[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 8, 2001)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 41664-41715]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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50 CFR Part 679



Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Revisions to 
Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements; Proposed Rule

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 679

[Docket No. 010313063-1063-01; I.D. 121200A]
RIN 0648-AO20


Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Revisions to 
Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: NMFS proposes revisions to several sections of regulations 
that pertain to permits, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements for 
crab and groundfish fisheries off Alaska. The proposed changes are 
necessary to remove obsolete text, clarify and simplify existing text, 
facilitate management of the fisheries, promote compliance with the 
regulations, and facilitate enforcement efforts. This action is 
intended to further the goals and objectives of the fishery management 
programs for crab and groundfish fisheries off Alaska.

DATES: Comments must be received by September 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments must be sent to Sue Salveson, Assistant 
Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NMFS, Alaska Region, 
P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802 (Attn: Lori Gravel), or delivered to 
Federal Building, Fourth Floor, 709 West 9th Street, Juneau, AK, and 
marked Attn: Lori Gravel. Copies of the Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) 
prepared for this action may be obtained from the same address or by 
calling the Alaska Region, NMFS, at 907-586-7228. Send comments on 
collection-of-information requirements to the same address and to the 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), Washington, DC 20503 (Attn: NOAA Desk 
Officer).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patsy A. Bearden, 907-586-7228.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    NMFS manages the groundfish fisheries in the Exclusive Economic 
Zone (EEZ) off Alaska and the crab fisheries in the EEZ of the Bering 
Sea and Aleutian Islands area according to fishery management plans 
(FMPs) prepared by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council 
(Council) under the authority of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 
Conservation and Management Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. The FMPs are 
implemented by regulations at 50 CFR part 679. General regulations that 
also pertain to these fisheries appear in subpart H to 50 CFR part 600.
    This action proposes revisions to several sections of the 
implementing regulations for these FMPs that pertain to permits, 
recordkeeping and reporting. Most of the proposed revisions are 
technical edits and clarifications to existing recordkeeping and 
reporting (R&R) requirements and are described under the section-by-
section analysis. The balance of the proposed revisions are more 
substantial and are highlighted in this document. They would alter 
current R&R procedures.

Proposed Changes

    Several terms would be standardized in this proposed rule and 
others would be corrected for uniformity wherever they appear. 
``Central GOA regulatory area'' would replace in regulatory text: 
``Central area of the GOA'', ``Central Gulf'', ``Central regulatory 
area of the GOA'', and ``GOA central area''. ``Western GOA regulatory 
area'' would replace: ``Western area of the GOA'', ``Western Gulf'', 
``Western regulatory area of the GOA'', and ``GOA western area''. 
``Eastern GOA regulatory area'' would replace: ``Eastern area of the 
GOA'', ``Eastern Gulf'', ``Eastern regulatory area of the GOA'', and 
``GOA eastern area''. ``Stationary floating processor'' would replace 
``Vessel of the United States operating solely as a mothership in 
Alaska State waters''. ``BSAI'' would replace ``Bering Sea and Aleutian 
Islands management area''. ``GOA'' would replace ``Gulf of Alaska 
management area''. ``Maximum retainable amount'' would replace 
``Maximum retainable bycatch amount''. ``Exempted fishery'' would 
replace ``Experimental fishery''. The term ``Bycatch'' would be 
replaced with ``Incidental catch'' when the meaning is fish caught 
while targeting on some other fish, but does not include discard of 
fish that were released or returned to the sea, regardless of whether 
such fish are brought fully on board a fishing vessel.
    The term ``ADF&G Number'' would be replaced by ``ADF&G vessel 
registration number''. The term ``ADF&G processor number'' would be 
replaced by ``ADF&G processor code''. In certain logbooks, the term 
``ADF&G vessel No.'' would be replaced by ``ADF&G processor code.''
    The term ``CDQ delivery number'' would be replaced by ``Date 
fishing began'' wherever it appears in regulatory text, logbooks, and 
forms. The term ``CDQ observer'' would be replaced in appropriate 
regulatory text by ``Level 2 observer'' to comply with changes in the 
American Fisheries Act (AFA) program and observer requirements. The 
gear type ``jig/troll'' would be separated into two separate gear 
types, ``jig'' and ``troll.''
    Cross references and parenthetical notes would be added for clarity 
and to point the reader to other sections for additional information.

Figures

    Figure 19 would be added to describe Shelikof Strait Conservation 
Area (SSCA), and the text at Sec. 679.22(b)(3)(iii)(B) would be changed 
to refer to Figure 19.
    Figure 20 would be added to describe the Steller Sea Lion 
Conservation Area (SCA) of the Bering Sea, and the text at 
Sec. 679.22(a)(11)(iv)(B) would be changed to refer to Figure 20.

Tables

    Table 1--Product and Delivery Codes would be revised.
    Relevant to the Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program, the 
introductory paragraph under IFQ codes would be revised to explain that 
only two product codes would be authorized for IFQ or CDQ Pacific 
halibut and that all of the product codes on Table 1 are authorized for 
IFQ or non-IFQ sablefish.
    To accomplish a more accurate accounting of IFQ species weight, 
effective January 1, 2002, the IFQ landing reporting system (includes 
automated terminals (ATMs) and manual landings) would require an 
additional question about whether the fish species weight includes ice 
and slime, ``YES'' or ``NO.'' If YES, the program would calculate a 2-
percent deduction from the weight debited from the IFQ permit account. 
Those fish which have been washed prior to weighing would not be 
eligible for a positive ice-and-slime response or 2-percent deduction. 
It is anticipated that any future ice-and-slime products could be 
easily calculated using the 2-percent approach, without causing 
disruption to persons submitting reports or to the database.
    Also effective January 1, 2002, the following ice-and-slime codes 
would be removed: 51--Whole fish/food fish with ice & slime; 54--
Gutted, head on, with ice & slime; 55--Gutted, head off, with ice & 
slime; 57--Headed and gutted, Western cut, with ice & slime; 58--Headed 
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and slime. Removal of the ice-and-slime product codes would keep NMFS' 
product codes consistent with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game 
(ADF&G) product codes while meeting the needs of the IFQ program for 
accurate account management.
    Product code 02 would be revised by removing two words--``processed 
for''--from the description of ``Whole fish/bait. Processed for bait. 
Sold'' to read ``Whole fish/bait. Bait. Sold''. The existing definition 
mentions processing, which is not appropriate, because no processing 
takes place.
    Product code 11 would be revised from ``kirimi'' to read ``kirimi 
(steaks)'' to further align with ADF&G descriptions.
    Product codes 41 and 42, which currently appear on Table 1, would 
be moved from the discard/disposition section into the general use code 
section.
    Code 88 would be added to mean ``Whole fish, discard, infested. 
Flea-infested fish, parasite-infested fish.''
    Code 89 would be added to mean ``Whole fish, discard, decomposed. 
Decomposed or previously discarded fish.''
    Code 96 would be removed and replaced by codes 88 and 89. Code 96 
meant ``discard, decomposed. Flea-infested fish, parasite-infested 
fish, decomposed, or previously discarded fish''.
    Because five major systems use the same product codes, it is 
necessary that the product codes be uncomplicated, simple, and 
consistent: (1) When IFQ products are entered through the IFQ reporting 
system; (2) when groundfish products are reported electronically, 
either through the shoreside processor electronic logbook report 
(SPELR) (with the SPELR, the computer keeps track of balances based on 
the product code itself and does not require separate sections for 
summary as is the case for the logbooks) or the electronic weekly 
production report (WPR); (3) when groundfish products are reported in 
logbooks and WPRs to NMFS; (4) when groundfish products are reported on 
ADF&G fish tickets; and (5) when groundfish products are reported on 
the State of Alaska (State) Commercial Operator's Annual Report (COAR). 
These revisions to Table 1 would place all of the required codes 
together in one location.
    An explanatory footnote (1) and appropriate codes marked with the 
footnote (1) would be added to use whole fish codes to record round 
weight of a fish, even if the whole fish is not used (e.g., bait, eaten 
on board).
    The regulatory descriptions of product designations would be 
removed from the Definitions section, Sec. 679.2 and added to Table 1. 
Regulatory text discussing use of codes at Sec. 679.5(a)(6)(iii)(F)(2), 
(3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) would be removed and added to Table 1 as a 
series of notes within each appropriate code.
    Table 2--Species Codes. The species codes would be arranged in 
alphabetical order for easier reference.
    A footnote would be added to Table 2 to revise the code categories 
formerly called ``federally managed'' and ``State code'' to read ``FMP 
species'' and ``non-FMP species''. This revision would allow a finer 
description of species that have complex management. For example, black 
and blue rockfish were removed from the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) FMP but 
are still part of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area 
(BSAI) FMP, and come under the ``other rockfish'' Total Allowable Catch 
(TAC). Codes 142 (black rockfish, BSAI) and 167 (blue rockfish, BSAI) 
are added as FMP species. Codes 142 (black rockfish, GOA) and 167 (blue 
rockfish, GOA) are added as non-FMP species. Jellyfish presents another 
problem, since it is not federally managed; yet it is not represented 
by a State code. Another problem is that some species are federally 
managed at times, and State managed at other times (e.g., Pacific cod). 
Regulations at Sec. 679.5 require that FMP species be recorded and 
reported in logbooks and forms. Non-FMP species may be recorded and 
reported at the discretion of the participant. A note would be added to 
the table title to explain which species codes are defined as FMP 
species (Federal groundfish and Federal prohibited species).
    The code for Pacific herring would be changed from 230 to 235. Code 
230 is the code for a directed fishery; code 235 is the code for 
prohibited species.
    Code 260*, a non-FMP species code, would be revised from ``Codling, 
Pacific flatnose'' to read ``Pacific flatnose'' to agree with the State 
species description.
    Code 701* would be changed to an FMP species code and would read 
``701--skate, longnose''.
    Code 888, a species code used only with the product transfer report 
(PTR) meaning ``mixed species tote'', would be removed because use of 
this code is in opposition to requiring individual species 
identification as products. This code was created to assist small 
processors with small shipments. However, NMFS discovered that the code 
causes confusion for shipments of species in any quantities from both 
small and large processors, because shipment weights of individual 
species are unknown and these species and weights are not deducted from 
the logbooks.
    The forage fish codes and descriptions would be removed from 
Sec. 679.2 (Definitions) and added to Table 2 as FMP species codes.
    The following non-FMP codes would be removed because they are too 
general in description and not useful for management: 190* Greenling, 
general; 510 Smelt, general; 880* Oysters; and 896* Sea urchin.
    Code 951 would be changed from ``multispine'' to read 
``multispina.''
    The following non-FMP species codes would be indicated by ``*'' and 
would be added to Table 2: 215* Prowfish; 216* Lumpsucker; 515* Smelt, 
surf; 625* Jellyfish; 680* Sturgeon, general; 714* Ratfish; 715* 
Skilfish; 720* Albacore; 890* Snails; 892* Sea urchin, red; 893* Sea 
urchin, green; 951* Multispina crab; and 953* Crab, Verrilli.
    Table 3--Product Recovery Rates. A footnote would be added to 
instruct readers how to obtain round weight of groundfish from product 
weight, IFQ net weight of Pacific halibut from product weight of 
halibut, and round weight of Pacific halibut from net weight. Code 86 
would be added to the column for values for whole fish product codes. 
Code 96 would be removed and codes 88 and 89 would be added as a column 
for values of Infested or Decomposed Fish. The PRR for gutted octopus 
of Sec. 0.69'' would be revised to read Sec. 0.81'' based on new 
research from ADF&G.
    Effective January 1, 2002, Table 3 would be revised by removing the 
IFQ ice-and-slime codes (see Table 1) and corresponding values in 
conjunction with changes in the IFQ landing reporting requirements. The 
row entry for ``IFQ sablefish'' would be removed causing the PRR values 
to be the same as ``sablefish'' once the ice-and-slime codes are 
removed.
    Various types of pollock kirimi products have been developed over 
the years. No PRR has been assigned for these products as a group 
although industry reports indicate a range of yields from about 18 
percent to about 42 percent depending on product form, fish size and 
buyer specifications. An average PRR for these products is estimated at 
25 percent. Pollock kirimi is not an approved product for the purpose 
of roe retention so producers of pollock kirimi during pollock roe 
season must discard pollock roe. In response to an industry 
recommendation, the PRR for pollock kirimi would be established at 0.25 
in Table 3.
    Table 7--Communities Determined to Be Eligible to Apply for 
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Development Quotas. Table 7 would be revised to add seven new 
communities recognized as Western Alaska Community Development Quota 
(CDQ) communities based on their location. Add Grayling to the Bering 
Strait CDQ Group; add Ekwok, Levelock, and Portage Creek and also list 
Pilot Point and Ugashik as two separate communities in the Bristol Bay 
CDQ Group; and add Mountain Village, Napuskiuk, Napakiak, and 
Oscarville to the Southwest Coastal Lowlands CDQ Group.
    Table 8--Harvest Zone Codes. Table 8 would be revised by removing 
code A for ``EEZ off Alaska'' and adding two new harvest zone codes to 
give better distinction to NMFS' groundfish database: Code A1 for 
``BSAI EEZ off Alaska'' and code A2 for ``GOA EEZ off Alaska.'' The 
requirement to record Harvest zone codes would be removed from the PTR.
    Table 9--Required Logbooks, Reports Forms, and Electronic Logbook 
Reports from Participants in the Federal Groundfish Fisheries. Table 9 
would be revised by removing the entry for ``Buying Station Daily 
Cumulative Logbook (DCL)'' and replacing it with ``Buying Station 
Report (BSR)''. The table also would be revised by removing the 
requirement for a buying station check-in and check-out report.
    Table 10--Gulf of Alaska Retainable Percentages. Table 10 would be 
revised by adding species codes next to the species name in the basis 
species column. Footnote numbers (1) would be added next to grouped 
species name in the basis species column so that the terms can be 
looked up in the GOA specifications in the Federal Register or on the 
Alaska Region Home Page at (http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/ 
sustainablefisheries/ 2000harvestspecs.htm). The abbreviation SEEO 
would be corrected to SEO; the meaning of SEO is Southeast Outside 
District.
    Table 11--Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area 
Retainable Percentages. Table 11 would be revised by adding a footnote 
to explain that certain fixed gear restrictions affect the use of the 
product recovery rate (PRR) values in Table 11. Table 11 is for people 
using any of the authorized gear types to calculate incidental catch 
based on a target species. However, if a person is aboard a vessel 
using fixed gear, retention of sablefish is different from what the 
table indicates in the following ways: (1) If you have IFQ quota, you 
must keep all sablefish that are caught (Sec. 679.7(f)(11)); and (2) if 
you do not have IFQ quota, you must not retain any sablefish that are 
caught (Sec. 679.7(f)(3)(ii)). The footnote would alert the 
participants to use the table for incidental catch calculations, except 
when IFQ sablefish and fixed gear are involved. In addition, Table 11 
would be revised by adding species codes next to the species name in 
the basis species column. Footnote numbers (1) would be added next to 
the grouped species name in the basis species column so that the terms 
can be identified in the BSAI specifications in the Federal Register or 
on the Alaska Region Home Page at (http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/ 
sustainablefisheries).
    Table 19--Seabird Avoidance Gear Codes. Table 19 would be added to 
present seabird avoidance gear codes for use with logbooks of vessels 
using longline or pot gear.

Groundfish Logbooks and Forms

    The term ``discard/donation'' would be replaced by ``discard/
disposition'' to better describe products that are utilized but not 
necessarily landed. An additional sheet would be added to each logbook, 
a goldenrod logsheet, for use by the observer. The distribution list on 
each logsheet would be corrected on all logsheets to represent the 
correct distribution sequence. ``Jig/troll'' would be separated into 
two separate gear types: ``jig'' and ``troll.'' The field entitled 
``target species'' would be replaced by ``target species code''. The 
date on the logsheets would be changed from ``2000'' to read ``2001''.
    The ``Management Program'' block would replace the ``CDQ'' block, 
and would be added to the catcher vessel longline and pot gear daily 
fishing logbook (DFL). The management block lists separate programs 
under which fish accounting is required (i.e., CDQ, IFQ, Research 
Program, and Exempted Fishery Program). An operator or manager may use 
any number of these programs, and if so, must enter the identifying 
number for the program. A new logsheet must be maintained for each 
program. A new logsheet must be maintained if more than one identifying 
number is used within each program.

Removed Definition

    ``CDQ delivery number'' would be removed; the program computer will 
create an identifying code based on the date fishing started.

Added Definitions

    ``Agent'' would be added to identify a person who may act on behalf 
of the owner, operator, or manager of a catcher vessel, catcher/
processor, mothership, shoreside processor, stationary floating 
processor, buying station or IFQ Registered Buyer to apply for permits 
or benefits on behalf of applicants.
    ``Associated processor'' would be added to identify the legal 
connection between a buying station and a federally permitted 
mothership, shoreside processor, or stationary floating processor.
    ``Endorsement'' would be added to present cross references to 
``area endorsement'' for the groundfish LLP permits; ``area/species 
endorsement'' for the crab LLP permits; and ``area endorsements'' for 
the scallop LLP permit.
    ``Experimental fishery'' would be added as a cross reference to 
Sec. 679.6 and to comply with a national change in use from 
``experimental fishery'' to ``exempted fishery.''
    ``Gear'' would be added to create a cross reference to the 
definition of ``authorized fishing gear.''
    ``Harvest zone codes'' would be added as a cross reference to Table 
8 to this part.
    ``Incidental catch or incidental species'' would be added to mean 
fish caught while targeting on some other species, but does not include 
discard of fish that were released or returned to the sea, whether or 
not such fish are brought fully on board a fishing vessel. An 
incidental catch is any species or species group for which a maximum 
retainable amount is calculated and is expressed as a percentage of the 
weight of the total fish on board (see Tables 10 and 11 to this 
part).''
    ``Product transfer report (PTR)'' would be added as a cross 
reference to Sec. 679.5(g).
    ``Representative'' would be added as a cross reference to 
Sec. 679.5(b).
    ``Seabird avoidance gear'' would be added to read ``(see 
Sec. 679.24(e), Sec. 679.42(b)(2), and Table 19 to this part).''
    ``Shoreside processor electronic logbook report (SPELR)'' would be 
added as a cross reference to Sec. 679.5(d).
    ``Tagged halibut or sablefish'' would be added as a cross reference 
to Sec. 679.40(g).
    ``Weekly production report (WPR)'' would be added as a cross 
reference to Sec. 679.5(i).

Revised Definitions

    ``Active/inactive periods'' would be revised to become a cross 
reference to Sec. 679.5(a)(7)(i).
    ``Ancillary product'' would be revised to become a cross reference 
to Table 1 to this part, and the definition text would be added to 
Table 1.
    ``Bycatch species'' would be revised to read ``bycatch or bycatch 
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targeting another species or caught and released while targeting the 
same species.
    Paragraph (1)(v) of ``fishing trip'' would be revised to exclude 
catcher vessels which do not operate on a weekly reporting period.
    ``Forage fish'' would be revised to become a cross reference to 
Table 2 to this part.
    ``Gear deployment'' would be revised to read ``gear deployment (or 
to set gear)'' and to describe both position and time.
    Paragraph (1) Position of gear deployment (lat. and long. to the 
nearest minute). ``Trawl gear'' is unchanged. ``Longline gear'' would 
be changed to read ``hook-and-line gear'' and would be changed from 
``where the gear enters the water'' to read ``the beginning position of 
a set of hook-and-line gear.'' ``Jig or troll gear'' would be added to 
mean ``the position where the jig or troll gear enters the water.'' 
``Pot gear'' would be revised from ``where the first pot enters the 
water'' to read ``the position of the first pot in a string of pots.''
    Under paragraph (2) ``Time of gear deployment (A.l.t.),'' ``trawl 
gear'' would be added to read ``the time when the trawl gear reaches 
the fishing level and begins to fish.'' ``Hook-and-line gear'' would be 
added to read ``the time when the first hook-and-line gear of a set is 
deployed. ``Jig or troll gear'' would be added to read ``the time when 
jig or troll gear enters the water.'' ``Pot gear'' would be added to 
read ``the time when the first pot in a string of pots is deployed.''
    ``Gear retrieval'' would be revised to read ``gear retrieval (or to 
haul gear)'' and to create two elements within gear retrieval: position 
and time where previously ``gear retrieval'' was defined only in terms 
of position. Also, the requirement to record time would be revised from 
``Alaska local time (A.l.t.), to the nearest hour'' to read ``Alaska 
local time'' without specifying to the nearest hour. Many fishermen 
have commented that sometimes only minutes separate activities and to 
round to the nearest hour results in confusing entries.
    Paragraph (1) Position of gear retrieval (lat. and long. to the 
nearest minute). ``Trawl gear'' is unchanged. ``Hook-and-line or 
longline pot gear'' would be split into ``hook-and-line'' and ``pot 
gear.'' ``Hook-and-line gear'' would be added to mean ``the position 
where the last hook-and-line gear of a set leaves the water, regardless 
of where the majority of the set took place.'' ``Pot gear'' would be 
added to mean ``the position where the last pot of a set is retrieved, 
regardless of where the majority of the set took place.'' ``Jig or 
troll gear'' remains unchanged.
    Paragraph (2), Time of gear retrieval (A.l.t.) would be added. 
``Trawl gear'' would be added to mean ``the time when retrieval of 
trawl gear cable commences.'' ``Hook-and-line gear'' would be added to 
mean ``the time when the last hook-and-line gear of a set leaves the 
water.'' ``Jig or troll gear'' would be added to mean ``the time when 
the jig or troll gear leaves the water.'' ``Pot gear'' would be added 
to mean ``the time when the last pot of a set is retrieved.''
    ``Groundfish'' would be revised by adding cross references to the 
definitions for license limitation program groundfish, CDQ species, and 
IR/IU species; and as a cross reference to Sec. 679.20 and to FMP 
species presented in Table 2 to this part.
    ``Logbook'' would be revised by removing the buying station daily 
cumulative logbook.
    ``Person'' would be revised to include non-citizens. The term 
``person'' is intended to apply to any person--U.S. citizen and non-
U.S. citizen alike (e.g., the prohibitions section).
    ``Primary product'' would be revised to create a cross reference to 
Table 1, and the definition text added to Table 1.
    ``Prohibited species'' would be added, unchanged from 
Sec. 679.21(b)(1) to make it easier to find.
    ``Reprocessed or rehandled product'' would be revised to create a 
cross reference to Table 1 to this part, and the definition text added 
to Table 1.
    ``Sablefish (black cod)'' would be revised by adding cross 
references to IFQ sablefish; fixed gear sablefish at Sec. 679.31(b); 
and sablefish as a prohibited species at Sec. 679.24(c)(2)(ii).''
    ``Set'' would be revised to improve consistency of recording and 
reporting of pot gear information and to more precisely define gear 
deployment and retrieval when the fishermen are using pot gear.

