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nmfs is going to impl federal logbook, not interested in designing a paper system
500 vessels, reporting daily when they fish, vessels may fish 9 months per year
More.... legislative or other policy mandates
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Permit transfer volume nation-wide is estimated at __ transfers per year.
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. Near to real-time information on catch and bycatch is required as an element of national standard 1 (reduce bycatch)
have 7 or 8 overfished species, these are restricting ability of fleet to access OY sector allocations, ability to accurately track bycatch is critical to allow fleet to maximze OY
under current system logbook gets plugged into modeling future OY, where fishing is and etc. takes 1.5 years to get logbook and observer data into the models
More.... The more could include what business benefit they derive from the permit and what business risk they incur if they break NMFS rules. Is this the spot for cycle times?
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