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National Marine Fisheries Service issues permits to fishing industry individuals and corporations and also to individual recreational fishers.  More....

Permits Types

A wide range of permit types are issued.  Some representative examples are:  More....

Business Drivers

Fisheries are managed regionally, but, many participants in the fishing industry are national or multinational in scope.  It would be a convenience to these participants to offer a one-stop-shop for permits.  Also, a one-stop-shop would facilitate maintenance of a single identifier for an industry participant who fishes or processes fish in multiple regions, and it would leverage efforts to improve data quality across regions.    More....

Business Risk in the Permit Context

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Transactions: data sensitivity and volume

In general these permit applications do not contain highly sensitive information.  However, most have some personally identifying information (PII) and some few applications may contain proprietary business information.

New permit application volume nation-wide is estimated at __ new permits per year.

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