West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program

As part of its fishery management responsibilities, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) collects information to determine the amount and type of catch taken by fishing vessels. This collection supports monitoring requirements including electronic fish tickets and scale test requirements for first receivers in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery's shorebased individual fishery quota (IFQ) program; and mothership and catcher/processors in the at-sea whiting fisheries. The collection also supports permits for businesses that provide certified observer and certified catch monitor services. The respondents are principally shorebased first receivers, catch monitor and observer service providers, mothership processors, and catcher/processors which are companies/partnerships. This submission is a revision because information collections for electronic fish ticket reporting are being removed from this packaged and placed into package OMB Control Number 0648-0738 to consolidate electronic fish ticket information collections.

The latest form for West Coast Region Groundfish Trawl Fishery Monitoring and Catch Accounting Program expires 2021-06-30 and can be found here.

Catch monitor qualifications and appeals

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