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- A landing report is defined as the initial or first exchange of seafood product from the harvester to a second party. The second party may be a buyer, receiver, processor or expediter. The landing report will document one or more ADF&G fish ticket(s), and may also generate a NMFS production report, and one or more more IFQ report(s).
The range of seafood you receive and process will determine your Operation type and there are a number of different licenses and permits that may be required. The State of Alaska requires that all buyers of seafood product obtain an annual Intent to Operate license, commonly referred to as the ADF&G Processor License Code.
Processors or receivers of federally managed groundfish species must obtain a Federal Processors Permit (FPP). Buyers or receivers of IFQ halibut or sablefish must obtain a federal Registered Buyers Permit (RB); and each receiver of rationalized crab must obtain a Registered Crab Receiver (RCR) permit. The Crab Rationalization Program is exclusive to the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island (BSAI) king and tanner crab fisheries.
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The owner of the catch must establish a custom processing operation for each plant that does the actual processing. This allows the owner of the catch to maintain visibility and control of the landing reports. The landing reports are usually should be created and submitted on the owners behalf by users at the plant that are doing the custom processing. The owner of the seafood product must have a valid ADF&G Processor Code license and the processing facility will need to have their own receiving permits from Fish and Game as wells well as NMFS. These permits are used to establish the custom processing owner operation. Once the operation is established, the users at the custom processing facility will be authorized to make landing reports for the custom processing owner operation. This is akin to providing the custom processor with the metal process code plate to create paper fish ticket records.
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Buying Station
A Buying Station is an operation a land-based entity that receives unprocessed catch groundfish from a vessel for trans-shipment or delivery to a shoreside processing plant or mothership processor and that does not process those the fish (NMFS 679.2 Definitions). A buying station can be considered an annex of the plant or mothership (this is not done in Federal fisheries) for which it is doing receivingacting as an agent. Buying Stations may be are usually completely shore based, such as a truck being loaded for transport to a distant plant, or may be a scow (a barge-like vessel). Tenders are a special type of buying station that have their own operation typeno longer considered to be the same operation type as a Buying Station and were removed as a selectable child operation in eLandings back in 2016.
Tender
A tender operation is a vessel that is attendant to catcher vessels and is used to transport or ferry unprocessed fish or shellfish received from another vessel to a shoreside processor or mothership (not in Federal fisheries). This "child" operation is no longer considered a selectable operation type as it created too many database entries over time.
User Accounts
Before a operation can use the eLandings system to submit reports they must establish a user account for each individual who will actually use the system. A user is an individual that has been designated to use the eLandings System to record seafood landings and production. Each individual that will use the eLanding System must be identified by name. The user management subsystem of eLandings controls which individuals are able to view and enter data on reports for specific operations. User accounts also allow the system to pre-populate some data fields on landing and production reports, such as processor codes, processor permit numbers, and port code.
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