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The Interagency Electronic Reporting System (IERS) is an interagency project involving the three agencies that manage commercial fisheries in Alaska: Alaska Department of Fish and Game, National Marine Fisheries Service, and the International Pacific Halibut Commission. Commercial seafood processors are required to report data on seafood harvest to these agencies. Traditionally reporting has involved a combination of paper forms, such as fish tickets and weekly production reports, and electronic reporting such as shoreside processor electronic reporting (SPELR) and IFQ web-based reporting of halibut and sablefish.
The IERS provides the Alaska fishing industry with a consolidated, electronic means of reporting landings and production of commercial fish and shellfish to multiple management agencies. The agencies worked together to implement a system that enables the seafood industry to report landing, production, and IFQ to all 3 fishery management agencies through a single application. The data are stored in a shared elandings repository database and each agengy pulls agency pulls the data that is needed for management.
Benefits of the IERS include:
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- eLandings - web-based access for seafood processors
- seaLandings (including an elogbook)- locally installed program which enables data submission via email for catcher/processors and motherships with no web access report at sea. seaLandings also includes an elogbook (ELB) for catcher/processors and motherships.
- tLandings - locally installed program for salmon, shellfish and groundfish tenders with no web access
- Agency Interface - locally installed access for fisheries agency personnel
- System Interface - provides an interface for processors to transmit landing information directly from their own record-keeping systems.
IERS also offers an elogbook for catcher vessels and the ability to integrate with the Commercial Operators Annual Report (COAR).
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Attached are various presentations on eLandings. Note that each presentation is tailored for a specific audience and may assume local knowledge of fisheries management issues or of the project's administrative or technical environment.Attachments
Historical Documents
The first formal documents published for this project are the Needs Analysis and the Technology Assessment, both published in July 2002. As a result of conclusions from the initial phase, a technology demonstrator project was conceived, and conclusions were published in December 2003.