Section 679.4  Permits

General Permit Information

    Paragraph (a) would be added to summarize who is qualified for and 
who must obtain a permit. Paragraph (a)(1) would be added as a table 
presentation showing program/permit types available, effective dates, 
and other information. Paragraph (a)(2) would be added as a table 
presentation showing permit and logbook requirements by type of 
participant and fishery. Former paragraphs (a)(1) through (6) would be 
redesignated as paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(8) respectively. The 
heading of paragraph (a)(3) would be revised to a Question and Answer 
(Q&A) format. Newly redesignated paragraph (a)(3)(iii) would be revised 
to remove the words ``buying station'', because only vessel buying 
stations are required to obtain a permit and vessels are already 
mentioned in the paragraph. Paragraph (a)(3)(v) would be added to state 
that permits are issued free-of-charge; this statement originally was 
found at paragraphs (b)(1) and (f)(1), but all permits are issued free-
of-charge.

Federal Fisheries Permit

    Section 679.4(b)(3)(ii) would be divided into paragraphs (b)(3)(ii) 
and (iii) to present equally these two requirements. Paragraph 
(b)(3)(iv) would be added; this information was formerly found only on 
the permit application and needs to be included in the regulations.
    The heading for paragraph (b)(5) would be revised to the Q&A 
format. Paragraph (b)(5) would be reorganized. Paragraph (b)(5)(iii) 
would be revised to ask whether the vessel is used as a stationary 
floating processor. A stationary floating processor, even if it is a 
vessel, would take on the identity of a shore facility and would be 
issued a Federal processor permit.

IFQ Permits

    The heading for paragraph (d) would be revised to include the word 
``permits.'' Paragraph (d)(2) would be revised to list all of the 
persons who NMFS requires to have a Registered Buyer permit listed in 
one place. The heading for paragraph (d)(3) would be revised to a Q&A 
format and paragraph (d)(3)(i)(A) would be revised to include all 
persons who may need renewal of IFQ permits and cards.

Federal Processor Permits

    The heading for paragraph (f)(2) would be revised to the Q&A 
format. Paragraph (f)(2) would be reorganized. Paragraph (f)(2)(iii) 
would be added to incorporate the stationary floating processor. A 
stationary floating processor, even if it is a vessel, would take on 
the identity of a shore facility and would be issued a Federal 
processor permit. Questions would be added to paragraph (f)(2)(iv) as 
to whether the shoreside processor is replacing a previous processor at 
this facility; if yes, name of previous processor; and whether there 
are multiple processors at this facility.

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Section 679.5  Recordkeeping and Reporting

General Requirements

    Section 679.5 would be reorganized by removing duplication within 
sections, shortening descriptions of mundane tasks, and presenting 
options in tabular form so that specific requirements may be quickly 
located. The logbooks with similar time limits would be listed in one 
reference table in paragraph (a). Requirements for the mothership daily 
cumulative production logbook (DCPLo) (formerly Sec. 679.5(e)) and the 
shoreside processor DCPL (formerly Sec. 679.5(f)) would be integrated 
into general sections at Sec. 679.5(a). In several instances, headings 
in the Q&A format would replace existing headings. In-text tables would 
be used to display complex relationships to sort out multiple options, 
steps, conditions, and choices.
    The heading for paragraph (a)(1) would be revised to the Q&A 
format. Paragraph (a)(1)(i) would be revised to add that the owner, 
operator, or manager of the listed participants is responsible for 
compliance with R&R. Paragraph (a)(1)(i)(D) would be added; this 
paragraph was moved from former paragraph(a)(2) and adds that the 
shoreside processor and stationary floating processor also are 
participants. Paragraph (a)(1)(i)(E) would be added to explain the 
meaning of operator and manager. The headings for paragraphs (a)(1)(ii) 
and (iii) would be revised to the Q&A format. Paragraph (a)(1)(iii) 
would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(1)(iii)(A). The heading for 
paragraph (a)(1)(iv) would be removed and paragraph (a)(1)(iv) would be 
redesignated as paragraph (a)(1)(iii)(B). Paragraphs (a)(1)(iv)(A) 
through (C) would be redesignated and revised as paragraphs 
(a)(1)(iii)(B)(1) and (2), respectively. Paragraphs (a)(1)(iv)(A)(1) 
and (2) would be redesignated as paragraphs (a)(1)(iii)(B)(1)(i) and 
(ii), respectively. Paragraph (a)(1)(v) would be redesignated as 
paragraph (a)(1)(iv). Paragraph (a)(1)(v) introductory paragraph would 
be redesignated as paragraph (a)(1)(v)(A) and would be revised to 
clarify that catcher vessels over 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA must meet this 
requirement. Paragraph (a)(1)(v)(B) would be added to explain that 
participants using longline or pot gear who are not involved with the 
CDQ or IFQ fisheries need also to use this logbook. Paragraph (a)(3) 
would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(2). Paragraphs (a)(3)(i) and 
(ii) would be combined into paragraph (a)(2)(i). Paragraph (a)(3)(iii) 
would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(2)(ii). Paragraph (a)(2)(iv) 
would be added to explain that a buying station owner, operator or 
manager must be associated with a processor prior to receiving 
groundfish. Paragraph (a)(4) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(3). 
Paragraph (a)(4)(iii) would be removed because the buying station 
logbook has been removed as a requirement.
    Paragraph (a)(3)(iv) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(4) and 
would be revised by: Removing the expiration date from the heading; 
adding the words ``or receiving pollock harvested in a directed pollock 
fishery'' that are newly required under the AFA; changing references 
from paragraph (f)(3) to paragraph (d) and from paragraph (f)(4) to 
paragraph (e); and removing the last sentence because it duplicates 
newly redesignated paragraph (a)(2)(i).
    Section 679.5(a) would be revised to present common descriptions in 
one section, to eliminate duplication, and to ensure uniformity in R&R 
requirements. Paragraph (a)(5)(i) would be revised to include the name 
and signature of the operator or manager. Paragraph (a)(5)(ii) would be 
revised to present catcher vessel identification; name of catcher 
vessel was formerly at paragraph (a)(5)(i). Paragraph (a)(5)(iii) would 
be revised to present shoreside processor or stationary floating 
processor identification; name of shoreside processor was formerly at 
paragraph (a)(5)(i). In addition, the geographic location of plant 
would be requested, because some processors have more than one plant. 
Paragraph (a)(5)(vi) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(5)(iv) to 
present mothership or catcher/processor identification; name of 
mothership or catcher/processor was formerly at paragraph (a)(5)(i). 
Paragraph (a)(5)(iv) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(5)(v) and 
would be revised to present buying station identification; name of 
buying station was formerly at paragraph (a)(5)(i) and the remainder of 
the information was at paragraph (a)(5)(iv). In addition, the vehicle 
registration number of the buying station would be requested, in the 
event that the buying station is a truck. Paragraph (a)(5)(v) would be 
removed and incorporated into Sec. 679.5(b); this would be done to keep 
all of the representative information together. Paragraph (a)(5)(vi) 
would be removed because the signature information would be included at 
paragraph (a)(5)(i).
    Paragraph (a)(6) would be revised by adding introductory text. 
Paragraph (a)(6)(i) would be revised to account for removal of the 
introductory text. Paragraph (a)(6)(ii) would be revised to incorporate 
use of the ``inactive'' boxes on the logbook from paragraph (a)(7)(i). 
Paragraph (a)(6)(ii)(C) would be added to instruct user on completion 
of inactive box due to surrendered permit. Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(B) 
would be redesignated as paragraphs (a)(6)(iii)(A), and a table would 
be added presenting description of dates to be recorded in the logbook 
and buying station report (BSR) by participant. Paragraphs 
(a)(6)(iii)(B)(1) through (3) would be removed because the logbook 
formats have changed. A new paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(B) would be added to 
describe week-ending date. Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(C) would be unchanged. 
Former paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(A) would be redesignated as paragraph 
(a)(6)(iii)(D) and the heading revised. A new paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(E) 
introductory text would be added to describe logbook numbering. 
Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(E)(1) would describe numbering of logbooks of the 
same gear type. Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(E)(2) would describe numbering of 
logbooks of different gear types. Paragraph (c)(1) would be 
redesignated as paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(E)(3) and revised to instruct 
about separate DFLs for each vessel, paginated separately. Paragraph 
(a)(6)(iii)(E) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(F) and 
revised to remove mention of the buying station daily cumulative 
logbook (DCL) and to simplify the text.
    Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(F) would be removed. This paragraph described 
product codes, whole fish codes, discard product codes, and product 
designations. All of the information contained formerly in this section 
would be added to Table 1 to this part. Paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(G) would 
be removed. This paragraph described species codes. All of the 
information contained formerly in this section would be added to Table 
2 to this part.
    The heading for paragraph (a)(7) would be revised. Paragraph 
(a)(7)(i) would be added to paragraph (a)(6)(ii). A new paragraph 
(a)(7)(i) would be added to describe fishing activity, active period 
and inactive period by participant formerly found in paragraphs 
(a)(7)(ii), (iii) and (iv). A new paragraph (a)(7)(ii) would be added 
to describe recording of non-activity formerly found in paragraphs 
(a)(7)(ii), (iii) and (iv), (a)(8), (a)(9), and (a)(10). A new 
paragraph (a)(7)(iii) would be added to describe recording of fishing 
activity formerly found in paragraphs (a)(7)(ii), (iii) and (iv). A new 
paragraph (a)(7)(iii)(E) would be added to describe recording of 
participant information when not active.

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    A new paragraph (a)(7)(iv) would be added to describe weight, 
formerly found in paragraphs (a)(8), (a)(9), and (a)(10). A new 
paragraph (a)(7)(v) in tabular format would be added to describe 
recording of weight, formerly found in paragraphs (a)(8), (a)(9), and 
(a)(10). Three new paragraphs (a)(7)(vi), (vii), and (viii) would be 
added as cross references to Tables 1 and 2.
    Paragraph (a)(7)(v)(A) would be redesignated as paragraph 
(a)(7)(ix) and revised. New paragraph (a)(7)(x) would be added to 
present all of the occasions that would trigger a separate logsheet, 
WPR, or check-in/check-out report. Paragraph (a)(7)(v)(B) would be 
redesignated as paragraph (a)(7)(xi) and revised. New paragraph 
(a)(7)(xii) would be added to present areas with a reporting area that 
need to be reported if harvest was with trawl gear, formerly found in 
paragraphs (a)(8), (a)(9), and (a)(10). Paragraph (a)(7)(v)(C) would be 
redesignated as paragraph (a)(7)(xiii) and revised. A new requirement 
for shoreside processor or stationary floating processor would be added 
to record the dates each observer was present.
    Paragraph (a)(7)(v)(D) would be redesignated as paragraph 
(a)(7)(xiv) to describe crew size and would be revised. Former 
paragraph (a)(7)(v)(E) would be redesignated as paragraph (a)(7)(xv) 
and revised. This revision in tabular form adds other special programs 
to record, similar to the CDQ program and instructs how to record them.
    Paragraph (a)(8) and paragraph (a)(8)(i) would be revised. A new 
requirement would be added as paragraph (a)(8)(ii) to describe how to 
record landings as product under certain conditions. Paragraph (a)(9), 
the heading for paragraph (a)(9)(i) and the text of paragraph (a)(9)(i) 
would be revised. Former paragraph (a)(11) would be redesignated as 
paragraph (a)(9)(ii) and revised because this paragraph refers to 
production. Paragraph (a)(10) would be revised. This paragraph would 
present requirements by participant type. Paragraph (a)(10)(vii) would 
be added to present time limit requirements for all participants in 
tabular form for recording discards and disposition.
    A new paragraph (a)(11) would be added to present delivery 
information, formerly found at paragraphs (a)(15) and (a)(16), by 
participant type.
    Paragraph (a)(13)(ii)(A) would be revised to describe what ``on-
site'' means. Paragraph (a)(13)(ii)(B) would be revised to remove 
mention of the buying station. Paragraphs (a)(13)(ii)(C) through (F) 
would be removed because some of the instructions are duplicative of 
regulations found at other locations. Also the buying station logbook 
would be removed; therefore, the detailed instructions on handling the 
DCL would not be necessary.
    Paragraph (a)(14) introductory text would be removed as duplicative 
text. Paragraph (a)(14)(i) would be revised. Paragraphs (a)(14)(ii) and 
(iii) would be revised to remove the buying station DCL and to add the 
goldenrod logsheet to all logbooks. Former paragraphs (a)(15) and 
(a)(16) would be removed and incorporated into new paragraph (a)(11).
    New paragraph (a)(11) would add a comparison of different transfer 
forms in the regulations (VAR, PTR, IFQ shipment report, IFQ 
transshipment authorization, IFQ vessel clearance, IFQ departure 
report, and IFQ dockside sale receipt).

Representative

    Section 679.5(b) would be revised to incorporate former paragraph 
(a)(5)(v), representative's identification. This revision would bring 
all of the requirements for the representative to one location.

Catcher Vessel DFLs and Catcher/Processor DCPLs

    Section 679.5(a)(7)(xiv) and (c)(1) would be removed and 
incorporated into paragraph (a)(6)(iii)(E)(3). Paragraph (c)(2) would 
be removed and incorporated into paragraph (a)(11)(iv). Paragraph 
(c)(3) would be incorporated into earlier sections for those items that 
have common description and all duplicative text would be removed.
    Paragraph (c)(1) would add a new requirement in the longline and 
pot gear DFL and DCPL to record bird avoidance gear code when using 
longline gear. A check-box would be added to allow the operator, after 
completing all information regarding gear on one logsheet, to check the 
box on each subsequent logsheet if all gear information remains the 
same instead of re-entering that information on subsequent logsheets. 
The column entitled ``All other species'' would be changed from 
``pounds'' to read ''(lb or mt).'' The column entitled ``Landing date'' 
in the DFL delivery block would be replaced with ``Date.'' The title of 
the delivery block in the DCPL would be changed from ``IFQ landings'' 
to ``Delivery,'' because this logsheet is used by both IFQ and non-IFQ 
participants. The term ``haul'' would be removed from the DFL and DCPL 
in order to establish a standard method for recording pot gear 
information. Records would be defined in terms of ``set'' and the 
option to record ``haul'' would be removed. ``Haul or set No.'' would 
be removed and replaced with ``set No.'' ``Begin position of haul or 
set'' would be removed and replaced with ``begin position of set.'' 
``End position of haul or set'' would be removed and replaced with 
``end position of set.''
    In the trawl gear DFL and DCPL, the requirement to record ``haul or 
set number'' would be revised to ``haul number.''

Buying Station Report (BSR)

    Section 679.5(d) describing the buying station daily cumulative 
logbook (DCL) would be removed and in its place a new requirement, the 
BSR, would be added. The information required by the BSR would be the 
same as required by the multi-copy DCL. The BSR would allow the public 
a more flexible method of recording catcher vessel deliveries, by using 
an 8\1/2\  x  11 inch (0.21  x  0.27 m) sheet that can be easily 
photocopied. In addition, if a catcher vessel operator by prior 
arrangement with a processor will ship his groundfish catch directly to 
that processor that is not located where the catcher vessel is 
offloaded, the catcher vessel operator would complete a BSR to describe 
the catch and send the completed BSR with the shipment via truck or 
airline. When the shipment arrives at the processor, the information 
from the BSR would be incorporated into the DCPL.

Mothership DCPL

    Paragraph (e), mothership DCPL requirements, would be removed 
because the text incorporated into general requirements at paragraph 
(a) for those items that have common description and all duplicative 
text would be removed. In the mothership DCPL, the field requesting 
information on crew size would be changed from: ``number of processing 
crew, number of other crew, and total number of crew'' to read ``crew 
size.'' This change would make the mothership DCPL consistent with the 
other processor logbooks.

Shoreside Processor DCPL

    Section 679.5(f), shoreside processor DCPL requirements, would be 
removed because the text would be incorporated into general 
requirements at paragraph (a) for those items that have common 
description and all duplicative text would be removed.
    In the shoreside processor DCPL, the field ``date'' would be 
replaced by ``week-ending date'', because each page may be used for 1 
week.

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Shoreside Processor Electronic Logbook Report (SPELR)

    Paragraph (f)(3) would be removed and redesignated as paragraph (e) 
and the heading for paragraph (e) would be revised. A new requirement 
at paragraph (e)(1)(i)(B) would extend the required use of the SPELR to 
shoreside processors or stationary floating processors that receive 
pollock harvested in a directed pollock fishery. All SPELR records must 
be available for inspection and must be retained for 3 years after the 
end of the fishing year.

SPELR Printed Reports

    Requirements for the SPELR printed reports (formerly 
Sec. 679.4(f)(4)) would be added at new paragraph (f), and the 
expiration date for the paragraph on SPELR printed reports would be 
removed. All SPELR printed reports must be available for inspection and 
must be retained for 3 years after the end of the fishing year. The 
owner or manager would be required to sign and enter date of signature 
onto each SPELR printed report.

Groundfish Product Transfer Report (PTR)

    Section 679.5(g) would be revised by consolidating the two existing 
PTR formats (one for processor vessels, one for shoreside processors) 
into one, and the text that describes the information required would be 
clarified and simplified. A box to identify type of processor, a box to 
identify whether sender is the shipper or receiver, and a column 
entitled ``species weight'' to accommodate information on mixed species 
transfers would all be added. This column would be used to enter 
information for specific species products that are packaged together in 
one box and shipped to one destination. The weight of each product by 
species and product code would be recorded in addition to number of 
units, unit weight, and total weight.
    The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) document number of vessel processors, 
the page number along with the requirement to maintain a continuous 
numbering of the PTRs, the use of the term ``offload,'' and use of the 
harvest zones and the requirement to record them would be removed. The 
use of product code 888 of the PTR would be prohibited.
    The current requirement for a PTR is to obtain the total fish 
product weight for each species/product transferred, which includes 
recording the number of production units and average fish product 
weight of one production unit. Because all shoreside processors and 
many catcher/processors and motherships now have at-sea scales on 
board, an option would be added to allow actual scale weights for the 
total fish product weight and for each species/product. The intention 
of these revisions would be to allow a standard, straightforward form 
with options under a variety of conditions.
    Submittal requirements would be changed to include electronic 
submittal as well as FAX submittal of the PTRs to NMFS.

Check-in/Check-Out Reports

    Section 679.5(h) would be reorganized and revised for clarity. 
Submittal requirements would be changed to include electronic submittal 
as well as FAX submittal of the reports to NMFS.
    In the mothership and catcher/processor check-in and check-out 
report, replace the existing management block and add ``species'' after 
``target'' in the fields requesting target species codes.
    In the shoreside processor check-in and check-out report, replace 
the existing management block and add ``or process'' after the words 
``ceased to receive''.

Weekly Production Report (WPR)

    Section 679.5(i) would be reorganized and revised for clarity. 
Submittal requirements would be changed to include electronic submittal 
as well as FAX submittal of the reports to NMFS.
    In the mothership and catcher/processor WPR and shoreside processor 
WPR, the existing management block would be replaced with the new 
version. The gear type ``jig/troll'' would be separated into ``jig'' 
and ``troll''. The word ``code'' would be added after ``target 
species.''

Daily Production Report (DPR)

    In the DPR, the existing management block would be replaced with 
the new version. The gear type ``jig/troll'' would be separated into 
``jig'' and ``troll.'' The word ``code'' would be added after ``target 
species.''

U.S. Vessel Activity Report (VAR)

    Section 679.5(k) would be reorganized and revised for clarity. A 
new question would be added to ask the type of vessel (catcher vessel, 
catcher/processor or mothership). Two new harvest zone codes would be 
added to describe the EEZ of the BSAI and the GOA. Submittal 
requirements would be changed to include electronic submittal as well 
as FAX submittal of the reports to NMFS.

IFQ Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements

    The manner in which Registered Buyers indicate the presence of ice 
and slime in reported weights of IFQ fish products in IFQ landing 
reports would be changed. In the current system, Registered Buyers 
indicate the presence of ice and slime by selecting a product code in 
the ``50'' number series, all of which indicate that the reported 
weight includes ice and slime and for which the stored system product 
recovery rate (PRR) or conversion factor (CF) includes a correction to 
account for the non-flesh weight. The proposal would eliminate the 
``50'' series product codes, and their PRRs and CFs.
    The current PRRs and CFs result in too small an IFQ equivalent 
weight deduction, and a de facto deduction for ice and slime that 
actually exceeds the intended 2 percent. In addition, the current 
reporting system is not synchronized with the code system of the Alaska 
Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) (in which the ``50'' series has not 
been adopted), and additionally has proven to be inflexible when an 
inseason need arises to authorize reporting of additional product forms 
that include ice and slime. To address this, the reporting system would 
be modified by: (1) eliminating the ``50'' series special codes; and 
instead (2) asking a specific question about whether the reported 
weight includes ice and slime (in addition to flesh weight). The 
database would use both the reported product code and the ice/slime 
question answer to determine how to convert the reported weight to the 
``IFQ equivalent weight'' to be deducted from the appropriate account. 
To accomplish this, the IFQ database structure would be modified by 
making extensive changes to the programming code (i.e., the code that 
calculates, stores, and accomplishes editing of previously entered 
landings data).
    For example, if eastern cut sablefish (product 08) is reported with 
ice and slime, the system would multiply the reported weight by 0.98 
and multiply the resulting flesh weight by 1  0.63 to derive 
the IFQ equivalent weight for which the account is debited. If reported 
as being without ice and slime, the flesh weight would be converted by 
simply multiplying the reported product weight by 1  0.63.
    The following tables illustrate IFQ equivalent weight differences 
between the current calculation method (using the ``50'' series product 
codes and their PRRs and CFs) and the proposed method (which would 
deduct the 2

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percent ice and slime weight then convert the remaining flesh using 
``standard'' PRRs and CFs). Sample data are shown for 100 and 100,000 
pounds of halibut or sablefish weight reported for selected products.

                                                             Halibut Sample Conversion Data
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                                                                                  Current system                               Proposed system
                                                              ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Reported weight (lb)           Product  description                                                                                     Proposed IFQ
                                                                Halibut    Conversion     Current IFQ equivalent     Halibut   Conversion    equivalent
                                                                product      factor             weight (lb)          product     factor     weight (lb)
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100........................  Gutted..........................         04          0.9   90 lb.....................        04          0.9           90
100........................  Gutted w/IS\1\..................         54          0.88  88 (-0.2 lb  2.2%        04          0.9           88.2
                                                                                         IS allowance).
100,000....................  Gutted w/IS.....................         54          0.88  88,000 (-200 lb;         04          0.9       88,200
                                                                                         2.2% IS allowance).
100........................  H&G.............................         05          1.0   100.......................        05          1.0          100
100........................  H&G w/IS........................         55          0.98  98........................        05          1.0           98
100,000....................  H&G w/IS........................         55          0.98  98,000....................        05          1.0      98,000
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\1\ Means Ice and Slime.


