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- Evaluation and Approval of the Business Plan, and
- Implementation of the Electronic Signature Process.
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ions have made changes to the Fishery Management Plan for the Bottomfish and Seamount Groundfish Fisheries of the Western Pacific Region. In particular, non-commercial fishers must apply for a permit and record their catch daily in a logbook and report logbook entries to NMFS within 72 hours of the completion of each fishing trip. OMB approved the information collection for the
permitand reporting process effective August 18, 2008. The permit and reporting requirements took effect on September 1, 2008, when the fishery reopened for the season.
The Hawaii Non-commercial Bottomfish Logbook is a web based system designed to facilitate reporting by recreational and subsistence fishers in this fishery. This web-based application will obviate the need for fishers to send in paper logbook pages at the completion of fishing trips. Moving to an electronic system for the collection of these logbook data has many beneficial and practicable benefits in the form of increased efficiency, accessibility, and reliability over the current paper process. (Need more on system background).