUESTIONNAIRE

For 2019¹ operation

Survey date: __________________________

Surveyor:_____________________________

Vessel Name: ______________________________________

Vessel’s permit number: ______________(can fill in later in office)

Interviewee’s name: ________________________ Contact (phone): _______________

Interviewee position: Vessel owner  Owner operator  Hired captain  Vessel manager or______

Vessel operator:  _______% trips taken by owner operator in 2019

 _______% trips taken by hired captain in 2019

I. About the Owner OR Owner-Operator

1. How many active longline fishing vessels do you or your company own with Hawaii longline permits?

_______ # of active vessel(s)

_______# of permit (non-active vessel)

2. When did you start to own your first longline vessel in Hawaii longline fishery? ______ year

3. Have you captained a longline vessel in 2019?  Yes  No

If yes, did you captain all the trips taken by the vessel in 2019?  Yes  No

4. Last year (2019), did you land and sell any fish on the West Coast?  Yes  No

If yes, why did you decide to land on the West Coast, instead Hawaii?

 Better price in West Coast

 Needed to pick up crew

 Needed to go West Coast for a dry dock

 Other (please give details) _______________

5. Do you own other businesses beside fishing  Yes  No

5a. If yes, how important is fishing to your company portfolio (in term of % of revenue)? ___________ in 2019

6. Did you hire a vessel manager/agent to manage land-based business related to fishing in 2019?  Yes  No

6a. If yes, how to pay for this position? $_______ (a month)?

What are the main tasks of the vessel manager (such as get supply ready for trips? Bookkeeping?) ___________

7. Where do you usually sell your fish and how much do you pay for handling fees?

% __________ United Fishing Agency (Auction), the fee is %_________of revenue% __________ other stores in Hawaii, the fee is %_________ of revenue for handling or other fees

%___________outside Hawaii, the fee is %_____________ of revenue for handling or other fees;

8. In what year were you born ________-

II. About the Hired Captain and Crew (for owner operator, skip Question #9&10 and go to #11)

9. Is the hired captain a family member or relative to the owner?  Yes  No

10. Captain age? __________years

11. How long has your captain been with your company? ________ years

12. Number of crew working in this vessel in 2019

12a: number of local crew ____

12b: number of foreign crew ______ and where are they from

________ Pilipino (# of crew)

________ Indonesian (# of crew)

________ others (# of crew)

13. How many crew in this vessel are on a renewed contract? __________

III. About the Vessel and Vessel Purchase

14. What is the vessel’s fuel capacity? ____________ gallons

15. What is the vessel’s holding (fish) capacity? ________ metric tons

16. When was the vessel purchased? ___________ year

17. What was the vessel purchase price? $______________

17a. Did the vessel purchase price included permit: Yes  No.

If No, the price for the permit $_____________( lease  purchase  free from initial allocation)

18. What was the start-up costs (to get it ready for fishing first time after purchase) $______________

19. What is the vessel appraisal value in 2019 (or the survey year) $___________? and when was the last appraisal performed __________(year)?

19a. When was the last major upgrades (not including the state-up costs) that would have changed the vessel market value

________ (year) and how much it costs for the updates $__________?

20. How much you think your vessel (include all gear and equipment and permit) could be sold for? $______________

20a. How much you think your permit could be sold for? $______________

21. Did you purchase or lease the permit for this fishing vessel? Yes (purchase) Yes (lease)  No

21a. If yes, when it was purchased or leased ________ Year

21b. If yes, how much did it cost for purchase for $________________ or lease $_____________ per year?

IV. Fixed Costs in 2019 (not including trip costs)

22. How do you pay mooring fees, by trip or by month?  by trip or  by month

22a. Annual total mooring fees? $ ______________ in 2019

23. Did you do your own bookkeeping/accounting or hire someone (may skip for hire captain)?

 No, I do my own bookkeeping

 Yes, I hire someone (including shared one with other businesses in the company) but different from the vessel manager

23a. If Yes, how much did you spend on bookkeeping/accounting in 2019 for this vessel? $ __________ per year

24. What was the annual insurance cost for this vessel in 2019? $ ________________ per year

24a. This included (please check):

Vessel

 Liability (“P” and “I”)

 Health (Please specify who is covered) __________________

 Pollution

25. Did you have any vessel loan payments for this vessel in 2019?

 Yes If yes, 25a. how much? $ _____________ per month (OR $ _____________ per year)

 No

26. Please list routine maintenance (not including trip costs) done for the vessel in 2019 and the annual cost of each

1) _____________________________________________ $ ________________

2) _____________________________________________ $ ________________

3) ______________________________________________ $ ________________

4) ______________________________________________ $ ________________

27. Please list major repairs and upgrades in 2019 (Not include the routine maintenance and “start-up” costs listed above, this may include gear replacement, generators, engine transmission, gear box for engine, engine parts, spool, exhaust systems, etc.) and the total costs for each repair):

1)______________________________________________ $ ________________

2) ______________________________________________ $ ________________

3)______________________________________________ $ ________________

4) ______________________________________________ $ ________________

28. About dry-dock cost:

28a. How often do you dry dock the vessel? Every _______ years

28b. When did you last dry dock your vessel? ______________ year

28c. How much did it cost? $________________

28d. If dry dock was done in 2019, were any major repairs listed in Q26 include in this cost? (ask this to avoid double counting) _____________________________________________

29. Have you overhauled your engine in the past?  Yes  No

29a. How often do you overhaul? How many years in between? _______ years

29b. When did you last overhaul your vessel? ______________ year

29c. How much did it cost? $________________

30. Did I miss any items on other fixed costs?  Yes  No

29a. If yes, how much are the other fixed costs $_________ what are the other fixed costs_____________________?

