Business Context, Transaction Types and Volume

National Marine Fisheries Service issues permits to fishing industry individuals and corporations and also to individual recreational fishers.  june council meeting pfmc taking up 2009/10 specs for groundfish requested dev and impl of logbook program for fixed gear groundfish both limited and oa... all line boats and pot boats

states declined to impl, although they are interested in success

all prior logbook programs on west coast were state

nmfs is going to impl federal logbook, not interested in designing a paper system

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