ADF&G: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is a state of Alaska agency with a mission to protect, maintain, and improve the fish, game, and aquatic plant resources of the state, and manage their use and development for the maximum benefit of the people of the state, consistent with the sustained yield principle. ADF&G has full management authority for salmon, herring, and most shellfish. The Department shares management responsibilities for Bering Sea and Aleutian Island king and tanner crab, and statewide groundfish.
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Batch Year: The year the fish ticket was processed in a batch. This year can be different from the year of landing especially for crab and groundfish fisheries that are prosecuted in December, but the ticket was not batched until January of the next year.December, but the ticket was not batched until January of the next year.
Brailers Met Criteria: A quality field requested by industry to convey if brailers met the quality criteria set my the processors. If brailers are overloaded the fish at the bottom of the brailer get crushed, deteriorating their quality.
Buyer-exporter: The first purchaser of unprocessed fish that exports out of the state of Alaska fisheries resources that are either unprocessed or custom processed.
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Chill Type: Refrigeration system used to keep fish cold in the vessel hold. It is generally used in conjunction with Temperature. This is a courtesy field provided to Processors at their request to help track quality of catchis generally used in conjunction with Temperature. This is a courtesy field provided to Processors at their request to help track quality of catch.
Chill Water Temp: A quality field requested by industry. In some cases if the fish are caught and immediately delivered to the tender they don't cool down in the chill water, but they are very fresh. The chill water temp allows the processor to determine this.
Commercial Fishery Entry Commission: Quasi-judicial state agency responsible for promoting the conservation and sustained yield management of Alaska's fisheries resources and the economic health and stability of commercial fishing in Alaska by limiting participation in Alaska's fisheries. More information available at: http://www.cfec.state.ak.us/
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Deadloss: Crab must be delivered live for the live/fresh market or for processing. Dead crab deteriorate quickly and are unsuitable for human consumption. Crab that are harvested live, but subsequently die prior to delivery to the processor or for dockside sales are considered deadloss. This harvest must be recorded on the landing report, as it is an extraction from the resourceit is an extraction from the resource.
Deck Load: A quality field requested by industry. If the catcher vessel runs out of fish hold space they may stack fish on their decks. These don't benefit from the chill system and may be of lower quality.
Delivery Code (Del. Con. or Deliv. Cond. Code) See Delivery condition code.
Delivery condition code: Condition of the fish or shellfish at the point it is weighed and recorded on the fish ticket. Delivery condition codes provide important information utilized to convert the scale weight to whole weight.
Delivery Latitude/Delivery Longitude: For groundfish tender deliveries the delivery location lat/long is required in tLandings.
Discard: To throw away, reject, or dump a portion of the catch at-sea or at the dock before processing.
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Fish ticket number (ADF&G): The unique fish ticket number generated by the eLandings System. Each landing report and each fish ticket are uniquely numbered in the eLandings System.eLandings System.
Floating: A quality field requested by industry. If the fish are floating in the water in the fish hold that indicates they have been in there for awhile, and are of lower quality
Gear (ADF&G Gear Code): The specific apparatus or equipment used to catch fish or shellfish. A few examples of gear include: longline, pots, beam trawl, and purse seine.
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Production Report: A daily report required by NMFS for shore-side processors, motherships and catcher-processors that provides information on the production of groundfish caught in the EEZ. A production report must be submitted daily by plants and catcher processors that are actively operating and contains the State and Federal reporting areas, species, product code, and product weight.
QA Graph: A quality field requested by industry. Indicates that the catcher vessel provided quality data to the processor.
QA Probe Score: A quality field requested by industry. Result of testing for bacteria level.
Quota Share: Quotashare (QS) is issued in the halibut, sablefish and rationalized crab fisheries to fishers. Processing quota share (PQS) is issued by the Regional Administrator to persons who successfully apply for an initial allocation or receive QS or PQS (respectively) by transfer.
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- any person who receives IFQ halibut, CDQ halibut or IFQ sablefish from the person(s) who harvested the fish;
- any person who harvests IFQ halibut, CDQ halibut or IFQ sablefish and transfers such fish in a dockside sale, outside of an IFQ regulatory area, or outside the State of Alaska;
- a vessel operator who submits a Departure Report required under 50 CFR Part 679.5CFR Part 679.5.
Scale Loss: A quality field requested by industry.Indicates the fish were losing scales, indicating they had been in the hold for awhile.
Shoreside processor: Any land-based person, company or vessel that receives unprocessed or limited-processed fish or shellfish, except catcher/processors, motherships, buying stations, restaurants, or persons receiving groundfish for personal consumption or bait (NMFS 679.2 definitions).
Slide: A quality field requested by industry. Indicates the fish were transferred from the catcher vessel to the tender using a slide, which reduces handling and associated damage.
Soak time: The measure of time between the setting of baited pot gear in water to begin fishing and the pulling and emptying of catch (frequently the pot is re-baited and set again). Soak time is utilized in a determination of effort.
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Statistical area (Stat Area): The five or six-digit ADF&G statistical code denoting a specific area of catch. Statistical areas are unique to the fishery "type". For example, there are unique statistical areas for salmon, herring, and shellfish/groundfish harvests. Also referred to as 'stat area.' Groundfish and shellfish (except Southeast Alaska) utilize a six-digit stat area number loosely based on latitude and longitudeon latitude and longitude.
Tally Invoice: A report available in the tLandings system. Some processors have the tender provide an invoice with the tally data, and an identifier for keeping it in their records.
Tender: A vessel that is attendant to other vessels and is used to transport or ferry unprocessed fish or shellfish received from another vessel to a shoreside processor or mothership. Tender vessels operate, in most circumstances, as an agent for a specific processor and take deliveries from harvesting vessels.
Tender ADF&G vessel number: The ADF&G vessel number assigned to an acting tender vessel. See ADF&G vessel number:
Tender Batch: A field that is assigned in the Processor Tender Interface (PTI) by processors when they are uploading landing reports that were created in tLandings. Some processors have the tender batch the fish tickets for their own business processes. ADF&G can look up landing reports associated with the tender batch. This is separate from ADF&G fish ticket batching.
Time of Landing: The time fish or shellfish are off-loaded or trans-shipped from the catcher vessel to the first purchaser. The time of landing is the day off-load is completed. For catcher-processors the time landed is the time the product is caught and brought on board. For catcher-seller vessels the land date time is the time the product is initially brought into port. See Date Landed
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