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The electronic logbook, which may include the use of physical media such as CD-Rom, memory stick, or diskette, obviate the need for operators of fishing vessels to send in paper logbook pages on landing. Moving to an electronic system for the collection of these logbook data has many beneficial and practicable benefits in the form of increased NMFS efficiency, data accuracy, and burden reduction for operators over the current paper process. (Need more on system background).