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NMFS trains observers that the documented time of gear deployment represents the first hook in the water and the documented time of gear retrieval represents when the last hook came out of the water. This interpretation enables NMFS to gather information on the entire time that hooks were in the water and were able to potentially interact with marine resources (fish, seabirds, marine mammals, etc). This definition is also consistent with NMFS interpretation of gear deployment for trawl gear, which starts when the first part of the trawl net enters the water.
How to enter gear deployment and retrieval in the seaLandings
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Daily Trip Report
To help describe how to enter the longline gear deployment into the elogbookDaily Trip Report, we will use this schematic of a longline gear deployment with 2 positions:
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