eLandings Overview
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 and IFQ web-based reporting of halibut and sablefish.
...
In addition, the elandings system has an eLandings Training Instance with Training Scenarios as well as an eLandings Test Instance and the test site has links to test plans, valid codes, and related documents.
Implementation
The long-term goal of IERS is to provide a single reporting system for commercial harvest and production of groundfish, halibut, salmon, and shellfish in Alaska. The eLandings reporting system was first released for the Bering Sea / Aleutian Islands Crab Rationalization Program when the first fishery opened on August 15, 2005.
eLandings reporting of groundfish and halibut IFQ landings began in January 2006 on a voluntary basis. The system became mandatory for groundfish in 2009. eLandings for salmon was introduced in 2009 and is currently has been incrementally implemented throughout the state of Alaska.
Commercial Fishing Overview
Fisheries are regulated to ensure controlled harvest of species with a focus on future viability of the fishery. Regulatory measures for managing fisheries include limiting access to permitted entities, specifying harvest quotas, and allocating species by target fishery, gear, area, season, and management program. A recent innovation in fisheries management is individual fishing quotas which allow the quota holder flexibility in when and how to fish, but, restrict the quota owner to a specific amount of catch per year.
...
Seafood processing at shoreside plants begins with offloading, weighing, grading and pricing, recording fishing trip data and licenses and permits, and reporting the landing to regulatory agencies. Seafood processing at sea is similar to shoreside processing with the exception that reporting is generally of the final product, and the offload of product occurs at intervals independent of fishing trips.
eLandings Presentations
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.
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.
...