NC Catch Card

Billfish, Shark and Tuna Catch Card
Reporting Station Copy
Year

Date

Day

Month

CHECK SPECIES LANDED

2021

BILLFISH

Reporting Station:

Blue Marlin
White Marlin
Sailfish
Roundscale Spearfish
Swordfish

Permit Number:
Vessel Name:
Trip Type: Charter

Private

Headboat

SHARKS

Tournament Name:

Atlantic Sharpnose
Blacknose
Blacktip
Blue
Bonnethead
Bull
Common Thresher
Finetooth
Great Hammerhead

Tag Number:
Length (inches)
Pounds (optional)
Sex (SHARKS ONLY, see back for description)
Male

Female

SEE HOW TO TAG AND MEASURE FISH ON BACK
All the Highly Migratory Species landed in North Carolina must have a Landing Tag
affixed before removal from the vessel. Tags are available at all HMS Reporting
Stations. To obtain a Landing Tag, captains or operators of permitted vessel must
complete and submit a catch card for every HMS landed. This information collection
is approved under OMB Control #0648-0328 (expires 12/31/2022).

TUNA
Atlantic
Bluefin Tuna

Lemon
Nurse
Oceanic Whitetip
Porbeagle
Scalloped Hammerhd.
Shortfin Mako
Smooth Dogfish
Smooth Hammerhd.
Spinner
Tiger

Dead Discard of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Billfish, Shark and Tuna Catch Card Tag Receipt
Angler’s Copy

Anglers should keep this receipt in
hand while in possession of the fish

Official Use Only
Tag Number (from above)
NC HMS Catch Card Contact Information
Name

Telephone
Number

E-mail

Dallis Tucker
Drew Cathey

252-948-3816
252-946-6481

[email protected]
[email protected]

301-427-8104

[email protected]

888-872-8862

http://hmspermits.noaa.gov/

NOAA
Daemian Schreiber

HMS Permits
Renewals/New

After Hours Reporting
800-682-2632

Use only when no other option available

REPORTING SITE

Anchorage Marina
Captain Stacy Fishing Center
Chasin Tails Outdoors
Seawater Marina
Olde Towne Yacht Club
Town Creek Marina
Hurricane Fishing Center
Harker's Island Fishing Center
Hatteras Harbor Marina
Oden's Dock
Teach's Lair Marina
Holden Beach Marina
Oregon Inlet Fishing Center
Pirate's Cove
Shallowbag Bay Marina
Carolina Princess
EJW Outdoors
Portside Marina
Ocean Isle Fishing Center
Anchorage Marina
Southport Marina
Outer Banks Marina
Bridge Tender Marina
Creekside Yacht Club

LOCATION

Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach
Beaufort
Beaufort
Calabash
Harker's Island
Hatteras
Hatteras
Hatteras
Holden Beach
Manteo
Manteo
Manteo
Morehead City
Morehead City
Morehead City
Ocean Isle
Ocracoke
Southport
Wanchese
Wrightsville Beach
Wrightsville Beach

TELEPHONE
252-726-4423
252-726-4675
252-240-3474
252-726-1637
252-726-3066
252-728-6111
910-579-3660
252-728-3907
252-986-2166
252-986-2555
252-986-2460
910-842-5447
252-441-6301
252-473-3906
252-305-8726
252-726-5479
252-247-4725
252-726-7678
910-575-3474
252-928-6661
910-457-9900
252-473-9991
910-256-6550
910-350-0023

HOW TO MEASURE AND TAG
Tuna

Tagging
Location

Snout
(Upper Jaw)

Tail
Fork

HOW TO DETERMINE SEX
OF SHARKS
Male

Curved Fork Length Measurement

Billfish

Male (claspers very visible)

Tagging Location
Tail
Fork

Lower
Jaw
Lower Jaw to Tail Fork

Sharks

Tagging Location

Female

Female (no claspers)

Tail
Fork

Snout

Snout to Tail Fork

PROHIBITED SHARK SPECIES
Sharks

Atlantic Angel
Basking
Bigeye Sandtiger
Bigeye Sixgill
Bigeye Thresher
Bignose
Caribbean
Sharpnose
Caribbean Reef
Dusky
Galapagos
Longfin Mako

Narrowtooth
Night
Sandbar
Sandtiger
Sevengill
Silky
Sixgill
Smalltail
Whale
White