Daily Purse Seine Fishing Effort Report

U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSHPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

OMB No. 0648-0649
Expires 07/31/2024

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:
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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
1 Fishing set
2 Searching
3 Transit
4 No fishing – breakdown
5 No fishing – bad weather
6 In port – please specify
7 Net cleaning set
10 Deploying or retrieving rafts, FADs or payaos

School Association Codes
1 Unassociated set
2 Feeding on baitfish
3 Drifting log, debris or dead animal
4 Drifting raft, FAD or payao
5 Anchored raft, FAD or payao
6 Live whale
7 Live whale shark
8 Other

U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSHPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE

OMB No. 0648-0649
Expires 07/31/2024

Privacy Act Statement
Authority: The collection of this information is authorized under the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention
Implementation Act (WCPFCIA; 16 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.).
Purpose: In order to fulfill obligations under the WCPFCIA, the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
requires the submission of information for NMFS to monitor daily catch and effort information of the U.S. purse seine
vessels fishing for highly migratory species in the Commission’s area of competence for compliance-related and scientific
purposes.
Routine Uses: The Department will use this information to collect information on U.S. purse seine daily catch and effort
information. Disclosure of this information is permitted under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. Section 552a), to be
shared within NMFS offices, in order to coordinate monitoring and management of sustainability of fisheries and
protected resources, as well as with the applicable State or Regional Marine Fisheries Commissions and International
Organizations. Disclosure of this information is also subject to all of the published routine uses as identified in the Privacy
Act System of Records Notice COMMERCE/NOAA-6, Fishermen’s Statistical Data.
Disclosure: Furnishing this information is mandatory.

Activity Codes
1 Fishing set
2 Searching
3 Transit
4 No fishing – breakdown
5 No fishing – bad weather
6 In port – please specify
7 Net cleaning set
10 Deploying or retrieving rafts, FADs or payaos

School Association Codes
1 Unassociated set
2 Feeding on baitfish
3 Drifting log, debris or dead animal
4 Drifting raft, FAD or payao
5 Anchored raft, FAD or payao
6 Live whale
7 Live whale shark
8 Other