                                                            Sablefish Sample Conversion Data
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                                                                              Current system                                 Proposed system
                                                           ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   Reported weight (lb)          Product description                                                                                       Proposed IFQ
                                                             Halibut    Conversion     Current IFQ equivalent    Halibut    Conversion      equivalent
                                                             product      factor            weight (lb)          product      factor        weight (lb)
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100......................  Whole..........................         01          1.0   100......................        01            1.0           100
100......................  Whole w/IS \1\.................         51          1.02  98.04....................        01            1.0            98
100......................  Gutted, head on................         04          0.89  112.36...................        04            0.89          112.36
100......................  Gutted, head on w/IS...........         54          0.91  109.89 (-0.22 lb;  2.2% IS
                                                                                      allowance).
100,000..................  Gutted, head on w/IS...........         54          0.91  109,890 (-222 lb;  2.2% IS
                                                                                      allowance).
100......................  Eastern cut....................         08          0.63  158.73...................        08            0.63          158.73
100......................  Eastern cut w/IS...............         58          0.65  153.85 (-1.71 lb;  3.1% IS
                                                                                      allowance).
100,000..................  Eastern cut w/IS...............         58          0.65  153,846 (-1,710 lb;  3.1% IS
                                                                                      allowance).
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\1\ IS means Ice and Slime.

    Section 679.5(l) would be reorganized and revised for clarity.
    Prior Notice of Landing. The prior notice of IFQ landing 
(Sec. 679.5(l)(1) would be revised by adding a requirement to record 
the IFQ regulatory area in which the IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish were 
harvested and by adding a clarification of exemption for submittal of 
the prior notice of landing.
    Landing Report. The landing report (Sec. 679.5(l)(2)) would be 
revised by adding requirements to debit all IFQ catch aboard a vessel 
and to record gear type reported by cardholder, whether ice and slime 
is included in the weight of fish (effective January 1, 2002), and 
whether halibut is incidental catch concurrent with legal landing of 
salmon or a legal landing of lingcod harvested with dinglebar gear. In 
addition, if the vessel operator is the Registered Buyer reporting the 
IFQ landing, the accurate weight of IFQ sablefish processed product 
obtained before the offload may be substituted for the initial accurate 
scale weight at time of offload.
    Shipment Report. The shipment report (Sec. 679.5(l)(3)) would be 
revised by adding a requirement to describe short-distance movement of 
IFQ fish when a Registered Buyer's facility is a short distance from 
where the fish were landed.
    Transshipment Authorization. Section 679.5(l)(4) would be revised 
by adding the list of required information to obtain a transshipment 
authorization).
    Vessel Clearance and Departure Report. Section 679.5(l)(5) would be 
revised by reorganizing and revising the text to show that a departure 
report (a document) is a type of vessel clearance and is issued only 
under specific conditions. A vessel clearance occurs when a vessel 
physically goes into a port to obtain prelanding written clearance of 
the vessel by a NOAA Office for Enforcement (NOFE) representative. A 
departure report clearance occurs when a vessel operator informs NOFE 
by telephone of intentions to obtain a prelanding written clearance for 
the vessel at a port in a state other than Alaska.

IFQ Cost Recovery Program

    Paragraph 679.5(l)(7) would be changed to allow electronic 
submittal of the annual register buyer/shoreside processor IFQ Buyer 
Report and of the IFQ Permit Holder Fee Submission Form and fees from 
permit holders.

Consolidated Weekly ADF&G Fish Tickets From Motherships

    Section 679.5(m) would be revised to clarify the Federal 
requirement for motherships to complete ADF&G fish tickets, detailing 
information requirements for each delivering catcher vessel as well as 
for the mothership. The deadline for operators of motherships to submit 
completed fish tickets to ADF&G would be revised from 30 days to 45 
days.

Groundfish CDQ Fisheries

    Section 679.5(n)(1)(i) would be revised to add a heading in the Q&A 
format, insert ``stationary floating processor'' and to add a sentence 
indicating that if using the SPELR to report to NMFS, a CDQ delivery 
report is not required. Section 679.5(n)(1)(ii)

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would be revised to remove the term, ``operator'' because that term 
refers to personnel aboard a vessel. Section 679.5(n)(1)(iii) would be 
revised to conform to the format and content of the revised CDQ 
delivery report.
    Section 679.5(n)(2)(i) would be revised to add a heading in the Q&A 
format and to insert ``stationary floating processor''.
    Section 679.5(n)(2)(ii) would be revised to reformat the text for 
clarity. Section 679.5(n)(2)(iii), (iv), and (v) would be revised to 
conform to the format and content of the revised CDQ catch report.

Catcher Vessel Cooperative Pollock Catch Report

    The heading for Sec. 679.5(o) would be revised to remove the 
expiration date.

Section 679.7  Prohibitions

    Section 679.7(a)(10) would be amended to add prohibitions against 
mutilation of permits and cards, inaccurate information, and false 
information. Paragraph (a)(11)(i) would be added to prohibit the use of 
a catcher vessel or catcher/processor as a tender vessel before 
offloading all groundfish harvested or processed by that vessel. 
Paragraph (a)(11)(ii) would be amended to add a prohibition against 
operating a vessel or land-based buying station without an associated 
processor.

Section 679.21  Prohibited Species Bycatch Management

    In Sec. 679.21(b)(1), the definition for ``prohibited species'' 
would be removed and placed in the definitions section (Sec. 679.2) in 
alphabetical order.

Section 679.22  Closures

    Section 679.22(a)(11)(iv)(B) would be revised to add a cross 
reference to Figure 20-Steller Sea Lion Conservation Area. Paragraph 
(b)(3)(iii)(B) would be revised to add a cross reference to Figure 19-
Shelikof Conservation Area.

Section 679.24  Gear Limitations

    Section 679.24(a)(1) currently refers to marking of longline marker 
buoys. This section would be revised to extend the requirement to 
include hook-and-line, longline pot, and pot-and-line gear. In 
paragraph (a)(1)(iii), ``vessel's registration'' number' would be 
replaced with ``vessel's ADF&G registration number''.
    Section 679.24(b)(2) refers to net-sounder devices on pelagic trawl 
gear. This requirement is obsolete and would be removed. Modern net-
sounders do not print recordings but rather provide real-time video 
images of much improved quality.
    Section 679.24(e)(1) would be amended to add a requirement that the 
operator record the appropriate bird avoidance gear code (see Table 19 
to this part) in the catcher vessel longline and pot DFL or catcher/
processor longline and pot DCPL.

Section 679.31  CDQ Reserves

    In Sec. 679.31, paragraph (d)(2) would be removed (the paragraph 
expired on December 31, 1999). Paragraph (d)(1) would be added to 
paragraph (d).

Section 679.32  Groundfish and Halibut CDQ Catch Monitoring

    Section 679.32(a)(2) would be removed due to an expired date. 
Paragraph (a)(1) would be redesignated as paragraph (a).

Section 679.40  Sablefish and Halibut QS

    New paragraphs (a)(2)(i)(C) and (D) would be added to the 
definition of ``Qualified person'' to mean a citizen of the United 
States at the time of application for QS and a corporation, 
partnership, association, or other entity that would have qualified to 
document a fishing vessel as a vessel of the United States during the 
QS qualifying years of 1988, 1989, and 1990.

Section 679.41  Transfer of Quota Shares and IFQ

    Section 679.41(i)(2), which deals with IFQ category redesignation 
for IFQ transfer, would be removed because the date of effectiveness 
expired February 24, 1997. Paragraph (i)(3) would be redesignated as 
paragraph (i)(2).

Section 679.42  Limitations on Use of QS and IFQ

    In Sec. 679.42, paragraph (c)(2) would be revised. Paragraphs 
(c)(2)(i) and (c)(2)(ii) would be added to include halibut or sablefish 
landings offshore and made into product prior to offload. Paragraph 
(c)(3) would be added to require that all IFQ catch onboard a vessel be 
debited from the IFQ permit holder's account under which the catch was 
harvested.

Classification

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required 
to respond to nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for failure to 
comply with a collection of information subject to the requirements of 
the PRA unless that collection of information displays a currently 
valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number.
    This proposed rule contains collection-of-information requirements 
subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA).
    The following requirements and estimated response times have been 
approved by OMB and are organized by their OMB control number:
    0648-0206: 5 hours for an exempted fishery progress report; 5 hours 
for an exempted fishery permit application; and 30 minutes for a High 
Seas Power Troller Salmon Permit.
    0648-0213: 35 minutes for Weekly Cumulative Mothership ADF&G Fish 
Tickets; 14 minutes for U.S. Vessel Activity Report.
    0648-0269: 1 hour for CDQ Delivery Report; and 15 minutes for CDQ 
catch report.
    0648-0316: 40 hours for an application; 40 hours for documentation 
by a distributor; 6 minutes for labeling and product tracking of a 
shipment by a vessel or processor; and 15 minutes to provide 
documentation on a vessel or processor).
    0648-0401: 30 minutes for daily completion of the SPELR and the 
estimated time to electronically submit the SPELR (30 min./day); and 5 
minutes for estimated time to print the SPELR reports.
    0648-0428: 8 hours to complete and submit the COAR.
    The following requirements are new or revised and have been 
submitted to OMB for approval:
    0648-0206: 20 minutes for the Federal Fisheries Permit/Federal 
Processor Permit Application.
    0648-0213: 17 minutes for Catcher Vessel trawl gear DFL; 28 minutes 
for Catcher Vessel longline and pot gear DFL; 31 minutes for Catcher/
processor trawl gear DCPL; 41 minutes for Catcher/processor longline 
and pot gear DCPL; 31 minutes for Shoreside processor DCPL; 31 minutes 
for Mothership DCPL; 8 minutes for Shoreside Processor Check-in/Check-
out Report; 7 minutes for Mothership or Catcher/processor Check-in/
Check-out Report; 11 minutes for Product transfer report; 17 minutes 
for Weekly Production Report; 11 minutes for Daily Production Report; 
estimated time to electronically submit the weekly production report (5 
min./report); 5 minutes to electronically submit the check-in/check-out 
report; 23 minutes for buying station report.
    0648-0272: 12 minutes for IFQ Prior notice of landing; 12 minutes 
for IFQ Landing report; 18 minutes for IFQ Shipment report; 12 minutes 
for IFQ Transshipment authorization; 12 minutes for IFQ Vessel 
clearance; 6 minutes for IFQ Departure report; 6 minutes for IFQ 
Dockside sale; 6 minutes for Administrative waiver.
    0648-0353: 15 minutes to paint each buoy with the vessel name and 
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permit number, or ADF&G registration number.
    The estimated response times shown include the time to review 
instructions, search existing data sources, gather and maintain the 
data needed, and complete and review the collection of information.
    Public comment is sought regarding whether these proposed 
collections of information are necessary for the proper performance of 
the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall 
have practical utility; the accuracy of the burden estimate; ways to 
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be 
collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the collection of 
information, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology. Send comments on 
these or any other aspects of the collection of information to NMFS and 
OMB (see ADDRESSES).
    The NMFS Alaska Region prepared an Regulatory Impact Review/Initial 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (RIR/IRFA) that describes the impact 
this proposed rule, if adopted, would have on small entities. The 
number of small entities to which the proposed rule will apply are 
identified as: 1,254 catcher vessels; 47 catcher processors; 32 onshore 
processors, 6 CDQ groups; 268 buying stations; 1,613 halibut fishing 
operations; and 92 Registered Buyers.
    This RIR/IRFA analyzes proposed amendments to regulations at 50 CFR 
part 679 that would revise R&R regulations for the Alaska groundfish 
fisheries and for the IFQ halibut and sablefish fisheries off of 
Alaska. The objectives of the proposed actions are: to clarify and 
simplify the regulations pertaining to the management of the groundfish 
fisheries and the IFQ halibut and sablefish fisheries in the waters of 
the BSAI and the GOA; to ease certain regulatory burdens to reduce the 
cost of operation for fishermen and increase compliance with 
regulations; to reduce the costs of enforcing fisheries regulations; to 
enhance the value of the pollock fisheries managed under the AFA; to 
reduce the costs of compliance with pollock reasonable and prudent 
alternatives (RPAs) for Steller sea lion protection; and to reduce the 
costs and increase the effectiveness of regulations protecting 
migratory birds identified as endangered or threatened under the 
Endangered Species Act (ESA). It provides the analyses required under 
Executive Order 12866 and the RFA.
    Eight groups of regulatory changes are identified in the analysis, 
each being independent of the other. Any one of them may be adopted in 
combination with any possible grouping of the others. Because of this, 
the RIR and the accompanying IRFA evaluate each of the eight proposals 
independently. Each of the proposals is evaluated against a ``no 
action'' alternative and the costs and benefits relative to the ``no 
action'' alternative are identified.
    1. Regulatory Housekeeping. Remove obsolete text, clarify and 
simplify existing text, and reorganize text to remove duplication. Add, 
revise, and remove definitions. Because the changes do not impose new 
responsibilities on small entities, there are no added costs.
    2. Buying Station Daily Cumulative Logbook (DCL). Remove the 
requirement to obtain, complete, and submit the DCL. Add a requirement 
to complete, maintain, and distribute a Buying Station Report (BSR). As 
with the DCL, the processors who receive fish from buying stations must 
compile data from the BSRs; unlike the DCL, processors will not be 
required to file quarterly reports with NMFS. NMFS estimates that the 
annual costs for this activity for at-sea tenders would be about $312 
per buying station per processor. The cost for 268 at-sea tenders would 
be about $83,616. This estimate assumes all tender permits are active 
and all at-sea tenders are in complete compliance. Costs for on-shore 
buying stations cannot be determined since the number of on-shore 
buying stations cannot be estimated with current data. NMFS estimates 
that its costs would be about $670 per year for preparation and 
delivery of the BSR.
    Substitution of the BSR for the DCL should benefit operators of 
buying stations by reducing their paperwork costs. It will benefit 
processors to the extent that the buying stations are their 
subsidiaries and they share in the reduced paperwork costs. NMFS 
estimates a reduction in public and private costs (a benefit) of about 
$8,700 per year. This estimate assumes all tender permits are active 
and in complete compliance with the program and does not take in to 
account the unknown number of land-based buying stations. There are no 
apparent costs to implement this proposal.
    3. Shoreside Processor Electronic Logbook Report (SPELR). Extend 
the requirement to use the SPELR for processors buying from AFA catcher 
vessels past January 16, 2001, and require shoreside processors or 
stationary floating processors that receive pollock harvested in a 
directed pollock fishery to use the SPELR. Regulations at 
Sec. 679.5(f)(3) currently require managers of shoreside processors or 
stationary floating processors, who receive groundfish deliveries from 
AFA catcher vessels, to record and submit a SPELR for each catcher 
vessel delivery and to retain printed reports for the duration of the 
fishing year. Currently, 19 firms use the SPELR system under the 
Federal AFA regulations. Two firms that are not currently using the 
SPELR are making progress in bringing the SPELR system on line. NMFS 
estimates that adoption of the SPELR requires the use of a personal 
computer with a value of about $1,000 and 1-2 weeks of staff time. The 
upper limit of this cost is estimated to be about $4,000 per firm.
    The SPELR brings three classes of benefits: (a) Reduced annual R&R 
costs for NMFS and for firms adopting the SPELR, (b) enhanced value 
from the AFA statute, and (c) reduced costs of compliance with pollock 
RPAs for Steller sea lion protection. The annual R&R costs for firms 
and NMFS can be estimated. Each firm that adopts the SPELR will have 
annual SPELR expenses, but will no longer have to file or maintain the 
WPR or DCPL. The SPELR is expected to cost $941 per year while the 
savings on the WPR and DCPL is expected to be $2,508. NMFS will incur 
an additional $133 to receive SPELR reports from a new firm, but will 
save $627 per year on WPR and DCPL paperwork. The net overall paperwork 
savings should be about $2,194 per year for each firm that adopts the 
SPELR. Since two firms are expected to adopt, the total cost is $4,388 
per year.
    The cost of adopting the SPELR system is the cost to each firm of 
acquiring a computer and converting to the data processing system and 
software used by the SPELR. These costs are estimated to be $4,000 per 
firm. Four firms not using the SPELR would have to begin using it under 
this regulation, and three of these firms are known to have already 
made significant progress toward adopting the SPELR. As noted, 19 firms 
are currently required to use the SPELR because they buy groundfish 
from AFA catcher vessels. Another two firms would be required to begin 
using the SPELR under the provisions of the proposed rule requiring 
that firms accepting deliveries of pollock from fisheries targeting 
pollock use the SPELR. On the basis of anecdotal information, 13 of 
these firms are believed to be large firms, employing or affiliated 
with firms that employ more than 500 persons. The sizes of another 
eight of these firms are not known. For the purpose of this analysis, 
these have been treated as small firms, although this may overestimate 
the numbers of small firms. Six CDQ groups will also be impacted. CDQ 
groups are considered to be small non-profit entities.

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    4. IFQ Program. Eight changes are proposed for the regulations for 
the IFQ halibut and sablefish programs.
    Weight prior to offload. Some of the vessels landing IFQ halibut 
and IFQ sablefish are catcher/processors that freeze and package IFQ 
halibut and sablefish on board before delivery. In many cases, the 
vessel operator acts as an IFQ Registered Buyer taking possession of 
the IFQ fish and making the landing report. These operations often 
calculate the weight of product that they produce at the time of 
production. However, current regulations at Sec. 679.5(l)(2)(vi) 
require that Registered Buyers, taking possession of IFQ fish at 
landing, record the product code and initial accurate scale weight made 
at the time offloading commences for IFQ species sold and retained. 
Frozen product requires a second weighing of the fish. This regulatory 
change would redesignate Sec. 679.5(1)(2)(vi)(J) as 
Sec. 679.5(1)(2)(vi)(J)(1) and add a new paragraph (l)(2)(vi)(J)(2) to 
allow a vessel operator, if he or she is a Registered Buyer reporting 
the IFQ landing, to substitute the ``accurate weight of IFQ sablefish 
processed product obtained before the offload'' for the ``initial 
accurate weight at time of offload.'' NOFE would still be able to 
monitor the offload and weigh the product if necessary for the purpose 
of auditing under other regulations.
    Debit all catch to IFQ account; Vessel operator responsible for 
landing. Regulatory changes would make it clear that fishermen who set 
aside part of their IFQ catch for home consumption would be required to 
debit that harvest against their IFQ account; a vessel operator has an 
obligation to offload all IFQ fish to a Registered Buyer. A new 
Sec. 679.5(l)(2)(i)(C) would be added to clarify that the weight of any 
halibut or sablefish offshore landings made by a catcher/processor into 
product (frozen) prior to offload at the landing site must be properly 
debited from the IFQ permit holder's account under which the catch was 
harvested. These regulatory changes would not add new requirements to 
the IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish program but would only clarify 
existing regulations. If this clarification reduced efforts to by-pass 
the reporting requirements, or made it easier to prosecute those 
requirements, it would reduce program costs. Because the requirement 
does not impose new responsibilities on fishermen, it does not add to 
their costs.
    Regulatory area on prior notice of IFQ landing report. This change 
would amend Sec. 679.5(l)(1)(iii) to add a question to the Prior Notice 
of IFQ Landing Report; fishermen would be required to report on the IFQ 
regulatory area within which IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish were 
harvested. The benefit of the regulation would be the improved 
compliance with IFQ regulations. The cost would be the burden of 
answering the additional question when the prior notice of landing was 
made. This cost would be very small since the information is already 
known when the Prior Notice of IFQ Landing is made. In 2000, 10,279 
prior notices of landing were submitted. If the answer to the question 
added 30 seconds to each notice, the total additional time would have 
been 86 hours. At $20 per hour (the pay for a Federal GS-7 in Alaska, 
including COLA), the total cost would have valued at about $1,700.
    IFQ landing report. Additional information would be collected in 
the landings reports filled out by Registered Buyers that would reduce 
the costs of monitoring landings made under the exemption. This 
information would include the gear type used to harvest the fish and 
regardless of whether the IFQ fish were landed concurrently with salmon 
or dinglebar lingcod.
    The benefits from these proposed changes would be increased 
flexibility and consequent reduced operating costs for dinglebar 
lingcod fishermen who hold halibut QS, and in addition, an improved 
ability by NMFS to target its enforcement assets. The cost to 
registered buyers of collecting and reporting the additional 
information would be small.
    Registered buyers complete landings reports using automated 
terminals. These terminals lead the buyers through a series of question 
prompts. The change would require the addition to prompts for the gear 
type used in the landing and for information on whether or not salmon 
or lingcod taken with dinglebar gear was landed concurrently with the 
IFQ fish. This information should be known to or readily available to 
the registered buyer. In 2000, about 10,057 landings reports were 
submitted. At 1 minute for the two additional questions, the total 
additional time required would have been about 168 hours. At $20 per 
hour (the pay for a Federal GS-7 in Alaska, including COLA), the total 
cost would have valued at about $3,400.
    IFQ shipment report. Regulations at Sec. 679.5(l)(3) would be 
amended to add a requirement to the IFQ Shipment Report to allow short-
distance movement of IFQ fish accompanied by an ATM landing receipt by 
a Registered Buyer to his or her processing plant. Currently Registered 
Buyers are required to complete and file an IFQ shipment report before 
they move fish away from the place where they are landed. Many firms, 
whose plants are located away from landing places, are inconvenienced 
by the need to complete the form before moving the fish from the place 
where they were landed to the place where they will be processed. This 
regulatory change would reduce the costs for this class of Registered 
Buyer. NOFE would still receive a landing report from the landing 
place; the IFQ shipment report would still be required from the 
Registered Buyer before the buyer disposed of the fish to other 
parties. The most important use for Shipment Reports is to provide the 
ability to audit Registered Buyers' landings by monitoring movements of 
fish being moved in the chain of possession from the Registered Buyer. 
There are no costs associated with this regulatory change and there 
will be cost savings to Registered Buyers whose plants are located at a 
distance from landings places.
    IFQ transshipment authorization. Regulations at Sec. 679.5(l)(4) 
would be amended to revise the regulatory text describing the IFQ 
Transshipment Authorization by adding a list of required information to 
obtain a transshipment authorization. Vessel operators transshipping 
(from one vessel to another) IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish are required 
to obtain a Transshipment Authorization at least 24 hours before the 
transshipment. This gives NOFE time to decide whether or not to monitor 
the transshipments, plan resources, and arrange the logistics for 
monitoring the transshipment. This change is principally needed to 
monitor the offloading of freezer longliners to tramp freighters. NOFE 
routinely collects certain information from persons requesting the 
authorization to find out when and where the transshipment will occur 
and how long it might take. This change will provide a basis in 
regulation for the specific information collected when an authorization 
is requested. This should not increase the costs for fishing operations 
or for the operations taking possession of the fish at sea since it 
would not affect the requirement for authorizations. It may reduce 
enforcement costs by clarifying the types of information that are 
required when an authorization is requested.
    IFQ vessel clearance report and the IFQ departure report. This 
proposed change will make the vessel clearance and departure report 
regulations clearer and may reduce the amount of time it takes to find, 
read and interpret them. The substantive part of the change involves 
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report requirement to prevent IFQ fishing after the report is filed. 
This change clarifies the intent of the regulation that departure 
reports be filed after IFQ fishing has finished. While almost all 
departure reports are believed to have been filed after fishing has 
been concluded, at least one in the last 2 years was not. The intent is 
to close this loophole. The benefit will be an enhanced ability to 
enforce the IFQ program. There is no cost to fishermen from this change 
because a departure report can be filed as easily after fishing is 
concluded as before it is concluded.
    5. Product Transfer Report (PTR). Regulations at Sec. 679.5(g) 
currently require the operators of motherships, catcher/processors, or 
managers of shoreside processors or stationary floating processors to 
record each transfer of groundfish product (including unprocessed fish) 
or donated prohibited species, on a PTR. An important enforcement 
document, the PTR provides the principal information for the movement 
of volumes of groundfish into and out of the facilities of a processor 
and provides a check on buyer purchase reports. Because of its 
importance, the PTR is used with audits and by physical inspection of 
product.
    This change would provide processors more flexibility in adapting 
their responses to their working procedures and may result in some 
private sector time savings. If the regulation change reduces the time 
taken to fill out the PTRs by 10 percent, it would produce a private 
sector cost savings of about $1,568 per year. There are no 
implementation or other costs.
    NMFS estimates that 171 processors (110 catcher/processors, 3 
motherships, and 58 shoreside processors or stationary floating 
processors) must currently file a PTR for each transfer of product an 
average of 25 times a year generating 4,275 PTRs per year. The 
estimated time requirement for a PTR is 11 minutes. Total time devoted 
to PTRs is estimated to be 784 hours a year. NMFS estimates that the 
total cost of PTR preparation is $15,675 (this does not include costs 
of submittal to NMFS by FAX).
    Forty-seven catcher/processors and 32 shoreside processors are 
assumed to be small entities. The remaining operations are assumed to 
be large entities. Six CDQ groups would also be impacted. CDQ groups 
are considered to be small non-profit entities. The new PTR format 
would reduce the costs to NOAA and USCG enforcement efforts and would 
allow for more effective enforcement of product transfer rules.
    6. Marking of Gear. The proposed rule would increase the financial 
costs to a few small entities by extending requirements to mark 
identification information on marker buoys that currently apply only to 
longline gear to include also hook-and-line, longline pot, and pot-and-
line gear. Most fishermen have their marker buoys properly identified 
and would not be adversely affected by this regulation. Fishermen 
affected by this regulation would incur the costs of marking their own 
marker buoys and legally would not be able to use another fisherman's 
marker buoys. State regulations (5 AAC 28.050) currently require crab 
and groundfish pots to carry the ADF&G registration number of the 
vessel operating the gear. Since many Pacific cod fishermen already 
participate in State groundfish and crab fisheries, they would already 
be subject to this requirement. The regulation extends the marker buoy 
requirement to vessels using pot gear to fish for groundfish. In 1999, 
254 catcher-vessels caught groundfish with pot gear off of Alaska; 13 
catcher-processors also used pot gear. In 1999, no pot vessels had 
Alaska groundfish landings with ex-vessel or product value over 
$3,000,000. Six CDQ groups will also be impacted. CDQ groups are 
considered to be small non-profit entities. Marking of marker buoys 
reduces the costs to NOAA and USCG enforcement efforts and allows for 
more effective enforcement of gear rules.
    7. Seabird Avoidance Gear. The proposed rule would add a 
requirement for operators of catcher vessels over 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA 
and catcher/processors using hook-and-line gear to record in the 
logbook the type of bird avoidance gear used on the vessel. A 
regulation currently exists at Sec. 679.24(e) that requires bird 
avoidance gear be used. This proposed regulation merely makes it a 
requirement to record the code in the logbook that describes the type 
of gear used. NMFS estimates that it would take approximately 1 minute 
per haul for a vessel operator to collect information on what type of 
avoidance gear is being used and to enter the information into the log. 
Based on 19,245 hauls, the cost in time to the entire hook-and-line 
fleet would be approximately 321 hours per year. Evaluating this time 
at a cost of $20/hour (the average wages and benefits for a Federal GS-
7 employee in Alaska, including COLA), the cost imposed would be $6,415 
per year.
    A copy of this analysis is available from NMFS (see ADDRESSES).
    This proposed rule has been determined to be significant for 
purposes of Executive Order 12866.