V. Labor Costs (how fishermen get paid)

In the following questions the terms ‘share’ (%) are interpreted as part of the revenue or net revenue from a fishing trip goes towards the caption or crew. This is in contrast to ‘flat rate’ ($) which is when a crewmember earns the same amount of money regardless of the revenues from a fishing trip or per month. Trip Revenue is defined as after sale revenue. Net revenue is defined as after sale and trip costs are deducted.

31. How many people’s pay check was based on the revenue generated from this vessel and how did they get pay? _______ people

30a: Owner  Shares _________% of  gross revenue or  net revenue

30b: Vessel manager  Flat rate $___________  per trip or per month

Or  Shares _________% of  gross revenue or  net revenue

30c: Captain  Shares _________% of  gross revenue or  net revenue

30d: ____# of Crew  Shares _________% of  gross revenue or  net revenue

30e: ____# of Crew  Flat rate +  Bonus and the bonus schedule_____________ (% of lbs etc?)

Or Average $_________ per crew  per month  per trip

32. Initial cost/payment to retain a foreign/non-local crew member?

31a. Initial payments for foreign crew (including agent fees, airfare/tickets, transit (min. 30 days from Samoa or Ensenada, etc) )

$_______________ per crew

31b. Non-local/Micronesian crew (fee for green cards, medical, etc.) $_______________ per crew

31c. Average years for a new contract/foreign crew that initial payment occurred ______________ years

33. Which of the following trip expenses did you subtract from the trip revenue to get net revenue (for shares)

 Trip costs (e.g. fuel, bait, resupply of gears, prevision, etc.)

 Others (details: ___________________________________________)

Use the table below to list the information for Q30, 31, 32 for each person accordingly:

Position	Foreigner (Y/N)	Shares % Or flat rate	Of Trip Revenue or Net Revenue	Flat Rate (Per Trip or Per Month)	Bonuses (Per Trip or Per Month)	Initial Payment (when hired)	What Year (for initial payment)
Owner/Operator		_________%	trip rev net rev
Hired Captain		_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per triplbs caught ___ Per tripPer month
Crewmember 1	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per triplbs caught ___ Per tripPer month	$_______
Crewmember 2	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per triplbs caught	$_______
Crewmember 3	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per trip lbs caught	$_______
Crewmember 4	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per trip lbs caught	$_______
Crewmember 5	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per trip lbs caught	$_______
Crewmember 6	Yes No	_________%	trip rev net rev	$____________ Per tripPer month	$___________ Per trip lbs caught	$_______

VI. Trip Costs (Only for the vessels without any cost data collected from the observers)

34. Did your vessel conduct tuna and swordfish trips in 2019?

 Only tuna and swordfish

 Only swordfish

 Both tuna and swordfish

35. If this vessel took both tuna and swordfish trips in 2019 or did that previously, are there any costs for switching one gear type to another

34a. Costs to switch from swordfish fishing to tuna fishing: _________ (cash and labor?)

34b. Costs to switch from tuna fishing to swordfish fishing: _________ (cash and labor?)

36. For your 2019 trips, how much did you “average” trip cost (if vessel fished two trip types in 2019, asked for both trips)?

Average tuna trip $ _________

Average Swordfish trip $ _________

37. For your 2019 trips, how much did you usually spend on an “average” trip (if vessel fished two trip types in 2019, asked for both trips)?

Trip type:  Tuna  Swordfish

1. Fuel cost : Fuel used: ___________ Gallons, Fuel price _______, Fuel cost $ ____________

2. Bait cost: Bait used: ____________ Boxes, Bait price ________, Bait cost $ __________

3. Oil cost (included engine oil & hydraulic oil): _________ gallons per trip, and total oil cost per trip = $_________

4. Ice cost = $_________

5. Fishing gear costs = $__________

6. Provisions (food) costs = $__________

7. Communications = $__________

8. Lightstick costs (for swordfish fish trip ) $________________

VII. Industry Perspectives

38. What are the biggest three constrains or challenges that impact the economic performance of your fishing business

1. _________________

2. __________________________

3. __________________________

We appreciate the confidential nature of the data being collected by this survey. NMFS will handle individual survey data as confidential business information and a form of protected personal information and will maintain the confidentiality of the information consistent with legal authorities available to it, including but not limited to the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. Section 552a) and the Trade Secrets Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1905). NMFS will protect individual survey data from public disclosure to the extent permitted by law and it has instituted procedures to provide that protection.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement. NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is collecting this economic information to improve its ability to conduct the analyses required by the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) and other applicable law. NMFS and the Regional Fishery Management Councils will use this information to monitor, explain and predict changes in the economic performance and impacts of commercial fisheries. Among other things, this will enable fisheries managers and the public to more fully consider the economic effects of proposed and existing regulations for federally managed fisheries.

A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0648-0773 and its expiration data is XX/XX/2023. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately 60 minutes per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information collection are voluntary. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the NOAA Fisheries at: 1845 Wasp Blvd., Building 176, Honolulu, HI 96818, Attn: Minling Pan, and Minling.Pan@noaa.gov if desired.

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