NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Program

OMB 0648-0445

OMB 0648-0445

Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) are required to be used in certain commercial fisheries off Alaska to provide vessel location information to monitor compliance with time, area, and gear closures and area-specific quota allocations. VMS units automatically transmit the location of a vessel several times per hour using a Global Positioning System satellite. A communications service provider receives the transmission and relays it to NOAA Fisheries Office for Enforcement. The VMS unit is passive and automatic, requiring no reporting effort of the vessel operator. This collection is revised due to the associated rule (RIN 0648-BI65) for Amendment 118 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) Management Area, which authorizes retention of legal-size halibut in pot-and-line and longline pot gear used to fish for halibut or sablefish in the BSAI. Under this action, all vessels fishing sablefish or halibut with pot gear will be required to use VMS.

The latest form for NMFS Alaska Region Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) Program expires 2021-01-31 and can be found here.

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Revision of a currently approved collection 2024-02-20
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2023-10-19
Extension without change of a currently approved collection 2020-11-06
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2020-01-08
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2019-10-08
Withdrawn and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2019-08-26
Approved without change
Extension without change of a currently approved collection 2017-10-06
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2016-11-04
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2016-08-19
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2014-11-25
Preapproved
Revision of a currently approved collection 2014-10-16
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2014-07-07
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2013-08-09
Preapproved
Revision of a currently approved collection 2011-10-24
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2011-07-27
Approved without change
Extension without change of a currently approved collection 2009-11-13
Approved without change
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection 2009-01-26
Improperly submitted and continue
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection 2008-10-17
Approved with change
Extension without change of a currently approved collection 2006-08-10
Approved with change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2005-07-21
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2005-02-11
Comment filed on proposed rule and continue
Revision of a currently approved collection 2004-10-29
Approved without change
Revision of a currently approved collection 2002-05-24
Approved without change
New collection (Request for a new OMB Control Number) 2001-12-05
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