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 679

    Alaska, Fisheries, Recordkeeping and reporting requirements.

    Dated: July 20, 2001.
John Oliver,
Acting Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, 50 CFR part 679 is 
proposed to be amended as follows:

PART 679--FISHERIES OF THE EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE OFF ALASKA

    1. The authority citation for 50 CFR part 679 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq., 1801 et seq., and 3631 et seq.

    2. In Sec. 679.2 the definitions for ``Bycatch species,'' ``CDQ 
delivery number,'' ``Gear deployment,'' ``Gear retrieval,'' and 
``Sablefish'' are removed; the definitions for ``Active/inactive 
periods,'' ``Ancillary product,'' the introductory text of ``Area/
species endorsement,'' ``paragraph (1)(v) of Fishing trip,'' ``Forage 
fish,'' ``Groundfish,'' ``Logbook,'' ``Person,'' ``Primary product,'' 
``Reprocessed or rehandled product,'' and ``Set,'' are revised; the 
definitions for ``Agent,'' ``Associated processor,'' ``Bycatch or 
bycatch species,'' ``Endorsement,'' ``Experimental fishery,'' ``Gear,'' 
``Gear deployment (or to set gear),'' ``Gear retrieval (or to haul 
gear),'' ``Harvest zone codes,'' ``Incidental catch or incidental 
species,'' ``Product transfer report (PTR),'' ``Prohibited species,'' 
``Representative,'' ``Sablefish (black cod),'' ``Seabird avoidance 
gear,'' ``Shoreside processor electronic logbook report (SPELR),'' 
``Tagged halibut or sablefish,'' and ``Weekly production report (WPR)'' 
are added to read as follows:


Sec. 679.2  Definitions.

* * * * *
    Active/inactive periods. (see Sec. 679.5(a)(7)(i)).
* * * * *
    Agent. (1) For purposes of permits issued under Sec. 679.4, means a 
person appointed and maintained within the United States who may apply 
for permits and may otherwise act on behalf of the owner, operator, and 
manager of a catcher vessel, catcher/processor, mothership, shoreside 
processor, stationary floating processor, buying station, or on behalf 
of the IFQ registered buyer.
    (2) For purposes of groundfish product distribution under 
Sec. 679.5(g), means a buyer, distributor, or shipper but not a buying 
station, who may

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receive and distribute groundfish on behalf of the owner, operator, and 
manager of a catcher/processor, mothership, shoreside processor, or 
stationary floating processor.
    (3) For purposes of IFQ recordkeeping and reporting under 
Sec. 679.5(l), means a person who on behalf of the Registered Buyer may 
submit IFQ reports.
* * * * *
    Ancillary product (see Table 1 to this part).
* * * * *
    Area/species endorsement means (for purposes of LLP) a designation 
on a license that authorizes a license holder to deploy a vessel to 
conduct directed fishing for the designated crab species in Federal 
waters in the designated area (see Figures 16 and 17 to this part). 
Area/species endorsements for crab species licenses are as follows:
* * * * *
    Associated processor means, a federally permitted mothership, 
shoreside processor, or stationary floating processor that has a 
contract or agreement with a buying station to conduct groundfish 
buying station activities for that processor.
* * * * *
    Bycatch or bycatch species means fish caught and released while 
targeting the same species.
* * * * *
    Endorsement. (1) (See area endorsement for purposes of the 
groundfish LLP permits);
    (2) (See area/species endorsement for purposes of the crab LLP 
permits); and
    (3) (See Sec. 679.4(g)(3)(ii) area endorsements for purposes of the 
scallop permit).
    Experimental fishery (see Exempted fishery, Sec. 679.6).
* * * * *
    Fishing trip means:
    (1) * * *
    (v) The end of a weekly reporting period (except a catcher vessel), 
whichever comes first.
* * * * *
    Forage fish (see Table 2 to this part).
* * * * *
    Gear (see the definition for Authorized fishing gear of this 
section).
    Gear deployment (or to set gear) means:
    (1) Position of gear deployment (lat. and long.):
    (i) For trawl gear. The position where the trawl gear reaches the 
fishing level and begins to fish.
    (ii) For hook-and-line gear. The beginning position of a set of 
hook-and-line gear.
    (iii) For jig or troll gear. The position where the jig or troll 
gear enters the water.
    (iv) For pot gear. The position of the first pot in a string of 
pots.
    (2) Time of gear deployment (A.l.t.):
    (i) For trawl gear. The time when the trawl gear reaches the 
fishing level and begins to fish.
    (ii) For hook-and-line gear. The time when the first hook-and-line 
gear of a set is deployed.
    (iii) For jig or troll gear. The time when jig or troll gear enters 
the water.
    (iv) For pot gear. The time when the first pot in a string of pots 
is deployed.
    Gear retrieval (or to haul gear) means: (1) Position of gear 
retrieval (lat. and long.):
    (i) For trawl gear. The position where retrieval of trawl gear 
cable commences.
    (ii) For hook-and-line gear. The position where the last hook-and-
line gear of a set leaves the water, regardless of where the majority 
of the set took place.
    (iii) For jig or troll gear. The position where the jig or troll 
gear leaves the water.
    (iv) For pot gear. The position where the last pot of a set is 
retrieved, regardless of where the majority of the set took place.
    (2) Time of gear retrieval (A.l.t.):
    (i) For trawl gear. The time when retrieval of trawl gear cable 
commences.
    (ii) For hook-and-line gear. The time when the last hook-and-line 
gear of a set leaves the water.
    (iii) For jig or troll gear. The time when the jig or troll gear 
leaves the water.
    (iv) For pot gear. The time when the last pot of a set is 
retrieved.
    Groundfish means (1) FMP species as listed in Table 2 to this part.
    (2) Target species and the ``other species'' category, specified 
annually pursuant to Sec. 679.20(a)(2) (See also the definitions for: 
License limitation groundfish; CDQ species; and IR/IU species of this 
section).
* * * * *
    Harvest zone codes (see Table 8 to this part).
* * * * *
    Incidental catch or incidental species means fish caught while 
targeting on some other species, but does not include discard of fish 
that were released or returned to the sea, whether or not such fish are 
brought fully on board a fishing vessel. An incidental catch is any 
species or species group for which a maximum retainable amount is 
calculated and is expressed as a percentage of the weight of the total 
fish on board (see Tables 10 and 11 to this part).
* * * * *
    Logbook means Daily Cumulative Production Logbook (DCPL) or Daily 
Fishing Logbook (DFL) required by Sec. 679.5.
* * * * *
    Person means any individual (whether or not a citizen or national 
of the United States), any corporation, partnership, association, or 
other entity (whether or not organized, or existing under the laws of 
any state), and any Federal, state, local, or foreign government or any 
entity of any such aforementioned governments.
* * * * *
    Primary product (see Table 1 to this part).
* * * * *
    Product transfer report (PTR) (see Sec. 679.5(g)).
    Prohibited species means any of the species of Pacific salmon 
(Oncorhynchus spp.), steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), Pacific 
halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis), Pacific herring (Clupea harengus 
pallasi), king crab, and Tanner crab, caught by a vessel regulated 
under this part while fishing for groundfish in the BSAI or GOA, unless 
retention is authorized by other applicable laws, including the annual 
management measures published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Sec. 300.62 of this title.
* * * * *
    Representative (see Sec. 679.5(b)).
    Reprocessed or rehandled product (see Table 1 to this part).
* * * * *
    Sablefish (black cod) means Anoplopoma fimbria. (See also IFQ 
sablefish; fixed gear sablefish at Sec. 679.31(b); and sablefish as a 
prohibited species at Sec. 679.24(c)(2)(ii)).
* * * * *
    Seabird avoidance gear (see Sec. 679.24(e), Sec. 679.42(b)(2), and 
Table 19 to this part).
    Set means a string of longline gear, a string of pots, or a group 
of pots with individual pots deployed and retrieved in the water in a 
similar location with similar soak time. In the case of pot gear, when 
the pots in a string are hauled more than once in the same position, a 
new set is created each time the string is retrieved and re-deployed. A 
set includes a test set, unsuccessful harvest, or when gear is not 
working and is pulled in, even if no fish are harvested.
* * * * *

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    Shoreside processor electronic logbook report (SPELR) (see 
Sec. 679.5(d)).
* * * * *
    Tagged halibut or sablefish (see Sec. 679.40(g)).
* * * * *
    Weekly production report (WPR) (see Sec. 679.5(i)).
* * * * *
    3. In Sec. 679.4 paragraphs (a)(1) through (a)(6) are redesignated 
as paragraphs (a)(3) through (a)(8) respectively; paragraph (a) 
introductory text, paragraphs (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3)(v), (b)(3)(iii), 
and (b)(3)(iv) are added; and paragraph (a) heading, newly redesignated 
(a)(3) heading, newly redesignated paragraph (a)(3)(iii), paragraphs 
(b)(3)(ii), (b)(4)(ii), (b)(5), (d) heading, (d)(2), the heading of 
paragraph (d)(3), and paragraphs (d)(3)(i)(A), (f)(2), and (f)(4)(ii) 
are revised to read as follows:


Sec. 679.4  Permits.

    (a) Requirements. Only persons who are U.S. citizens are authorized 
to receive or hold permits under this section, with the exception that 
an IFQ card issued to an individual person designated by a QS or IFQ 
permit holder as a master employed to fish his/her IFQ need not be held 
by a U.S. citizen.
    (1) What permits are available? Various types of permits are issued 
for programs codified at 50 CFR part 679. These permits are listed in 
the following table. The date of effectiveness for each permit is given 
along with certain reference paragraphs for further information.

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                                             Permit is in effect from issue date through the end
        If program permit type is:                                   of:                                   See paragraphs for more  information:
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(i) IFQ:
    (A) Registered Buyer permit...........  Specified fishing year...............................  Sec.  679.4(d)(2)
    (B) Halibut & sablefish permits.......  Specified fishing year...............................  Sec.  679.4(d)(3)(i)(B)
    (C) Halibut & sablefish cards.........  Specified fishing year...............................  Sec.  679.4(d)(3)(i)(C)
(ii) CDQ Halibut:
    Halibut permit and Halibut card.......  Specified fishing year...............................  Sec.  679.32(f)
(iii) AFA:
    (A) Catcher/processor permit..........  12/31/04.............................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
    (B) Catcher vessel permit.............  12/31/04.............................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
    (C) Mothership permit.................  12/31/04.............................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
    (D) Inshore processor permit..........  12/31/04.............................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
    (E) Inshore cooperative permit........  Calendar year........................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
    (F) Replacement vessel permit.........  Takes dates of replaced vessel's permit..............  Sec.  679.4(f)
(iv) Groundfish:
    (A) Federal fisheries permit..........  3 years..............................................  Sec.  679.4(b)
    (B) Federal processor permit..........  3 years..............................................  Sec.  679.4(f)
(v) High seas salmon permit...............  Indefinite...........................................  Sec.  679.4(h)
(vi) High Seas Fishing Compliance Act       5 years..............................................  Sec.  300.10 of this title
 (HSFCA) permit.
(vii) License Limitation Program (LLP);     Specified fishing year or interim (active until        Sec.  679.4(k)
 Groundfish license and Crab license.        further notice).
(viii) Exempted fisheries permits.........  1 year or less.......................................  Sec.  679.6
(ix) Research permits.....................  1 year or less.......................................  Sec.  600.745(a) of this chapter
(x) Prohibited species donation program     Salmon: 3 years halibut: through 12/31/00............  Sec.  679.26
 permits.
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    (2) Permit and logbook required by participant and fishery. For the 
various types of permits issued, different recordkeeping and reporting 
requirements are shown in the following table, based on type of 
participant and fishery in which one participates.

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         Type of participant                          Fishery                        Applicable logbook type              Federal permits required
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(i) Catcher Vessels greater than 60   Groundfish and/or IFQ or CDQ Pacific    CV longline and pot DFL.............  Federal fisheries permit, groundfish
 ft LOA using longline or pot gear.    halibut.                                                                      LLP permit, if IFQ fishing:
                                                                                                                      (A) IFQ permit & card.
                                                                                                                      (B) IFQ Registered Buyer permit
                                                                                                                     (if applicable).
                                                                                                                      (C) If CDQ halibut fishing: CDQ
                                                                                                                     halibut permit & card.
(ii) Catcher Vessels greater than 60  Groundfish............................  CV trawl DFL........................  Federal Fisheries Permit Groundfish
 ft LOA using trawl gear.                                                                                            LLP Permit AFA permit.
(iii) Catcher/processor using         Groundfish and/or IFQ or CDQ Pacific    C/P longline and pot DCPL...........  Federal fisheries permit groundfish
 longline or pot gear.                 halibut.                                                                      LLP permit if IFQ fishing:
                                                                                                                      (A) IFQ permit & card.
                                                                                                                      (B) IFQ Registered Buyer permit
                                                                                                                     (if applicable).
                                                                                                                      (C) If CDQ halibut fishing: CDQ
                                                                                                                     halibut permit & card.
(iv) Catcher/processor using trawl    Groundfish............................  C/P trawl DCPL......................  Federal Fisheries Permit
 gear.                                                                                                              Groundfish LLP Permit
                                                                                                                    AFA permit.
(v) Catcher vessel or catcher/        Scallops..............................  N/A.................................  Scallop LLP permit
 processor.                                                                                                         Federal Fisheries Permit (if retain
                                                                                                                     any groundfish).
(vi) Catcher vessel or catcher/       Crab..................................  N/A.................................  Crab LLP permit
 processor.                                                                                                         Federal Fisheries Permit (if retain
                                                                                                                     any groundfish, including bait).
(vii) Mothership....................  Groundfish............................  MS DCPL.............................  Federal Fisheries Permit
                                                                                                                    AFA permit.

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(viii) Shoreside processor or         Groundfish............................  SS DCPL or SPELR....................  Federal Processor Permit
 stationary floating processor.                                                                                     AFA permit
                                                                                                                    IFQ Registered Buyer permit (if
                                                                                                                     receive IFQ or CDQ halibut).
(ix) Tender vessel or land-based      Groundfish............................  N/A.................................  Federal fisheries permit (if tender
 buying station.                                                                                                     vessel).
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    (3) How do you obtain a permit? * * *
    (iii) Complete a separate application for each vessel or processor, 
and retain a copy of each completed application.
* * * * *
    (v) All permits are issued free of charge.
* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (ii) A Federal fisheries permit is issued to a vessel to function 
as a support vessel or as any combination of the other four categories 
(catcher vessel, catcher/processor, mothership, tender vessel).
    (iii) A vessel permitted as a catcher/processor, catcher vessel, 
mothership, or tender vessel also may conduct all operations authorized 
for a support vessel.
    (iv) A vessel permitted as a support vessel may not conduct 
activities as a catcher vessel, catcher/processor, mothership, and/or 
tender vessel.
    (4) * * *
    (ii) A Federal fisheries permit is surrendered when the original 
permit is submitted to and received by the Program Administrator, RAM 
Program, Juneau, AK.
* * * * *
    (5) How do I obtain a Federal fisheries permit? To obtain a Federal 
fisheries permit, the owner must complete a Federal fisheries permit 
application and provide the following information for each vessel to be 
permitted:
    (i) Permit application information. Indicate whether application is 
for a new or amended Federal fisheries permit and if revision, enter 
the current Federal fisheries permit number.
    (ii) Owner information. Indicate the name(s), permanent business 
mailing address, business telephone number, business FAX number, and 
business e-mail address of the owner; and the name of any person or 
company (other than the owner) that manages the operations of the 
vessel.
    (iii) Vessel information. Indicate the vessel name and homeport 
(city and state); U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) documentation number; the 
ADF&G vessel registration number; ADF&G processor code; vessel's LOA 
(ft), registered length (ft), gross tonnage, net tonnage, and shaft 
horsepower; whether this is a vessel of the United States; and whether 
this vessel will be used as a stationary floating processor.
    (iv) Federal fisheries permit information. Indicate area of 
operation you request; if a catcher/processor or a catcher vessel, the 
gear types used for groundfish fishing; if a mothership or catcher/
processor operating in the GOA, choose inshore or offshore component.
* * * * *
    (d) IFQ permits.* * *
    (2) Registered buyer permit. A Registered buyer permit is required 
of:
    (i) Any person who receives IFQ halibut, CDQ halibut or IFQ 
sablefish from the person(s) who harvested the fish;
    (ii) Any person who harvests IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish and 
transfers such fish:
    (A) In a dockside sale;
    (B) Outside of an IFQ regulatory area; or
    (C) Outside the State of Alaska.
    (iii) A vessel operator who obtains a vessel clearance (see 
Sec. 679.5(l)(5)(iv)).
    (3) How do I obtain an IFQ permit, IFQ card, or Registered Buyer 
Permit? (i) IFQ permits and cards--(A) Issuance. The Regional 
Administrator will renew IFQ permits and cards annually or at other 
times as needed to accommodate transfers, revocations, appeals 
resolution, and other changes in QS or IFQ holdings, and designation of 
masters under Sec. 679.42.
* * * * *
    (f) * * *
    (2) How do I obtain a Federal processor permit? To obtain a Federal 
processor permit, the owner must complete a Federal processor permit 
application and provide the following information for each shoreside 
processor and stationary floating processor to be permitted:
    (i) Permit application information. Indicate whether application is 
for a new or amended Federal processor permit and if a revision, the 
current Federal processor permit number.
    (ii) Owner information. Indicate the name(s), permanent business 
mailing address, business telephone number, business FAX number, and 
business e-mail address of the owner; and the name of any person or 
company (other than the owner) who manages the operations of the 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor.
    (iii) Stationary floating processor information. Indicate the 
vessel name and homeport (city and state); USCG documentation number; 
ADF&G vessel registration number; ADF&G processor code; the vessel's 
LOA (ft) and registered length (ft), gross tonnage, net tonnage and 
shaft horsepower; whether this is a vessel of the United States; and 
whether this vessel will be used as a stationary floating processor.
    (iv) Shoreside processor information. Indicate the shoreside 
processor's name; name and physical location of facility or plant at 
which the shoreside processor is operating (street, city, state, zip 
code); whether the shoreside processor is replacing a previous 
processor at this facility; and if yes, name of previous processor; 
whether there are multiple processors at this facility; whether the 
owner named in paragraph (f)(2)(ii) of this section owns this facility; 
shoreside processor ADF&G Processor Code, business telephone number, 
FAX number, and e-mail address.
    (v) Signature. The owner or agent of the owner of the shoreside 
processor or stationary floating processor must sign and date the 
application. If the owner is a company, the agent of the owner must 
sign and date the application.
* * * * *
    (4) * * *
    (ii) A Federal processor permit is surrendered when the original 
permit is submitted to and received by the Program Administrator, RAM 
Program, Juneau, AK.
* * * * *
    4. Section 679.5 is amended by revising paragraph (a) through (k), 
(l)(1) through (6), (l)(7)(i)(D) introductory text, (m) through (o), 
and adding paragraph (p) to read as follows:


Sec. 679.5    Recordkeeping and reporting.

