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- Evaluation and Approval of the Business Plan, and
- Implementation of the Electronic Signature Process.
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tions 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 the regulation authorizes the use of optional electronic logbooks. Affected operators of fishing vessels must record their catch daily in a logbook and report logbook entries to NMFS within
72 24 hours of the completion of each fishing
tripday.
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 NOAA promulgated the final rule authorizing the use of electronic logbooks on April 17, 2007. This regulatory action was based, in part, on an analysis included in a Regulatory Amendment published by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Council in November of 2006 that articulated the benefits of electronic logbook reporting. 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 at the completion of fishing
tripsdays. Moving to an electronic system for the collection of these logbook data has many beneficial and practicable benefits in the form of increased
NFMS efficiency,
accessibilitydata accuracy, and
reliability burden reduction for operators over the current paper process.
(Need more on system background).