    (a) General requirements--(1) Applicability--(i) Who must comply 
with recordkeeping and reporting requirements? Except as provided in 
paragraphs (a)(1)(iii) and (iv) of this section, the owner, operator, 
or manager of the following participants must

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comply with the recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this 
section:
    (A) Any catcher vessel, mothership, catcher/processor, or tender 
vessel, 5 net tons or larger, that is required to have a Federal 
fisheries permit under Sec. 679.4.
    (B) Any shoreside processor, stationary floating processor, 
mothership, or buying station that receives groundfish from vessels 
issued a Federal fisheries permit under Sec. 679.4.
    (C) Any buying station that receives or delivers groundfish in 
association with a mothership issued a Federal fisheries permit under 
Sec. 679.4(b) or with a shoreside processor or stationary floating 
processor issued a Federal processor permit under Sec. 679.4(f).
    (D) Any shoreside processor or stationary floating processor that 
is required to have a Federal processor permit under Sec. 679.4.
    (E) For purposes of this section, ``operator or manager'' means 
``the operator of a catcher/processor or mothership, the manager of a 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, or the operator 
or manager of a buying station.''
    (ii) What fish need to be recorded and reported? A shoreside 
processor, stationary floating processor, mothership, or buying station 
subject to recordkeeping and reporting requirements must report all 
groundfish and prohibited species received, including:
    (A) Fish received from vessels not required to have a federal 
fisheries permit.
    (B) Fish received under contract for handling or processing for 
another processor.
    (iii) Who is exempt from recordkeeping and reporting requirements? 
(A) Catcher vessels less than 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA. A catcher vessel less 
than 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA is not required to comply with recordkeeping 
and reporting requirements contained in paragraphs (a) through (k) of 
this section.
    (B) Catcher vessels that take groundfish in crab pot gear for use 
as crab bait on that vessel. (1) Owners or operators of catcher vessels 
who, during open crab season, take groundfish in crab pot gear for use 
as crab bait on board their vessels, and the bait is neither 
transferred nor sold, are exempt from Federal recordkeeping and 
reporting requirements contained in paragraphs (a) through (j) of this 
section. This exemption does not apply to fishermen who:
    (i) Catch groundfish for bait during an open crab season and sell 
that groundfish or transfer it to another vessel, or
    (ii) Participate in a directed fishery for groundfish using any 
gear type during periods that are outside an open crab season for use 
as crab bait on board their vessel.
    (2) No groundfish species listed by NMFS as ``prohibited'' in a 
management or regulatory area may be taken in that area for use as 
bait.
    (iv) Who needs to use the combined groundfish/IFQ logbook?
    (A) Any catcher vessel 60 ft (18.3 m) or greater LOA or catcher/
processor, that participates in an IFQ sablefish fishery, IFQ halibut 
fishery, or CDQ halibut fishery and that retains any groundfish from 
the GOA or BSAI, must use a combined groundfish/IFQ logbook (catcher 
vessel or catcher/processor longline and pot gear logbook) to record 
all IFQ, CDQ halibut and groundfish.
    (B) Any catcher vessel 60 ft (18.3 m) or greater LOA or catcher/
processor that is using longline or pot gear in the groundfish 
fisheries of the GOA or BSAI must use a combined groundfish/IFQ logbook 
(catcher vessel or catcher/processor longline and pot gear logbook) to 
record all IFQ, CDQ halibut and groundfish.
    (2) Responsibility. (i) The owner of a catcher vessel, catcher/
processor, mothership, or buying station receiving from a catcher 
vessel and delivering to a mothership, a shoreside processor, a 
stationary floating processor, or buying station receiving from a 
catcher vessel and delivering to a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor:
    (A) Is responsible for complying with the applicable recordkeeping 
and reporting requirements of this section.
    (B) Must ensure that the operator, manager, or representative (see 
paragraph (b) of this section) complies with the applicable 
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this section.
    (ii) The signature of the owner, operator, or manager on the DFL or 
DCPL is verification of acceptance of the responsibility required in 
paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section.
    (iii) The operator or manager of a buying station must operate with 
an associated mothership, shoreside processor, or stationary floating 
processor before receiving groundfish.
    (3) Groundfish logbooks and forms. (i) The Regional Administrator 
will prescribe and provide groundfish logbooks and forms required under 
this section for a catcher vessel 60 ft (18.3 m) or greater LOA, a 
catcher/processor, a mothership, a shoreside processor, a stationary 
floating processor, and a buying station (see Table 9 to this part).
    (ii) The operator or manager must use the current edition of the 
logbooks and forms or obtain approval from the Regional Administrator 
to use current electronic versions of the logbooks and forms.
    (4) Shoreside processor electronic logbook report (SPELR). The 
manager of a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor 
receiving groundfish from AFA catcher vessels or receiving pollock 
harvested in a directed pollock fishery is required to use SPELR or 
NMFS-approved software described at paragraph (e) of this section to 
report every delivery from all catcher vessels and is required to 
maintain the SPELR and printed reports as described at paragraph (f) of 
this section. The owner or manager of a shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor that is not required to use SPELR under 
paragraph (e) of this section may use, upon approval by the Regional 
Administrator, SPELR or NMFS-approved software in lieu of the shoreside 
processor DCPL and shoreside processor WPR.
    (5) Participant identification information. The operator or manager 
must record on all required records, reports, and logbooks, as 
appropriate:
    (i) Name and signature. Name and signature of operator or manager.
    (ii) Catcher vessel. If a catcher vessel, the name as displayed in 
official documentation, Federal fisheries permit number and ADF&G 
vessel registration number.
    (iii) Shoreside processor or stationary floating processor. If a 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, the processor 
name as displayed in official documentation, ADF&G processor code, and 
Federal processor permit number. If a shoreside processor, the 
geographic location of plant.
    (iv) Mothership or catcher/processor. If a mothership or catcher/
processor, the name as displayed in official documentation, ADF&G 
processor code and Federal fisheries permit number.
    (v) Buying station. If a buying station, the name as displayed in 
official documentation; ADF&G vessel registration number (if a vessel) 
or vehicle registration number (if a vehicle); name, ADF&G processor 
code, and Federal fisheries permit number of the associated mothership, 
or name, geographic location of plant, ADF&G processor code, and 
Federal processor permit number of the associated shoreside processor 
or stationary floating processor to which groundfish deliveries were 
made.
    (6) Maintenance of records. The operator or manager must:

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    (i) Maintain in English all records, reports, and logbooks in a 
legible, timely, and accurate manner; if handwritten, in indelible ink; 
if computer-generated, in a printed paper copy; and based on A.l.t.
    (ii) Account for each day of the fishing year, January 1 through 
December 31, in the DFL or DCPL. Unless the appropriate box is checked 
to indicate an active period-no fishing or inactive period, records are 
assumed to be for an active period. Record the first day of the fishing 
year, January 1, on the first page of the DFL or DCPL. Record time 
periods consecutively in the logbook.
    (A) If a vessel owner or operator is granted reinstatement of a 
Federal fisheries permit after having surrendered it within the same 
fishing year, recordkeeping and reporting requirements as defined in 
this section must be continuous throughout that year, without 
interruption of records.
    (B) If a shoreside processor owner or manager is granted 
reinstatement of a Federal processor permit after having surrendered it 
within the same fishing year, recordkeeping and reporting requirements 
as defined in this section must be continuous throughout that year, 
without interruption of records.
    (C) If inactive due to surrender of a Federal fisheries or 
processor permit, the operator or manager must mark the inactive box, 
write ``surrender of permit,'' and follow complete instructions for 
recording an inactive period.
    (iii) Record in the appropriate report, form, and logbook, when 
applicable, the date of activity and type of participant as presented 
in the following table:
    (A) Date of activity, as month-day-year.

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            Date of                         If a\1\               Means the date when             In the
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(1) Delivery..................  (i) CV........................  Delivery of harvest was  DFL
                                                                 completed.
                               ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                (ii) SS, SFP, MS..............  Delivery of harvest was  DCPL
                                                                 completed.
                               ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                (iii) BS......................  Delivery of harvest was  BSR
                                                                 completed.
-------------------------------
(2) Landing...................  SS, SFP.......................  Sorting and weighing of  DCPL
                                                                 a delivery by species
                                                                 was completed.
-------------------------------
(3) Production................  SS, SFP.......................  Production was
                                                                 completed.
-------------------------------
(4) Discard or disposition....  (i) CV using longline or pot    Discard or disposition   DFL
                                 gear.                           occurred.
                               ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                (ii) SS, SFP, MS..............  Discard or disposition   DCPL
                                                                 occurred at the
                                                                 facility; or.
                                                                  Received blue discard logsheet from a catcher
                                                                    vessel, not the actual date of discard or
                                                                    disposition indicated on the blue discard
                                                                                   logsheet; or
                                                                   Received BSR from a buying station, not the
                                                                 actual date of discard or disposition indicated
                                                                                   on the BSR.
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\1\ CV = Catcher vessel; SS = Shoreside processor; SFP = stationary floating processor; MS = mothership; Catcher/
  processor = C/P; BS = Buying station

    (B) Week-ending date. The last day of the weekly reporting period: 
2400 hours, A.l.t., Saturday night (except during the last week of each 
year, when it ends on December 31).
    (C) Time, in military format, A.l.t.
    (D) Page numbering. (1) Number the pages in each logbook and BSR 
consecutively, beginning with page 1 and continuing for the remainder 
of the fishing year.
    (2) If a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, 
number the DCPL pages within Part I and Part II separately, beginning 
with page 1. If in an inactive period, the manager needs only to record 
in Part I.
    (E) Logbook numbering--(1) Two logbooks of same gear type. If more 
than one logbook of the same gear type is used in a fishing year, the 
page numbers must follow the consecutive order of the previous logbook.
    (2) Two logbooks of different gear types. If two logbooks of 
different gear types are used in a fishing year, the page numbers in 
each logbook must start with page 1.
    (3) Two logbooks for pair trawl. If two catcher vessels are 
dragging a trawl between them (pair trawl), two logbooks must be 
maintained, a separate DFL by each vessel to record the amount of the 
catch retained and fish discarded by that vessel, each separately 
paginated.
    (F) Original/revised report. Except for a DFL or DCPL, if a report 
is the first one submitted to the Regional Administrator for a given 
date, gear type, and reporting area, indicate ORIGINAL REPORT. If a 
report is a correction to a previously submitted report for a given 
date, gear type, and reporting area, indicate REVISED REPORT.
    (G) Position coordinates, position in lat. and long.
    (7) What is an active status? (i) Fishing activity, active periods, 
and inactive periods. The operator or manager daily must record in the 
appropriate logbook the status of fishing activity as active or 
inactive according to the following table:

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                                                                                         An inactive period is .
    If participant is a . . .     Fishing activity is . .   An active period is . . .              . .
---------------------------------------------.------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) CV \1\......................  Harvest or discard of    When gear remains on the     When no gear remains on
                                   groundfish.              grounds in a reporting       the grounds in a
                                                            area (except 300, 400,       reporting area.
                                                            550, or 690), regardless
                                                            of the vessel location.
(B) SS, SFP, MS.................  Receipt, discard, or     When checked in or           When not checked in or
                                   processing of            processing.                  not processing.
                                   groundfish.
(C) C/P.........................  Harvest, discard, or     When checked in or           When not checked in or
                                   processing of            processing.                  not processing.
                                   groundfish.

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(D) BS..........................  Receipt, discard, or     When conducting fishing      When not conducting
                                   delivery of groundfish.  activity for an associated   fishing activity for an
                                                            processor.                   associated processor.
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\1\ CV = Catcher vessel; SS = Shoreside processor; SFP = stationary floating processor; MS = mothership; Catcher/
  processor = C/P; BS = Buying station

    (ii) What do I record if I'm not active? If not active, the 
operator or manager must record in the appropriate logbook or form a 
brief explanation according to the following table:

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    The operator or manager must enter:                   In the ...                          If ...
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) No receipt.............................  (1) DCPL...........................  No deliveries received for a
                                                                                   day.
                                             (2) DCPL, WPR......................  No deliveries received during
                                                                                   a weekly reporting period.
(B) No landings............................  (1) DCPL, DPR......................  No landings occurred for a
                                                                                   day.
                                             (2) DCPL, WPR......................  No landings occurred during a
                                                                                   weekly reporting period.
(C) No production..........................  (1) DCPL, DPR......................  No production occurred for a
                                                                                   day.
                                             (2) DCPL, WPR......................  No production occurred for a
                                                                                   weekly reporting period.
(D) No discard or Disposition..............  (1) DCPL, DFL, BSR or DPR..........  No discards or dispositions
                                                                                   occurred for a day.
                                             (2) DCPL, WPR......................  No discards or dispositions
                                                                                   occurred for a weekly
                                                                                   reporting period.
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    (iii) Recording activity on logsheets. When recording fishing 
activity in an appropriate logbook, the operator or manager must:
    (A) Active. If active, complete a separate logsheet for each day 
(except a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor).
    (B) Active but not fishing. If active but not fishing, complete on 
one logsheet:
    (1) Check ``active but not fishing.''
    (2) Record the date of the first day when active but not fishing 
under ``Start date.''
    (3) Indicate brief explanation that you are active but not fishing.
    (4) Record the date of the last day when active but not fishing.
    (C) Inactive. If inactive, complete on one logsheet:
    (1) Check ``inactive.''
    (2) Record the date of the first day when inactive under ``Start 
date.''
    (3) Indicate brief explanation that you are inactive.
    (4) Record the date of the last day when inactive.
    (D) Two or more quarters. If the ``inactive'' time period or 
``active but not fishing'' time period extends across two or more 
successive quarters, the operator or manager must complete two 
logsheets: the first to indicate the last day of the first ``inactive'' 
or ``active but not fishing'' quarter and the next page to indicate the 
first day of the second ``inactive'' or ``active but not fishing'' 
quarter.
    (E) Participant information if not active. If using one logsheet to 
record a period when inactive or active-not-fishing, record the 
participant information as described at paragraph (a)(8) of this 
section.
    (iv) Weight of fish. When recording weight in a logbook or form, 
the operator or manager must follow the guidelines in the tables in 
paragraphs (a)(7)(iv)(C) and (D) and (a)(7)(iv)(F) through (I) of this 
section and must:
    (A) Indicate whether records of weight are in pounds or metric 
tons.
    (1) If a DFL, DCPL, BSR, and shoreside processor check-in report or 
check-out report, record weight in pounds or in metric tons to the 
nearest 0.001 mt, but be consistent throughout the year.
    (2) If a WPR or DPR, record weight in metric tons to the nearest 
0.001.
    (B) Record the weight of groundfish landings, groundfish product, 
and groundfish or prohibited species Pacific herring discard or 
disposition weight by species codes as defined in Table 2 to this part 
and product codes and product designations as defined in Table 1 to 
this part. Except for product information provided by shoreside 
processors or stationary floating processors [which is the sum of 
product weight separately by BSAI or GOA management area], the operator 
or manager must summarize groundfish weights separately by reporting 
area, management program information, gear type, and if trawl gear 
used, whether harvest was caught in the CVOA or the COBLZ.
    (C) Daily catch weight. The operator or manager must enter daily 
catch weight per the following table:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
               Enter . . .                               In a . . .                         If a . . .
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(1) Estimated total round catch weight of  DCPL.................................  SS, SFP
 groundfish, listed by CV or BS.
(2) Estimated total round catch weight of  Trawl DFL............................  CV
 groundfish by haul.
(3) Estimated total round catch weight of  Trawl DCPL...........................  C/P
 groundfish by haul, excluding pollock
 and Pacific cod.
(4) Estimated total round catch weight of  DCPL.................................  MS
 groundfish listed by CV or BS, excluding
 pollock and Pacific cod.
(5) Estimated total round catch weight of  Longline or pot DFL..................  CV
 groundfish by set, excluding CDQ/IFQ
 Pacific halibut and IFQ sablefish.
(6) Estimated total round catch weight of  Longline or pot DCPL.................  C/P
 groundfish by set, excluding CDQ/IFQ
 Pacific halibut, IFQ sablefish, pollock
 and Pacific cod.
(7) If a CV reported discards on a blue    (i)DCPL..............................  MS, SS, SFP
 discard logsheet but did not deliver
 groundfish, enter ``0'' in this column.
                                           (ii)BSR..............................  BS
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    (D) Daily landings weight. The operator or manager must enter daily 
landings weight per the following table:

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               Enter . . .                               In a . . .                         If a . . .
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(1) Obtain actual weights for each         DCPL, DPR............................  SS, SFP
 groundfish species received and retained
 by: Sorting according to species codes
 and direct weighing of that species, or
 weighing the entire delivery and then
 sorting and weighing some or all of the
 groundfish species individually to
 determine their weight..
(2) Record daily combined scale weights    DCPL, DPR............................  SS, SFP
 of landings by species and product codes.
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    (E) Daily product weight. The operator or manager of a SS, SFP, MS, 
or C/P must enter total daily fish product weight or actual scale 
weight of fish product by species and product codes in the DCPL and 
DPR.
    (F) Daily discard or disposition weight and number. The operator or 
manager must enter daily discard or disposition weight and number per 
the following table:

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              Enter .  .  .                             In a .  .  .                       If a .  .  .
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(1) The daily estimated total weight of    DCPL, DFL, BSR, ADF&G fish ticket....  CV, BS, SS, SFP, MS, C/P
 discards or disposition for Pacific
 herring and each groundfish species or
 species group.
(2) The daily estimated numbers of whole   DCPL, DFL, BSR, ADF&G fish ticket....  CV, BS, SS, SFP, MS, C/P
 fish discards or disposition of
 prohibited species Pacific salmon,
 steelhead trout, Pacific halibut, king
 crab, and C. opilio or C. bairdi Tanner
 crabs.
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    (G) Balance brought forward. The operator or manager must enter the 
balance brought forward per the following table:

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              Enter .  .  .                             In a .  .  .                       If a .  .  .
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) The total product balance brought      DCPL.................................  MS, C/P
 forward from the previous day.
(2) The total estimated discards or        DFL, DCPL............................  CV, MS, C/P
 disposition balance brought forward from
 the previous day.
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    (H) Zero balance. The operator or manager must enter zero balance 
per the following table:

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          Record weights as zero                        In a .  .  .                       If a .  .  .
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(1) After the offload or transfer of all   DFL..................................  CV
 fish or fish product onboard and prior
 to the beginning of each fishing trip.
(2) After the offload or transfer of all   DCPL.................................  MS, C/P
 fish or fish product onboard, if such
 offload occurs prior to the end of a
 weekly reporting period. Nothing shall
 be carried forward.
(3) At the beginning of each weekly        DCPL.................................  MS, C/P
 reporting period. Nothing shall be
 carried forward from the previous weekly
 reporting period.
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    (I) Cumulative totals. The operator or manager must enter 
cumulative totals per the following table:

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              Enter .  .  .                             In a .  .  .                       If a .  .  .
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Weekly cumulative totals, calculated   DCPL, WPR............................  MS, C/P
 by adding the daily totals and balance
 carried forward.
(2) Weekly cumulative totals, calculated   DCPL, WPR............................  SS, SFP
 by adding the daily totals.
(3) Cumulative total discards or           DFL..................................  CV
 disposition since last delivery. Enter
 the cumulative estimated total discards
 or disposition since last delivery
 calculated by adding the daily totals
 and balance carried forward from the day
 before.
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    (v) Numbers of fish. The operator or manager must record the 
estimated numbers of whole fish discards or disposition of prohibited 
species Pacific salmon, steelhead trout, Pacific halibut, king crab, 
and C. opilio or C. bairdi Tanner crabs.
    (vi) Species codes. To record species information for federally 
managed groundfish, the operator or manager must use Table 2 to this 
part to determine species codes.
    (vii) Product codes and product designations. To record product 
information for federally managed groundfish, the operator or manager 
must use Table 1 to this part to determine product codes and product 
designations.
    (viii) Target codes. To record target species information for 
federally managed groundfish, the operator or manager must use Table 2 
to this part to determine species codes. Target species may be recorded 
as primary and secondary.
    (ix) Gear type information--(A) Longline or pot gear. If a catcher 
vessel or catcher/processor using longline or pot gear, the operator or 
manager must indicate the gear type used to harvest the fish and 
appropriate ``gear ID''. If gear information is the same on subsequent 
pages, check the appropriate box instead of re-entering the 
information.

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     (B) If gear type is . . .                Then enter . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Pot...........................  Number of pots set
(2) Hook-and-line.................  (i) Check the appropriate box to
                                     indicate whether gear is fixed hook
                                     (conventional or tub), autoline, or
                                     snap (optional, but may be required
                                     by IPHC regulations).
                                    (ii) Length of skate to the nearest
                                     foot (optional, but may be required
                                     by IPHC regulations).
                                    (iii) Size of hooks, hook spacing in
                                     feet, and number of hooks per skate
                                     (optional, but may be required by
                                     IPHC regulations).
                                    (iv) Number of skates set
                                    (v) Number of skates lost (if
                                     applicable) (optional, but may be
                                     required by IPHC regulations).

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(3) Longline......................  Bird avoidance gear code (see Table
                                     19 to this part).
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    (x) Separate logsheet, WPR, check-in/check-out report. The operator 
or manager must use a separate page (logsheet, WPR, check-in/check-out 
report) according to the table in paragraph (a)(7)(xii) of this 
section:
    (A) For each day of an active period, except shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processors may use one logsheet for each day of an 
active period or use one logsheet for up to 7 days.
    (B) If harvest from more than one reporting area.
    (C) If harvest from COBLZ or RKCSA within a reporting area. Use two 
separate logsheets, the first to record the information from the 
reporting area that includes COBLZ or RKCSA, and the second to record 
the information from the reporting area that does not include COBLZ or 
RKCSA.
    (D) If harvest with more than one gear type.
    (E) If harvest under a separate management program. If harvest from 
more than one program of the same management type, use a separate 
logsheet for each identifying program number.
    (xi) Reporting area. The operator or manager must record the 
reporting area code (see Figures 1 and 3 to this part) where gear 
retrieval (see Sec. 679.2) was completed, regardless of where the 
majority of the set took place. Record in the DFL, BSR, DCPL, SPELR, 
WPR, DPR, and mothership or catcher/processor check-in/check-out 
report.
    (xii) Areas within a reporting area. If harvest was caught using 
trawl gear, the operator or manager must indicate whether fishing 
occurred in the COBLZ or RKCSA:

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                                            Area                                   Reference
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) COBLZ                     BSAI C. opilio Bairdi Bycatch    Figure 13 to this part.
                               Limitation Zone.
(B) RKCSA                     Red King Crab Savings Area.....  Figure 11 to this part.
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    (xiii) Observer information. Record the number of observers aboard 
or on site, the name of the observer(s), and the observer cruise 
number(s) in the DFL and DCPL. If a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor, record also the dates present for each observer.
    (xiv) Number of crew or crew size. Record the number of crew, 
excluding certified observer(s), on a mothership or catcher/processor 
WPR and in the BSR; on the last day of the weekly reporting period in a 
mothership or catcher/processor DCPL; and in the DFL on the last day of 
a trip for a catcher vessel.
    (xv) Management program. Indicate whether harvest occurred under 
one of the listed management programs in a DFL, BSR, DCPL, SPELR, WPR, 
DPR, or check-in/check-out report. If harvest is not under one of these 
management programs, leave blank.

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   If harvest made under . . . .     Indicate yes and record the
              program                          . . . .                               Reference
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) CDQ...........................  CDQ group number............  Subpart C to part 679.
(B) Exempted Fishery..............  Exempted fishery permit       Sec.  679.26.
                                     number.
(C) Research......................  Research program permit       Sec.  600.745(a) of this chapter.
                                     number.
(D) IFQ...........................  IFQ permit number(s)........  Subpart D to part 679.
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    (8) Landings information--(i) Requirement. The manager of a 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor must record 
landings information for all retained species from groundfish 
deliveries.
    (A) If recording in DCPL, or DPR, enter date of landing and daily 
weight and weekly cumulative weight by species code and product code.
    (B) If recording in WPR, enter weekly cumulative weight by species 
code and product code.
    (ii) Landings as product. If a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor receives groundfish, records them as landings in 
Part IB of the DCPL, and transfers these fish to another processor 
without further processing, the manager must also record the species 
code, product code, and weight of these fish in Part II of the DCPL 
prior to transfer.
    (9) Product information--(i) Requirement. The operator of a 
catcher/processor or mothership or the manager of a shoreside processor 
or stationary floating processor must record groundfish product 
information for all retained species from groundfish deliveries.
    (A) If recording in DCPL or DPR, enter date of production 
(shoreside processor or stationary floating processor only); daily 
weight, balance forward (except shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor), and weekly cumulative weight by species code, 
product code, and product designation.
    (B) If recording in WPR, enter weekly cumulative weight by species 
code, product code, and product designation.
    (ii) Custom processing. The operator of a catcher/processor or 
mothership or the manager of a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor must record products that result from custom 
processing by you for another processor. If you receive unprocessed or 
processed groundfish to be handled or processed for another processor 
or business entity, enter these groundfish in a DCPL and a WPR 
consistently throughout a fishing year using one of the following two 
methods:
    (A) Combined records. Record landings (if applicable), discards or 
dispositions, and products of contract-processed groundfish routinely 
in the DCPL, SPELR, WPR, and DPR without separate identification; or
    (B) Separate records. Record landings (if applicable), discards or 
dispositions, and products of custom-processed groundfish in a separate 
DCPL, WPR, and DPR identified by the name, Federal processor permit 
number or Federal fisheries permit number, and ADF&G

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processor code of the associated business entity.
    (10) Discard or disposition information--(i) Shoreside processor, 
stationary floating processor, mothership--(A) DCPL or DPR. (1) Except 
as described in paragraph (a)(10)(v) of this section, the manager of a 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, and the operator 
of a mothership must record in a DCPL and DPR, discard or disposition 
information that occurred on and was reported by a catcher vessel, that 
occurred on and was reported by a buying station, and that occurred 
prior to, during, and after production of groundfish.
    (2) Discard or disposition information must include: Date of 
discard or disposition (only shoreside processor or stationary floating 
processor); daily weight of groundfish; daily weight of Pacific herring 
PSC; daily number of PSC animals; balance forward (except shoreside 
processor or stationary floating processor); and weekly cumulative 
weight of groundfish and herring PSC; weekly cumulative number of PSC 
animals; species codes and product codes.
    (B) WPR. The manager of a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor, and the operator of a mothership must record in a 
WPR, discard or disposition information to include: week-ending date; 
weekly cumulative weight of groundfish and herring PSC; and weekly 
cumulative number of PSC animals by species code and product code.
    (ii) Catcher/processor--(A) DCPL or DPR. (1) The operator of a 
catcher/processor must record in a DCPL and DPR, discard or disposition 
information that occurred prior to, during, and after production of 
groundfish.
    (2) Discard or disposition information must include: daily weight 
of groundfish; daily weight of herring PSC; daily number of PSC 
animals, balance forward, and weekly cumulative weight of groundfish 
and herring PSC; and weekly cumulative number of PSC animals by species 
code and product code.
    (B) WPR. The operator of a catcher/processor must record in a WPR, 
discard or disposition information to include: week-ending date; weekly 
cumulative weight of groundfish and herring PSC; and weekly cumulative 
number of PSC animals by species code and product code.
    (iii) Buying station. The operator or manager of a buying station 
must record in a BSR discard or disposition information that occurred 
on and was reported by a catcher vessel and that occurred on and prior 
to delivery to an associated processor. Discard or disposition 
information must include: daily weight of groundfish, daily weight of 
herring PSC, and daily number of PSC animals by species code and 
product code.
    (iv) Catcher vessel. Except as described in paragraph (a)(10)(vi) 
of this section, the operator of a catcher vessel must record in a DFL 
discard or disposition information that occurred on and prior to 
delivery to a buying station, mothership, shoreside processor, or 
stationary floating processor. Discard or disposition information must 
include daily weight of groundfish, daily weight of herring PSC, and 
daily number of PSC animals by species code and product code.
    (v) Exemption: Catcher vessel unsorted codends. If a catcher vessel 
is using trawl gear and deliveries to a mothership, shoreside 
processor, stationary floating processor, or buying station are of 
unsorted codends, the catcher vessel is exempt from recording discards 
in the DFL and from submittal of the blue discard logsheet for that 
delivery.
    (vi) Discard quantities over maximum retainable amount. When 
fishing in an IFQ fishery and the fishery for Pacific cod or rockfish 
is closed to directed fishing in that reporting area as described in 
Sec. 679.20, the operator must retain and record up to and including 
the maximum retainable amount for Pacific cod or rockfish as defined in 
Table 10 or 11 to this part; quantities over this amount must be 
discarded and recorded as discard in the logbook.
    (vii) Discard or disposition logbook recording time limits. The 
operator or manager must record discards and disposition information in 
the logbook within the time limits given in the following table:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
       If participant is a \1\ . . .           Record information . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) MS, SS, SFP                              By noon each day to record
                                              the previous day's discard/
                                              disposition that:
                                             (1) Occurs on site after
                                              receipt of groundfish from
                                              a CV or BS;
                                             (2) Occurs during
                                              processing of groundfish
                                              received from a CV or BS;
                                             (3) Was reported on a blue
                                              DFL received from a CV
                                              delivering groundfish;
                                             (4) Was reported on a BSR
                                              received from a BS
                                              delivering groundfish, if
                                              different from blue DFL.
(B) CV, C/P                                  By noon each day to record
                                              the previous day's discard/
                                              disposition.
(C) BS                                       By noon each day to record
                                              the previous day's discard/
                                              disposition that:
                                             (1) Was reported on a blue
                                              DFL received from a CV
                                              delivering groundfish.
                                             (2) Occurs on BS after
                                              receipt of harvest from a
                                              CV.
                                             (3) Occurs prior to
                                              delivery of harvest to a
                                              MS, SS, or SFP.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ CV=Catcher vessel; SS=Shoreside processor; SFP=stationary floating
  processor; MS=mothership; Catcher/processor=C/P; BS=Buying station

    (11) Delivery information--(i) Mothership, shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor. The operator of a mothership or manager 
of a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor must record 
delivery information in a DCPL or SPELR when unprocessed groundfish 
deliveries are received from a buying station or a catcher vessel. 
Discards must also be recorded when no groundfish are delivered but the 
blue discard logsheet containing records of discards is submitted by a 
catcher vessel (e.g., an IFQ fish delivery with no groundfish 
incidental catch).
    (ii) Buying station. (A) The operator or manager of a buying 
station must record delivery information in a BSR when unprocessed 
groundfish deliveries are received from a catcher vessel and also when 
no groundfish are delivered but the blue discard logsheet containing 
records of discards is submitted by a catcher vessel (e.g., an IFQ fish 
delivery with no groundfish incidental catch).
    (B) In addition, a catcher vessel operator by prior arrangement 
with a processor may function as a buying station for his own catch by: 
Shipping his groundfish catch with a copy of the BSR directly to that 
processor via truck or airline in the event that the processor is not 
located where the harvest is offloaded; or by driving a truck that 
contains his catch and a copy of the BSR to the processor. When the 
shipment arrives at the processor, the information from the BSR would 
be incorporated by

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the manager of the shoreside processor or stationary floating processor 
into the DCPL.
    (iii) Required delivery information, Mothership, shoreside 
processor, stationary floating processor, or buying station--(A) Date 
of delivery. Enter date of delivery.
    (B) CV or BS. If a mothership, shoreside processor, or stationary 
floating processor, the manager or operator must:
    (1) Enter CV or BS to indicate delivery from catcher vessel or 
buying station, respectively.
    (2) If delivery is from a buying station, keep the BSR for each 
delivery on file throughout the fishing year and for 3 years after the 
end of the fishing year.
    (C) Receive discard report. Indicate whether the blue discard 
logsheet was received from the catcher vessel at the time of catch 
delivery; if delivery from a buying station, leave this column blank; 
if blue discard logsheet not received from catcher vessel, enter NO and 
the response code (example: NO-L) to describe the reason for non-
submittal as follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
  If blue DFL not submitted by
 catcher vessel, record number        To indicate the catcher vessel
       followed by . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) P                            Does not have a Federal fisheries
                                  permit.
(2) P                            Is under 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA and does
                                  not have a Federal fisheries permit.
(3) L                            Is under 60 ft (18.3 m) LOA and has a
                                  Federal fisheries permit.
(4) U                            Delivered an unsorted codend.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (D) Name and ADF&G vessel registration number (if applicable) of 
the catcher vessel or buying station delivering the groundfish;
    (E) Time when receipt of groundfish delivery was completed;
    (F) Mothership begin position. If a mothership, the mothership's 
begin position coordinates when receiving the groundfish delivery;
    (G) ADF&G fish ticket numbers. (1) If a mothership, shoreside 
processor, or stationary floating processor and receiving unprocessed 
groundfish from a catcher vessel, record in the DCPL and WPR the AD&FG 
fish ticket number issued to each catcher vessel; if receiving 
unprocessed groundfish from an associated buying station, record in the 
DCPL and WPR the AD&FG fish ticket numbers issued by the buying station 
to the catcher vessel.
    (2) If a buying station and receiving unprocessed groundfish from a 
catcher vessel, record in the BSR the ADF&G fish tickets numbers issued 
to each catcher vessel.
    (H) Fish ticket numbers, state other than Alaska. If a shoreside 
processor located in a state other than Alaska and receiving 
unprocessed groundfish from a catcher vessel, record in the DCPL and 
WPR the fish ticket numbers issued for that non-Alaska state along with 
the two-character abbreviation for that state.
    (I) Catch receipt numbers, state other than Alaska. If a shoreside 
processor located in a state other than Alaska where no fish ticket 
system is available and receiving unprocessed groundfish from a catcher 
vessel, record in the DCPL the catch receipt number issued to the 
catcher vessel.
    (iv) Catcher vessel using trawl gear. If a catcher vessel using 
trawl gear, indicate whether sorting of codend onboard or bleeding from 
a codend occurred prior to delivery to a mothership, shoreside 
processor, stationary floating processor, or buying station. If 
delivery is an unsorted codend, see paragraph (a)(10)(vi) of this 
section. Delivery information required: The delivery date; the ADF&G 
fish ticket number(s) received for delivery; and recipient's name and 
ADF&G processor code.
    (v) Catcher vessel using longline or pot gear. If IFQ delivery, 
information required: the delivery date; the ADF&G fish ticket 
number(s) received at delivery; name of IFQ Registered Buyer receiving 
harvest; name of unloading port (see paragraph (l)(5)(vi) of this 
section and Table 14 to this part) or landing location. If non-IFQ 
delivery, information required: the delivery date; the ADF&G fish 
ticket number(s) received at delivery; name of recipient receiving 
harvest; name of unloading port (see Table 14 to this part) or landing 
location.
    (12) Alteration of records. (i) The operator, manager, or any other 
person may not alter or change any entry or record in a logbook, except 
that an inaccurate or incorrect entry or record may be corrected by 
lining out the original and inserting the correction, provided that the 
original entry or record remains legible.
    (ii) No person except an authorized officer may remove any original 
page of any logbook.
    (13) Inspection and retention of records--(i) Inspection. The 
operator of a catcher vessel or catcher/processor or mothership, the 
manager of a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, or 
the operator of a buying station must make all logbooks, reports, 
forms, and mothership-issued fish tickets required under this section 
available for inspection upon the request of an authorized officer for 
the time periods indicated in paragraph (a)(13)(ii) of this section.
    (ii) Retention of records. The operator or manager must retain 
logbooks and forms as follows:
    (A) On site. On site at the shoreside facility or onboard the 
vessel until the end of the fishing year during which the records were 
made and for as long thereafter as fish or fish products recorded in 
the logbooks and forms are retained.
    (B) For 3 years. Make them available upon request of an authorized 
officer for 3 years after the end of the fishing year during which the 
records were made.
    (14) Submittal and distribution of logbooks and forms--(i) 
Submittal of forms. The operator or manager must submit to NMFS the 
check-in report, check-out report, VAR, WPR, DPR, and PTR (see Table 9 
to this part), as applicable, by:
    (A) Faxing the NMFS printed form to the FAX number on the form; or
    (B) Telexing a data file to the telex number on the form.
    (C) Transmitting a data file with required information and forms to 
NMFS by e-mail, modem, or satellite (specifically INMARSAT standards A, 
B, or C).
    (D) With the approval of the Regional Administrator, using the 
voluntary electronic reporting format for the check-in report, check-
out report, WPR, and shoreside processor electronic logbook delivery 
report.
    (ii) Logbook copy sets. (A) The copy sets of each logbook are 
described in the following table:

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            Type of logbook                         Copy sets
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) Catcher vessel longline and pot      White, blue, green, yellow,
 gear DFL.                                goldenrod.
(2) Catcher vessel trawl gear DFL......  White, blue, yellow, goldenrod.
(3) Catcher/processor longline and pot   White, green, yellow,
 gear DCPL.                               goldenrod.
(4) Catcher/processor trawl gear DCPL..  White, yellow, goldenrod.
(5) Mothership DCPL....................  White, yellow, goldenrod.
(6) Shoreside processor DCPL...........  White, yellow, goldenrod.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (B) [Reserved]
    (iii) Logsheet distribution. The logsheet distribution is described 
in the following table:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                     >Then, the operator or manager must
        If logsheet is . . .                        . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) White..........................  Retain, permanently bound in the
                                      logbook.
(B) Yellow.........................  Submit quarterly to: NOAA Office
                                      for Enforcement, Alaska Region,
                                      Logbook Program, P.O. Box 21767,
                                      Juneau, AK 99802-1767 on the
                                      following schedule:
                                     1st quarter by May 1 of that
                                      fishing year
                                     2nd quarter by August 1 of that
                                      fishing year
                                     3rd quarter by November 1 of that
                                      fishing year
                                     4th quarter by February 1 of the
                                      following fishing year.
(C) Blue...........................  (1) Catcher vessel. Except when
                                      delivering an unsorted codend (see
                                      paragraph (a)(10)(vi) of this
                                      section), submit to the buying
                                      station, mothership, shoreside
                                      processor or stationary floating
                                      processor that receives the
                                      harvest.
                                     (2) Buying station. Submit upon
                                      delivery of catch to an associated
                                      mothership, shoreside processor,
                                      or stationary floating processor
                                      any blue discard logsheet received
                                      from catcher vessels delivering
                                      groundfish to the buying station.
(D) Green..........................  Longline and pot gear DFL and DCPL.
                                      To support a separate IFQ data
                                      collection by the IPHC under the
                                      joint NMFS/IPHC logbook program;
                                      check with the IPHC for submittal
                                      and retention requirements.
(E) Goldenrod......................  Submit to the observer onboard or
                                      onsite after the logsheet is
                                      signed by the operator or manager.
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    (iv) Logbook time limits. The following table displays the 
responsibilities of the operator or manager to submit the identified 
logsheet within a specified time limit:

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                                                       The operator or manager must .
                      If a . . .                                     . .                       Time limit
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(A) CV...............................................  Submit the blue DFL logsheets   >Within 2 hours after
                                                        to the MS, SS, SFP, or BS       completion of catch
                                                        receiving the catch.            delivery.
(B) CV or C/P........................................  (1) DFL, DCPL using trawl       Within 2 hours after
                                                        gear: record time, position,    completion of gear
                                                        CDQ group number and            retrieval.
                                                        estimated total groundfish
                                                        catch weight for each haul or
                                                        set.
                                                       (2) DFL, DCPL using longline    Within 2 hours after
                                                        or pot gear: record set         completion of gear
                                                        number, time and date set,      retrieval.
                                                        time and date hauled, begin
                                                        and end position, number of
                                                        pots set, and estimated total
                                                        catch weight of groundfish
                                                        for each set.
                                                       (3) DFL, DCPL: notwithstanding  Within 2 hours after the
                                                        other time limits, record all   vessel's catch is off-
                                                        information required in the     loaded.
                                                        DFL or DCPL.
(C) CV, C/P, MS, SS or SFP...........................  (1) DFL, DCPL: record discard   By noon each day to
                                                        or disposition information.     record the previous
                                                                                        day's discard/
                                                                                        disposition.
                                                       (2) DFL, DCPL: sign the         By noon of the day
                                                        completed logsheets.            following the week-
                                                                                        ending date of the
                                                                                        weekly reporting period.
                                                       (3) DFL, DCPL: submit the       After signature of
                                                        goldenrod logsheet to the       operator or manager.
                                                        observer.
(D) C/P, MS, SS, or SFP..............................  (1) DFL, DCPL: record all       By noon of the day
                                                        other required information.     following completion of
                                                                                        production.
                                                       (2) DFL, DCPL: record product   By noon each day for the
                                                        information.                    previous day's
                                                                                        production.
(E) MS, SS or SFP....................................  (1) DFL, DCPL: record delivery  Within 2 hours after
                                                        information.                    completion of receipt of
                                                                                        each groundfish
                                                                                        delivery.
                                                       (2) DFL, DCPL: record all       By noon of the day
                                                        other information required in   following the day the
                                                        the logbook.                    receipt of groundfish
                                                                                        was completed.
(F) SS or SFP........................................  DCPL: record landings           By noon each day to
                                                        information.                    record the previous
                                                                                        day's landings.
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Note: SS = shoreside processor; SFP = stationary floating processor; C/P = catcher/processor; CV = catcher
  vessel; MS = mothership; BS = buying station

    (15) Transfer document comparison. When the operator or manager is 
participating in both the groundfish fisheries and the IFQ fisheries, 
certain exceptions to submittal of forms are provided by the following 
table:

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                                                                                              IFQ
                                                       IFQ trans       IFQ        IFQ      dockside       IFQ
                                  VAR        PTR        shipment      vessel   departure     sale      shipment
                                                     authorization  clearance    report     receipt     report
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                               Sec.  67  Sec.  679.  Sec.  679.     Sec.  679  Sec.  679  Sec.  679.  Sec.  679.
                               9. 5(k)        5(g)      5(l)(4)     . 5(l)(5)  . 5(l)(5)  5(l)(3)(iv    5(l)(3)
                                                                                                  )
(i) If a catcher vessel              X
 leaving Alaska with
 groundfish but no IFQ
 product onboard.............
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(ii) If a mothership or              X           X
 catcher/processor leaving
 Alaska with groundfish but
 no IFQ product onboard......
(iii) If a vessel leaving                                                  X          X
 Alaska with IFQ sablefish or
 halibut but no other
 groundfish onboard..........
(iv) If a vessel leaving             X           X                         X          X
 Alaska with IFQ sablefish or
 halibut and other groundfish
 onboard.....................
(v) Transfer of groundfish...                    X
(vi) Transfer of CDQ                                                                                          X
 sablefish...................
(vii) Transfer of IFQ fish...                                                                     X           X
(viii) Transfer of IFQ                                        X
 between vessels.............
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    (b) Representative. (1) The operator of a catcher vessel, 
mothership, catcher/processor, or buying station delivering to a 
mothership or manager of a shoreside processor or buying station 
delivering to a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor 
may identify one contact person to complete the logbook and forms and 
to respond to inquiries from NMFS. Designation of a representative 
under this paragraph does not relieve the owner, operator, or manager 
of responsibility for compliance under paragraph (a)(2) of this 
section.
    (2) Except for a DFL, BSR, PTR, or DCPL, the operator or manager 
must provide the following representative identification information: 
The representative's name; daytime business telephone number (including 
area code); and FAX or telex number. In addition, if completing a DPR, 
a VAR, or a mothership or catcher/processor check-in/check-out report, 
the representative's COMSAT number.
    (c) Catcher vessel DFL and catcher/processor DCPL--(1) Longline and 
pot DFL and DCPL. In addition to information required at paragraphs (a) 
and (b) of this section, the operator of a catcher vessel or a catcher/
processor using longline or pot gear to harvest groundfish and the 
operator of a catcher vessel or a catcher/processor using longline or 
pot gear to harvest IFQ sablefish or IFQ halibut must record in the DFL 
or DCPL:
    (i) Gear type;
    (ii) IFQ permit number of the operator, if any, and of each IFQ 
holder aboard the vessel;
    (iii) Groundfish CDQ group number;
    (iv) Halibut CDQ permit number;
    (v) The set number, sequentially by year;
    (vi) Date, time, and begin position coordinates of gear deployment;
    (vii) Begin and end buoy or bag numbers (optional, but may be 
required by IPHC regulations);
    (viii) Date, time, and end position coordinates of gear retrieval;
    (ix) Begin and end gear depths, recorded to the nearest fathom 
(optional, but may be required by IPHC regulations);
    (x) Number of skates or pots set;
    (xi) Number of skates or pots lost (optional, but may be required 
by IPHC regulations);
    (xii) Target species code;
    (xiii) Estimated catch weight of IFQ halibut and CDQ halibut to the 
nearest pound, indicate ``CDQ'' above the amount of CDQ halibut;
    (xiv) Estimated weight of IFQ sablefish to the nearest pound;
    (xv) Indicate whether IFQ sablefish product is Western cut, Eastern 
cut, or round weight;
    (xvi) Number of sablefish;
    (xvii) The bird avoidance gear code;
    (xviii) If a catcher/processor, enter separately the round catch 
weight of pollock and Pacific cod to the nearest pound or metric ton 
and the estimated total round catch weight of all retained species 
combined, except sablefish, halibut, pollock and Pacific cod to at 
least the nearest 0.001 mt;
    (xix) If a catcher vessel, the estimated total round catch weight 
of all species combined, except sablefish and halibut.
    (2) Trawl gear DFL and DCPL. In addition to information required at 
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, the operator of a catcher 
vessel or a catcher/processor using trawl gear to harvest groundfish 
must record in the DFL or DCPL:
    (i) Whether nonpelagic trawl or pelagic trawl;
    (ii) Haul number, sequentially by year;
    (iii) Time and begin position coordinates of gear deployment;
    (iv) Date, time, and end position coordinates of gear retrieval;
    (v) Average sea depth and average gear depth, recorded to the 
nearest meter or fathom and whether depth recorded in meters or 
fathoms;
    (vi) Target species code;
    (vii) If a catcher/processor, enter separately the round catch 
weight of pollock, Pacific cod, and the estimated total round catch 
weight of all retained species except Pacific cod and pollock, and 
indicate whether weight is recorded to the nearest pound or metric ton;
    (viii) If a catcher vessel, enter the estimated total round catch 
weight of all retained species.
    (d) Buying station report (BSR)--(1) Requirement. In addition to 
information required at paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, the 
operator or manager of a buying station must:
    (i) Enter on each BSR the name, ADF&G processor code, and Federal 
fisheries or processor permit number of its associated processor;
    (ii) Record each delivery of unprocessed groundfish or donated 
prohibited species to an associated processor on a separate BSR.
    (iii) Ensure that a BSR, along with any blue discard logsheets 
received from a catcher vessel, accompanies each groundfish delivery 
from the landing site to the associated processor.
    (iv) Retain a copy of each BSR.
    (2) Time limits and submittal. The operator or manager must record 
all information required and sign the BSR within 2 hours of completion 
of delivery from catcher vessel.
    (e) Shoreside processor electronic logbook report (SPELR).

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    (1) The owner or manager must use SPELR or NMFS-approved software 
for the duration of the fishing year to report every delivery from all 
catcher vessels and maintain the SPELR and printed reports as described 
at paragraph (f) of this section, if a shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor:
    (i) Receives groundfish from AFA catcher vessels;
    (ii) Receives pollock harvested in a directed pollock fishery.
    (2) The owner or manager of a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor that is not required to use SPELR under paragraph 
(e)(1) of this section may use, upon approval by the Regional 
Administrator, SPELR or NMFS-approved software in lieu of the shoreside 
processor DCPL and shoreside processor WPR. Processors using the SPELR 
must maintain the SPELR and printed reports as described in this 
paragraph (e) and at paragraph (f) of this section.
    (3) Exemptions. The owner or manager who uses the SPELR per 
paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section is exempt from the following 
requirements:
    (i) Maintain shoreside processor DCPL.
    (ii) Submit quarterly DCPL logsheets to NOFE, Juneau, as described 
at paragraph (a)(14)(iii) of this section.
    (iii) Maintain and submit WPRs to the Regional Administrator as 
described at paragraph (i) of this section.
    (iv) If receiving deliveries of fish under a CDQ program, submit 
CDQ delivery reports to the Regional Administrator as described at 
paragraph (n)(1) of this section.
    (4) Time limit and submittal. (i) The SPELR must be submitted daily 
to NMFS as an electronic file. A dated return-receipt will be generated 
and sent by NMFS to the processor confirming receipt and acceptance of 
the report. The owner or manager must retain the return receipt as 
proof of report submittal. If an owner or manager does not receive a 
return receipt from NMFS, the owner or manager must contact NMFS within 
24 hours for further instruction on submittal of SPELRs.
    (ii) Daily information described at paragraph (e)(6) of this 
section must be entered into the SPELR each day on the day they occur.
    (iii) Information for each delivery described at paragraph (e)(7) 
of this section must be submitted to the Regional Administrator by noon 
of the following day for each delivery of groundfish.
    (5) Information entered once (at software installation) or whenever 
it changes. The owner or manager must enter the following information 
into the SPELR when software is installed or whenever any of the 
information changes:
    (i) Shoreside processor or stationary floating processor name, 
ADF&G processor code, Federal processor permit number, and processor e-
mail address;
    (ii) State port code as described in Table 14 to this part;
    (iii) Name, telephone and FAX numbers of representative.
    (6) Information entered daily. The owner or manager must daily 
enter the following information into the SPELR:
    (i) Whether no deliveries or no production;
    (ii) Number of observers on site;
    (iii) Whether harvested in BSAI or GOA;
    (iv) Product by species code, product code, and product 
designation;
    (v) Product weight (in lb or mt).
    (7) Information entered for each delivery. The owner or manager 
must enter for each delivery the following information into the SPELR:
    (i) Date fishing began; delivery date; vessel name and ADF&G vessel 
registration number; ADF&G fish ticket number of delivery; management 
program name and identifying number (if any); gear type of harvester; 
landed species of each delivery by species code, product code, and 
weight (in pounds or mt); ADF&G statistical area(s) where fishing 
occurred and estimated percentage of total delivered weight 
corresponding to each area; and whether delivery is from a buying 
station.
    (ii) If delivery received from a buying station, indicate name and 
type of buying station (vessel, vehicle, or other); date harvest 
received by buying station; if a vessel, ADF&G vessel registration 
number; if a vehicle, license plate number; if other than a vessel or 
vehicle, description.
    (iii) Whether a blue discard logsheet was received from catcher 
vessel; if not received, reason given; discard or disposition species; 
if groundfish or PSC herring, enter species code, product code, and 
weight (in pounds or mt); if PSC halibut, salmon, or crab, enter 
species code, product code, and count (in numbers of animals).
    (iv) If a CDQ delivery, enter species code, product code, weight 
(in pounds or mt) and count of PSQ halibut.
    (f) SPELR printed reports--(1) Requirement--(i) Daily printouts. 
The manager daily must print onsite at the shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor two reports: a shoreside logbook daily 
production report and a delivery worksheet using pre-determined formats 
generated by the SPELR or NMFS-approved software.
    (ii) Signature. The owner or manager of the shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor must sign and enter date of signature 
onto each SPELR printed report. The signature of the owner or manager 
on SPELR printed reports is verification of acceptance of the 
responsibility required in paragraphs (e) and (f) of this section.
    (iii) Delivery worksheet. The Delivery Worksheet results from a 
SPELR or NMFS-approved pre-determined format of the data; it summarizes 
daily landings and discards.
    (iv) Shoreside logbook daily production report. The Shoreside 
Logbook Daily Production Report results from a SPELR or NMFS-approved 
pre-determined format of the data; it summarizes daily production.
    (2) Retention. The manager must retain the paper copies of the 
reports described in paragraph (f)(1) of this section as follows:
    (i) Onsite. Onsite at the shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor until the end of the fishing year during which the 
reports were made and for as long thereafter as fish or fish products 
recorded in the reports are retained.
    (ii) For 3 years. For 3 years after the end of the fishing year 
during which the reports were made.
    (3) Inspection. The owner or manager must make available the 
reports described in paragraph (f)(1) of this section upon request of 
observers, NMFS personnel, and authorized officers.
    (g) Groundfish Product Transfer Report (PTR). (1) Except as 
provided in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (iv) of this section, the 
operator of a mothership or catcher/processor or the manager of a 
shoreside processor or stationary floating processor must record on a 
separate PTR each transfer of groundfish product (including unprocessed 
fish) or donated prohibited species.
    (i) Exemption: Bait sales. The operator or manager may aggregate 
individual sales or transfers of groundfish to vessels for bait 
purposes during a day onto one PTR when recording the amount of such 
bait product leaving a facility that day. If transfer is a daily 
aggregation of bait sales, enter ``BAIT SALES'' in the ``RECEIVER'' box 
and enter the time of the first sale of the day and the time of the 
last sale of the day.
    (ii) Exemption: Over-the-counter groundfish sales. The operator or 
manager may aggregate individual over-the-counter sales of groundfish 
for human consumption in quantities less than 10 lb (0.0045 mt) per 
sale during

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a day onto one PTR when recording the amount of such over-the-counter 
product leaving a facility that day. If transfer is a daily aggregation 
of over-the-counter product sales, enter ``OVER-THE-COUNTER SALES'' in 
the ``RECEIVER'' box and enter the time of the first sale of the day 
and the last sale of the day.
    (iii) Exemption: Wholesale sales. The operator or manager may 
aggregate wholesale sales of groundfish by species during a single day 
onto one PTR when recording the amount of such wholesale product 
leaving a facility that day, as long as the invoices detailing 
destinations for all of the product are available for inspection by an 
authorized officer. If transfer is a daily aggregation of wholesale 
product sales, enter ``WHOLESALE SALES'' in the ``RECEIVER'' box and 
enter the time of the first sale of the day and the last sale of the 
day.
    (iv) Exemption: IFQ Registered Buyer permit and IFQ or CDQ 
sablefish product. If the operator or the manager possesses a 
Registered Buyer permit issued per Sec. 679.4(d)(2), the operator or 
manager is not required to submit a PTR to document shipment of IFQ or 
CDQ sablefish product. However, a shipment report as described at 
paragraph (l)(3) of this section is required for each shipment of IFQ 
or CDQ sablefish product.
    (2) Time limits and submittal. The operator of a mothership or 
catcher/processor or manager of a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor must:
    (i) Record all product transfer information on a PTR within 2 hours 
of the completion of the transfer.
    (ii) Submit by FAX or electronic file a copy of each PTR to NOFE, 
Juneau, by 1200 hours, A.l.t., on the Tuesday following the end of the 
applicable weekly reporting period in which the transfer occurred.
    (iii) A PTR is not required to accompany a shipment or offload.
    (3) General information. In addition to requirements described in 
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section the operator or manager must 
record on a PTR:
    (i) Whether original or revised PTR;
    (ii) Whether receipt or shipment. ``RECEIPT'' if product is 
received; ``SHIPMENT'' if transferring product off your site or 
transferring product off your vessel;
    (iii) Your processor type;
    (iv) Whether you are the shipper or the receiver.
    (4) Transfer Information--(i) Shipper. (A) Enter information about 
your company: If you are shipping groundfish or groundfish product, 
enter your company name, address, FAX number, and ADF&G processor code.
    (B) Enter information about the other company: If you are receiving 
groundfish or groundfish product from another company, enter name of 
the other company and ADF&G processor code (if applicable).
    (ii) Receiver. (A) Enter information about your company: If you are 
receiving groundfish or groundfish product, enter your company name and 
ADF&G processor code.
    (B) Enter information about the other company: If you are shipping 
groundfish or groundfish product to another company on land, enter name 
of the receiver and ADF&G processor code (if applicable).
    (C) If you are the shipper, enter appropriate information about the 
other company as provided in the following table:

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                                                                              Position of           Mode of
            If . . .               You must provide    Date and time of    product transfer    transportation &
                                       the . . .       product transfer   or port of landing    intended route
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(1) Receiver is on land.........  Name of the         (i) Ground          N/A...............  The name of the
                                   receiver and        Transportation.                         shipping company
                                   ADF&G processor     If transfer                             and van or truck
                                   code (if            involves one van                        arrival location.
                                   applicable).        or truck, the
                                                       date and time
                                                       when shipment
                                                       leaves the plant.
                                                      (ii) If transfer    N/A...............  The name of the
                                                       involves multiple                       shipping company
                                                       vans or trucks,                         and van or truck
                                                       the date and time                       arrival location.
                                                       when loading of
                                                       vans or trucks is
                                                       completed each
                                                       day.
                                                      (iii) Airline       N/A...............  The name of the
                                                       Transportation.                         airline and
                                                       If transfer                             airport arrival
                                                       involves one                            location.
                                                       airline flight,
                                                       the date and time
                                                       when shipment
                                                       leaves the plant.
                                                      (iv) If transfer    N/A...............  The name of the
                                                       involves multiple                       airline and
                                                       airline flights,                        airport arrival
                                                       record date and                         location.
                                                       time when the
                                                       last airline
                                                       flight shipment
                                                       of the day leaves.
(2) Receiver is a vessel........  Name and call sign  Start and finish    If the product      The first
                                   of the vessel.      dates and times     transfer occurs     destination of
                                                       of product          at sea, enter       the vessel.
                                                       transfer.           transfer position
                                                                           coordinates in
                                                                           latitude and
                                                                           longitude in
                                                                           degrees and
                                                                           minutes. If a
                                                                           mothership or
                                                                           catcher/
                                                                           processor and the
                                                                           product transfer
                                                                           takes place in
                                                                           port, enter the
                                                                           name of the port
                                                                           and country (if
                                                                           other than USA).
(3) Receiver is an agent (buyer,  Name and location   Start and finish    N/A...............  If a containerized
 distributor, or shipping agent).  (city, state) of    dates and times                         van, the name of
                                   agent.              of product                              the vessel
                                                       transfer.                               transporting the
                                                                                               van and arrival
                                                                                               port.

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(4) If aggregating individual     ``OVER-THE-COUNTER  The time of the     N/A...............  N/A
 over-the-counter sales of         SALES''.            first sale of the
 groundfish for human                                  day and the time
 consumption in quantities less                        of the last sale
 than 10 lb (0.0045 mt) per sale                       of the day.
 during a day onto one PTR.
(5) If aggregating individual     ``BAIT SALES''....  N/A...............  N/A...............  N/A
 bait sales of groundfish during
 a day onto one PTR.
(6) If aggregating wholesale      ``WHOLESALE         N/A...............  N/A...............  N/A
 product sales of ground-fish by   SALES''.
 species during a single day
 onto one PTR and maintaining
 for inspection by an authorized
 officer, invoices detailing
 destinations for all of the
 product.
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    (5) Products shipped or received. Enter information for each 
transfer:
    (i) The species code and product code for each product transferred 
(Tables 1 and 2 to this part).
    (ii) The number of cartons or production units transferred.
    (iii) The average weight of one carton or production unit for each 
species and product code in kilograms or pounds (indicate which).
    (iv) The total net weight (to the nearest 0.001 mt) of the products 
transferred.
    (v) In addition to paragraphs (g)(5)(i) through (iv) of this 
section, if recording two or more species with one or more product 
types of fish in the same carton, enter the actual scale weight of each 
product of each species to the nearest 0.001 mt. If not applicable, 
enter ``n/a'' in the species weight column. If you use more than one 
line to record species in one carton, use a bracket } to tie the carton 
information together.
    (6) Total or partial offload. (i) If a mothership or catcher/
processor, indicate whether the transfer is a total or partial offload.
    (ii) If a partial offload, for the products remaining on board, 
enter: species code, product code, and total product weight to the 
nearest 0.001 mt for each product.
    (h) Check-in/check-out report--(1) Requirements. The operator of a 
catcher/processor or mothership and the manager of a shoreside 
processor or stationary floating processor must submit check-in reports 
during any active period and check-out reports when not active for 
every check-in report submitted within the given time limits to the 
Regional Administrator by FAX; Telex; or transmit a data file by e-
mail, modem, or satellite (specifically INMARSAT standards A, B, or C); 
or transmit by voluntary electronic check-in and check-out reports.
    (i) Check-in report (BEGIN message). Except as indicated in 
paragraph (h)(1)(iii) to this part, the operator or manager must submit 
a check-in report according to the following table:

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 Submit a separate BEGIN message for . .       If you are a . . .                Within this time limit
--------------------.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) Each reporting area of groundfish     (1) C/P using trawl gear...  Before gear deployment.
 harvest, except 300, 400, 550, or 690.
                                          (2) C/P using longline or    Before gear deployment. May be checked in
                                           pot gear.                    to more than one area simultaneously.
                                          (3) MS, SS, SFP............  Before receiving groundfish. May be
                                                                        checked in to more than one area
                                                                        simultaneously.
                                          (4) MS.....................  Must check-in to reporting area(s) where
                                                                        groundfish were harvested.
(B) COBLZ or RKCSA......................  (1) C/P using trawl gear...  Prior to fishing. Submit one check-in for
                                                                        the COBLZ or RKCSA and another check-in
                                                                        for the area outside the COBLZ or RKCSA.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  Before receiving groundfish harvested
                                                                        with trawl gear, submit one check-in for
                                                                        the COBLZ or RKCSA and another check-in
                                                                        for the area outside the COBLZ or RKCSA.
(C) Gear Type...........................  (1) C/P....................  If in the same reporting area but using
                                                                        more than one gear type, prior to
                                                                        fishing submit a separate check-in for
                                                                        each gear type.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  If harvested in the same reporting area
                                                                        but using more than one gear type, prior
                                                                        to receiving groundfish submit a
                                                                        separate check-in for each gear type.
(D) CDQ.................................  (1) C/P....................  Prior to groundfish CDQ fishing under
                                                                        each CDQ program.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  Prior to receiving groundfish CDQ. If
                                                                        receiving groundfish under more than one
                                                                        CDQ number, use a separate check-in for
                                                                        each number.
(E) Exempted or Research Fishery........  (1) C/P....................  If in an exempted or research fishery,
                                                                        prior to fishing submit a separate check-
                                                                        in for each type.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  If receiving groundfish from an exempted
                                                                        or research fishery, prior to receiving
                                                                        submit a separate check-in for each
                                                                        type.
(F) Processor type......................  C/P, MS....................  If a catcher/processor and functioning
                                                                        simultaneously as a mothership in the
                                                                        same reporting area, before functioning
                                                                        as either processor type.

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(G) Change of fishing year..............  C/P, MS, SS, SFP...........  If continually active through the end of
                                                                        one fishing year and at the beginning of
                                                                        a second fishing year, submit a check-in
                                                                        for each reporting area to start the
                                                                        year on January 1.
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    (ii) Check-out report (CEASE message). Except as indicated in 
paragraph (h)(1)(iii) to this part, the operator or manager must submit 
a check-out report according to the following table:

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   Submit a separate CEASE message for            If you are a                   Within this time limit
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) COBLZ or RKCSA......................  (1) C/P using trawl gear...  Upon completion of gear retrieval for
                                                                        groundfish, submit a separate check-out
                                                                        for the COBLZ or RKCSA and another check-
                                                                        out for the area outside the COBLZ or
                                                                        RKCSA.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  If receiving groundfish harvested with
                                                                        trawl gear, upon completion of receipt
                                                                        of groundfish, submit a separate check-
                                                                        out for the COBLZ or RKCSA and another
                                                                        check-out for the area outside the COBLZ
                                                                        or RKCSA.
(B) Processor type......................  C/P, MS....................  Upon completion of simultaneous activity
                                                                        as both catcher/ processor and
                                                                        mothership, a separate check-out, one
                                                                        for catcher/processor and one for
                                                                        mothership.
(C) Gear Type...........................  (1) C/P....................  Upon completion of gear retrieval for
                                                                        groundfish, submit a separate check-out
                                                                        for each gear type for which a check-in
                                                                        was submitted.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  Upon completion of receipt of groundfish,
                                                                        submit a separate check-out for each
                                                                        gear type for which a check-in was
                                                                        submitted.
(D) CDQ.................................  (1) C/P....................  Within 24 hours after groundfish CDQ
                                                                        fishing for each CDQ group has ceased.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  Within 24 hours after receipt of
                                                                        groundfish CDQ has ceased for each CDQ
                                                                        group.
(E) Exempted or Research Fishery........  (1) C/P....................  If groundfish are caught during an
                                                                        exempted or research fishery, submit a
                                                                        separate check-out for each type for
                                                                        which a check-in was submitted.
                                          (2) MS, SS, SFP............  Upon completion of receipt of groundfish
                                                                        under an exempted or research fishery,
                                                                        submit a separate check-out for each
                                                                        type for which a check-in was submitted.
(F) Reporting Area......................  (1) C/P using longline or    Upon completion of gear retrieval and
                                           pot gear.                    within 24 hours after departing each
                                                                        reporting area.
                                          (2) C/P using trawl gear...  Within 24 hours after departing a
                                                                        reporting area but prior to checking-in
                                                                        another reporting area.
                                          (3) SS, SFP................  Within 48 hours after the end of the
                                                                        applicable weekly reporting period that
                                                                        a shoreside processor or stationary
                                                                        floating processor ceases to receive or
                                                                        process groundfish from that reporting
                                                                        area for the fishing year.
                                          (4) MS, SS, SFP............  If receipt of groundfish from a reporting
                                                                        area is expected to stop for a period of
                                                                        time (month(s)) during the fishing year
                                                                        and then start up again, may submit a
                                                                        check-out report for that reporting
                                                                        area.
                                          (5) MS.....................  Within 24 hours after receipt of fish is
                                                                        complete from that reporting area.
(G) Change of fishing year..............  C/P, MS, SS, SFP...........  If a check-out report was not previously
                                                                        submitted during a fishing year for a
                                                                        reporting area, submit on December 31, a
                                                                        check-out report for each reporting
                                                                        area.
(H) Interruption of production..........  SS, SFP....................  If receipt of groundfish from a reporting
                                                                        area is expected to stop for a period of
                                                                        time (month(s)) during the fishing year
                                                                        and then start up again, the manager may
                                                                        choose to submit a check-out report for
                                                                        that reporting area.
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    (iii) Exception, two adjacent reporting areas. If on the same day a 
catcher/processor intends to fish in two adjacent reporting areas (an 
action which would require submittal of check-out reports and check-in 
reports multiple times a day when crossing back and forth across a 
reporting area boundary), and the two reporting areas have on that day 
and time an identical fishing status for every species, the operator 
must submit to NMFS:
    (A) A check-in report to the first area prior to entering the first 
reporting area, and
    (B) A check-in report to the second area prior to entering the 
second reporting area.
    (C) If the catcher/processor remains within 10 nautical miles (18.5 
km) of the boundary between the two areas and crosses back and forth 
between the first and second reporting areas one or more times, a 
check-out report from either reporting area is not required.
    (D) If the catcher/processor proceeds in the second reporting area 
beyond 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) of the boundary between the two 
areas, the operator must submit a check-out report from the first 
reporting area.
    (2) Transit through reporting areas. The operator of a catcher/
processor or mothership is not required to submit a check-in or check-
out report if the vessel is transiting through a reporting area and is 
not fishing or receiving fish.
    (3) Required information. The operator of a mothership or catcher/
processor or the manager of a shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor must record the following information.
    (i) For each check-in and check-out report. (A) Whether an original 
or revised report;
    (B) Participant identification information (see paragraph (a)(5) of 
this section);
    (C) Representative information (see paragraph (b)(2) of this 
section);
    (D) Management program name and identifying number (if any);
    (E) If a mothership or catcher/processor, processor type and gear 
type.
    (ii) For each check-in report, mothership. (A) Date and time when 
receipt of groundfish will begin;
    (B) Position coordinates where groundfish receipt begins;
    (C) Reporting area code where gear deployment begins;
    (D) Primary and secondary target species expected to be received 
the following week. A change in intended target species within the same 
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    (iii) For each check-in report, catcher/processor. (A) Date and 
time when gear deployment will begin;
    (B) Position coordinates where gear is deployed;
    (C) Reporting area code of groundfish harvest;
    (D) Primary and secondary target species expected to be harvested 
the following week. A change in intended target species within the same 
reporting area does not require a new BEGIN message.
    (iv) For each check-in report, shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor: (A) Indicate check-in report;
    (B) Date facility will begin to receive groundfish;
    (C) Whether checking in for the first time this fishing year or 
checking in to restart receipt and processing of groundfish after 
filing a check-out report;
    (D) The product weight of all fish or fish products (including non-
groundfish) remaining at the facility (other than public cold storage) 
by species code and product code;
    (E) Whether pounds or 0.001 mt.
    (v) For each check-out report, mothership: Date, time, reporting 
area code, and position coordinates where the last receipt of 
groundfish was completed.
    (vi) For each check-out report, catcher/processor: date, time, 
reporting area code, and position coordinates where the vessel departed 
the reporting area.
    (vii) For each check-out report, shoreside processor or stationary 
floating processor: (A) Indicate check-out report;
    (B) Date facility ceased to receive or process groundfish;
    (C) The product weight of all fish or fish products (including non-
groundfish) remaining at the facility (other than public cold storage) 
by species code and product code;
    (D) Whether pounds or 0.001 mt.
    (i) Weekly Production Report (WPR)--(1) Who needs to submit a 
weekly production report? (i) Except as indicated in paragraph 
(i)(1)(iii) of this section, the operator or manager must submit a WPR 
for any week the mothership, catcher/processor, shoreside processor, or 
stationary floating processor is checked-in pursuant to paragraph 
(h)(2) of this section.
    (ii) If a vessel is operating simultaneously during a weekly 
reporting period as both a catcher/processor and a mothership, the 
operator must submit two separate WPRs for that week, one for catcher/
processor fishing activity and one for mothership fishing activity.
    (iii) Exemption. If using SPELR or software approved by the 
Regional Administrator as described in Sec. 679.5(d), a shoreside 
processor or stationary floating processor is exempt from the 
requirements to submit a WPR.
    (2) Time limit and submittal. The operator or manager must submit a 
separate WPR by FAX or electronic file to the Regional Administrator by 
1200 hours, A.1.t. on Tuesday following the end of the applicable 
weekly reporting period.
    (3) Submit separate WPR. The operator or manager must submit a 
separate WPR if:
    (i) Processor type. For each processor type if a catcher/processor 
is functioning simultaneously as a Mothership in the same reporting 
area.
    (ii) Gear type. For each gear type of harvester if groundfish are 
caught in the same reporting area using more than one gear type.
    (iii) COBLZ or RKCSA. If groundfish are caught with trawl gear, 
submit one report for fish harvested in the COBLZ or RKCSA and another 
report for fish harvested outside the COBLZ or RKCSA.
    (iv) Management Program. If groundfish are caught under a specific 
management program, submit a separate report for each program.
    (v) Reporting area. For each reporting area, except 300, 400, 550, 
or 690.
    (vi) Change of fishing year. If continually active through the end 
of one fishing year and at the beginning of a second fishing year, the 
operator or manager must submit a WPR for each reporting area:
    (A) To complete the year at midnight, December 31, if still 
conducting fishing activity regardless of where this date falls within 
the weekly reporting period.
    (B) To start the year on January 1, if still conducting fishing 
activity regardless of where this date falls within the weekly 
reporting period.
    (4) Required information. The operator or manager must record:
    (i) Whether original or revised WPR;
    (ii) Week-ending date;
    (iii) Participant identification information (see paragraph (a)(5) 
of this section);
    (iv) Representative information (see paragraph (b)(2) of this 
section);
    (v) Date (month-day-year) WPR completed;
    (vi) Management program name and identifying number (if any);
    (vii) Gear type of harvester;
    (viii) If a mothership or catcher/processor, processor type and 
crew size;
    (ix) Reporting area of harvest;
    (x) If a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, 
landings scale weights of groundfish by species and product codes and 
product designations; scale weights or fish product weights of 
groundfish by species and product codes and product designations;
    (xi) Discard or disposition weights or numbers by species and 
product codes;
    (xii) ADF&G fish ticket numbers issued to catcher vessels at 
delivery (except catcher/processors).
    (j) Daily Production Report (DPR)--(1) Notification. If the 
Regional Administrator determines that DPRs are necessary to avoid 
exceeding a groundfish TAC or prohibited species bycatch allowance, 
NMFS may require submittal of DPRs from motherships, catcher/
processors, shoreside processors and stationary floating processors for 
reporting one or more specified species, in addition to a WPR. NMFS 
will publish notification in the Federal Register specifying the 
fisheries that require DPRs and the dates that submittal of DPRs are 
required.
    (2) Applicability. (i) If a catcher/processor or mothership is 
checked in to the specified reporting area and is harvesting, 
receiving, processing, or discarding the specified species or is 
receiving reports from a catcher vessel of discard at sea of the 
specified species, the operator must submit a DPR.
    (ii) If a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor is 
receiving, processing, or discarding the specified species or is 
receiving reports from a catcher vessel of discard at sea of the 
specified species, the manager must submit a DPR.
    (iii) The operator of a catcher/processor or mothership or the 
manager of a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor must 
use a separate DPR for each gear type, processor type, and CDQ number.
    (3) Time limit and submittal. The operator or manager must submit a 
DPR by FAX to the Regional Administrator by 1200 hours, A.l.t., the day 
following each day of landings, discard, or production.
    (4) Information required. In addition to requirements described in 
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section, the operator of a catcher/
processor or mothership, or the manager of a shoreside processor or 
stationary floating processor must record the processor type.
    (k) U.S. Vessel Activity Report (VAR)--(1) Who needs to submit a 
VAR? Except as noted in paragraphs (k)(1)(iii) and (iv) of this 
section, the operator of a catcher vessel greater than 60 ft (18.3 m) 
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permit issued under this part and carrying fish or fish product onboard 
must complete and submit a VAR by FAX or electronic file to NOFE, 
Juneau, AK, before the vessel crosses the seaward boundary of the EEZ 
off Alaska or crosses the U.S.-Canadian international boundary between 
Alaska and British Columbia.
    (i) Both groundfish and IFQ fish. If a vessel is carrying both 
groundfish and IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish, the operator must submit a 
VAR in addition to a Vessel Departure Report (VDR) or a Vessel 
Clearance (VC).
    (ii) Revised VAR. If groundfish are landed at a port other than the 
one specified, submit a revised VAR showing the actual port of landing.
    (iii) Exemption: Vessel clearance. If a vessel is carrying only IFQ 
halibut or IFQ sablefish onboard and the operator has received a Vessel 
Clearance per paragraph (l)(5)(iii) of this section, a VAR is not 
required.
    (iv) Exemption: If a vessel is carrying only IFQ halibut or IFQ 
sablefish onboard and the operator has submitted a Departure Report per 
paragraph (l)(5)(iii)(B) of this section, a VAR is not required.
    (2) Information required. Whether original or revised VAR; name and 
Federal fisheries permit number of vessel; type of vessel (whether 
catcher vessel, catcher/processor, or mothership); and representative 
information (see paragraph (b)(2) of this section).
    (i) Return report. ``Return,'' for purposes of this paragraph, 
means coming back to Alaska. If the vessel is crossing into the seaward 
boundary of the EEZ off Alaska or crossing the U.S.-Canadian 
international boundary between Alaska and British Columbia into U.S. 
waters, indicate a ``return'' report and enter:
    (A) Intended Alaska port of landing (see Table 14 to this part);
    (B) Estimated date and time (hour and minute, Greenwich mean time) 
the vessel will cross;
    (C) The estimated position coordinates the vessel will cross.
    (ii) Depart report. ``Depart'' means leaving Alaska. If the vessel 
is crossing out of the seaward boundary of the EEZ off Alaska or 
crossing the U.S.-Canadian international boundary between Alaska and 
British Columbia into Canadian waters, indicate a ``depart'' report and 
enter:
    (A) The intended U.S. port of landing or country other than the 
United States;
    (B) Estimated date and time (hour and minute, Greenwich mean time) 
the vessel will cross;
    (C) The estimated position coordinates in latitude and longitude 
the vessel will cross.
    (iii) The Russian Zone. Indicate whether your vessel is returning 
from fishing in the Russian Zone or is departing to fish in the Russian 
Zone.
    (iv) Fish or fish products. For all fish or fish products 
(including non-groundfish) on board the vessel, enter: Harvest zone 
code; species codes; product codes; and total fish product weight in 
lbs or to the nearest 0.001 mt.
    (l) IFQ Recordkeeping and reporting. In addition to the 
recordkeeping and reporting requirements in this section and as 
prescribed in the annual management measures published in the Federal 
Register pursuant to Sec. 300.62 of this title, the following IFQ 
reports are required, when applicable: prior notices of landing, 
landing report, shipment report, transshipment authorization, vessel 
clearance, and IFQ departure report.
    (1) Prior notice of IFQ landing--(i) Applicability. Except as 
provided in paragraph (l)(1)(iv) of this section, the operator of any 
vessel making an IFQ landing must notify NOFE, Juneau, no fewer than 6 
hours before landing IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish, unless permission to 
commence an IFQ landing within 6 hours of notification is granted by a 
clearing officer.
    (ii) Time limits. A prior notice of landing must be made to the 
toll-free telephone number specified on the IFQ permit between the 
hours of 0600 hours, A.l.t., and 2400 hours, A.l.t.
    (iii) Information required. A prior notice of landing must include 
the following:
    (A) Vessel name and ADF&G vessel registration number;
    (B) Name and permit number of the Registered Buyer who will be 
responsible for completion and submittal of the IFQ Landing Report(s);
    (C) The location of the landing (port name or code);
    (D) The date and time (A.l.t.) that the landing will take place;
    (E) Landing directions;
    (F) Species and estimated weight (in pounds) of the IFQ halibut or 
IFQ sablefish that will be landed;
    (G) IFQ regulatory area(s) in which the IFQ halibut or IFQ 
sablefish were harvested;
    (H) IFQ permit number(s) that will be used to land the IFQ halibut 
or IFQ sablefish.
    (iv) Exemption. An IFQ landing of halibut of 500 lb or less of IFQ 
weight determined pursuant to Sec. 679.42(c)(2) and concurrent with a 
legal landing of salmon or a legal landing of lingcod harvested using 
dinglebar gear is exempt from the prior notice of landing required by 
this section.
    (v) Revision to prior notice of landing. The operator of any vessel 
wishing to land IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish before the date and time 
(A.l.t.) reported in the prior notice of landing or later than 2 hours 
after the date and time (A.l.t.) reported in the prior notice of 
landing must submit a new prior notice of IFQ landing as described in 
paragraphs (l)(1)(i) through (iii) of this section.
    (2) Landing report--(i) Applicability. (A) A Registered Buyer must 
report an IFQ landing within 6 hours after all such fish are landed and 
prior to shipment of said fish or departure of the delivery vessel from 
the landing site.
    (B) All IFQ catch retained onboard a vessel must be debited from 
the IFQ permit holder's account under which the catch was harvested.
    (C) The weight of any halibut or sablefish offshore landings made 
by a catcher/processor into product (frozen) prior to offload at the 
landing site must be properly debited from the IFQ permit holder's 
account under which the catch was harvested.
    (ii) Electronic landing report. (A) Electronic landing reports must 
be submitted to NOFE, Juneau, using magnetic strip cards issued by 
NMFS, Alaska Region, and transaction terminals with printers driven by 
custom-designed software, as provided and/or specified by NMFS, Alaska 
Region. It is the responsibility of the Registered Buyer to locate or 
procure a transaction terminal and report as required. Waivers from the 
electronic reporting requirement can only be granted in writing on a 
case-by-case basis by a local clearing officer.
    (B) The IFQ cardholder must initiate a landing report by using his 
or her own magnetic card and personal identification number (PIN).
    (C) Once landing operations have commenced, the IFQ cardholder and 
the harvesting vessel may not leave the landing site until the IFQ 
account is properly debited. The offloaded IFQ species may not be moved 
from the landing site until the IFQ landing report is received by NOFE, 
Juneau, and the IFQ cardholder's account is properly debited. A 
properly concluded transaction terminal receipt or manual landing 
report receipt received by FAX from NOFE, Juneau, constitutes 
confirmation that NOFE received the landing report and that the 
cardholder's account was properly debited. After the Registered Buyer 
enters the landing data in the transaction terminal and a receipt is 
printed, the IFQ cardholder must sign the receipt. Legible copies of 
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Buyer and the IFQ cardholder pursuant to paragraph (l)(7) of this 
section.
    (iii) Manual landing report. (A) If a waiver has been granted 
pursuant to paragraph (l)(2)(ii) of this section, manual landing 
instructions must be obtained from NOFE, Juneau, at (800)304-4846 or 
(907)586-7163. Completed manual landing reports must be submitted by 
FAX to NOFE, Juneau, at (907)586-7313.
    (B) The manual landing report must be signed by the Registered 
Buyer or his/her representative, the IFQ cardholder, and the NOFE 
representative to show that the IFQ cardholder's account was properly 
debited.
    (iv) Time limits and submittals. (A) An IFQ landing may commence 
only between 0600 hours, A.l.t., and 1800 hours, A.l.t., unless:
    (1) Permission to land at a different time is granted in advance by 
a clearing officer; or
    (2) An IFQ landing of halibut of 500 lb or less of IFQ weight 
determined pursuant to Sec. 679.42(c)(2) and concurrent with a legal 
landing of salmon or a legal landing of lingcod harvested using 
dinglebar gear.
    (B) An IFQ landing report must be completed and the IFQ account(s) 
properly debited, as defined in paragraph (l)(2)(ii)(C) of this 
section, within 6 hours after the completion of the IFQ landing.
    (v) Landing verification and inspection. Each IFQ landing and all 
fish retained on board the vessel making an IFQ landing are subject to 
verification, inspection, and sampling by authorized officers, clearing 
officers, or observers. Each IFQ halibut landing is subject to sampling 
for biological information by persons authorized by the IPHC.
    (vi) Information required. The Registered Buyer must enter accurate 
information contained in a complete IFQ landing report as follows:
    (A) Date and time (A.l.t.) of the IFQ landing;
    (B) Location of the IFQ landing (port code or if at sea, lat. and 
long.);
    (C) Name and permit number of the IFQ card holder;
    (D) Name and permit number of Registered Buyer receiving the IFQ 
species;
    (E) The harvesting vessel's name and ADF&G vessel registration 
number;
    (F) Gear type used to harvest IFQ species;
    (G) Alaska State fish ticket number(s) for the landing;
    (H) ADF&G statistical area of harvest reported by the IFQ 
cardholder;
    (I) If ADF&G statistical area is bisected by a line dividing two 
IFQ regulatory areas, the IFQ regulatory area of harvest reported by 
the IFQ cardholder;
    (J)(1) Except as indicated in paragraph (l)(2)(vi)(J)(2) of this 
section, for each ADF&G statistical area of harvest, the species codes, 
product codes, and initial accurate scale weight (in pounds) made at 
the time offloading commences for IFQ species sold and retained;
    (2) If the vessel operator is a Registered Buyer reporting the IFQ 
landing, the accurate weight of IFQ sablefish processed product 
obtained before the offload may be substituted for the initial accurate 
scale weight at time of offload.
    (K) (Effective January 1, 2002) Whether ice and slime is present on 
the fish as offloaded from the vessel (YES or NO). Fish which have been 
washed prior to weighing or which have been offloaded from refrigerated 
salt water are not eligible for a 2 percent deduction for ice and slime 
and must indicate NO SLIME & ICE.
    (L) If IFQ halibut is incidental catch concurrent with legal 
landing of salmon or concurrent with legal landing of lingcod harvested 
using dinglebar gear;
    (M) Signature of Registered Buyer representative;
    (N) Signature of IFQ/CDQ card holder.
    (vii) Manual landing report. When a waiver is issued pursuant to 
paragraph (l)(2)(ii)(A) of this section, additional information is 
required. In addition to the information required in paragraph 
(l)(2)(vi) of this section, the following information is required to 
complete a landing report using a manual landing report:
    (A) Whether the manual landing report is an original or revised;
    (B) Name, telephone number, and FAX number of individual submitting 
the manual landing report.
    (3) Shipment report--(i) Requirement. Each Registered Buyer, other 
than those conducting dockside sales must:
    (A) Except as provided in paragraph (l)(3)(i)(D) of this section, 
complete a written shipment report for each shipment or transfer of IFQ 
halibut and IFQ sablefish from that Registered Buyer before the fish 
leave the landing site.
    (B) Assure that a shipment report is submitted to, and received by, 
NOFE, Juneau, by FAX to (907) 586-7313 or mail to P.O. Box 21767, 
Juneau, AK 99802-1767, within 7 days of the date shipment commenced.
    (C) Ensure that a copy of the shipment report or a bill of lading 
containing the same information accompanies the shipment of IFQ species 
from the landing site to the first destination beyond the location of 
the IFQ landing.
    (D) A shipment report is not required for transportation of IFQ 
species directly from the landing site to a processing facility owned 
by the Registered Buyer submitting the IFQ landing report. When 
transporting the fish in this manner, the landing report receipt from 
the IFQ terminal documenting the IFQ landing must accompany the 
offloaded IFQ species. For IFQ species transported in this manner, the 
Registered Buyer must complete a shipment report for each shipment or 
transfer of IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish from the Registered Buyer's 
processing facility.
    (ii) Information required. A shipment report must specify the 
following:
    (A) Whether revised or original report;
    (B) Shipment date;
    (C) Registered Buyer name, address, FAX number, and permit number;
    (D) Signature of Registered Buyer or Registered Buyer's 
representative;
    (E) Receiver name (this is the first receiver; the purchaser, 
wholesaler, or retailer who will receive the shipment from the 
Registered Buyer) and address;
    (F) Mode of transportation and intended route;
    (G) Name of the shipping company or entity that is transporting the 
shipment.
    (1) If by air, enter the name of the airline, flight number, 
departure and arrival airport locations.
    (2) If by containerized van, enter the name of the shipping 
company, vessel transporting the van, and departure and arrival ports.
    (3) If by vessel, enter the name of the shipping company if 
applicable, name of the vessel transporting, and the departure and 
arrival ports.
    (4) If by ground transportation, enter the name of the shipping or 
trucking company, and departure and arrival locations.
    (H) Species codes and product codes of IFQ species;
    (I) Total number of production units (blocks, trays, pans, 
individual fish, boxes, or cartons; if iced, enter number of totes or 
containers);
    (J) Unit weight (weight of single production unit as listed in 
``No. of Units''); indicate whether metric tons or pounds;
    (K) Total fish product weight of shipment less packing materials; 
indicate whether metric tons or pounds.
    (iii) Revision to shipment report. Each Registered Buyer must 
ensure that, if any information on the original Shipment Report changes 
prior to the first destination of the shipment, a revised shipment 
report is submitted to NOFE, Juneau, clearly labeled ``Revised Report'' 
and that the revised shipment report be received by NOFE, Juneau, 
within 7 days of the change.
    (iv) Dockside sale or outside landing. A Registered Buyer 
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sales must issue a receipt in lieu of a shipment report, that includes 
the date of sale or transfer, the Registered Buyer permit number, and 
the fish product weight of the IFQ sablefish or halibut transferred to 
each individual receiving IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish.
    (4) Transshipment authorization. (i) No person may transship 
processed IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish between vessels without 
authorization by a clearing officer. Authorization from a clearing 
officer must be obtained for each instance of transshipment at least 24 
hours before the transshipment is intended to commence.
    (ii) Information required. To obtain a transshipment authorization, 
the vessel operator must provide the following information to the 
clearing officer:
    (A) Date and time (A.l.t.) of transshipment;
    (B) Location of transshipment;
    (C) Name and ADF&G vessel registration number of vessel offloading 
transshipment;
    (D) Name of vessel receiving the transshipment;
    (E) Product destination;
    (F) Species and product type codes;
    (G) Total product weight;
    (H) Time (A.l.t.) and date of the request;
    (I) Name, telephone number, FAX number (if any) for the person 
making the request.
    (5) Vessel clearance. (i) A vessel operator who makes an IFQ 
landing at any location other than in an IFQ regulatory area or in the 
State of Alaska must first obtain a prelanding written vessel clearance 
from a clearing officer.
    (ii) Canadian ports. A vessel operator who lands IFQ species in 
Canada must first obtain a vessel clearance from a clearing officer and 
must make an IFQ landing in Canada only at the ports of Port Hardy, 
Prince Rupert, or Vancouver, British Columbia.
    (iii) Foreign port other than Canada. A vessel operator who lands 
IFQ species in a foreign port must first obtain a vessel clearance from 
a clearing officer located at a primary port in the State of Alaska 
(see Table 14 to this part).
    (iv) Registered Buyer permit. A vessel operator obtaining an IFQ 
vessel clearance must have a Registered Buyer permit.
    (v) IFQ permits on board. A vessel operator obtaining an IFQ vessel 
clearance must ensure that one or more IFQ cardholders is on board with 
enough remaining IFQ balance to harvest amounts of IFQ fish equal to or 
greater than all IFQ halibut and IFQ sablefish on board.
    (vi) Inspection. A vessel for which a vessel operator is seeking an 
IFQ vessel clearance is subject to inspection of all fish, logbooks, 
permits, and other documents on board the vessel at the discretion of 
the clearing officer.
    (vii) Primary ports. Unless specifically authorized on a case-by-
case basis, IFQ vessel clearances will be issued only by clearing 
officers at the primary ports listed in Table 14 to this part.
    (viii) Completion of fishing. An IFQ vessel operator who obtains an 
IFQ vessel clearance may only obtain that IFQ vessel clearance after 
completion of all fishing. If any fishing takes place after issuance of 
an IFQ vessel clearance, the vessel operator must obtain a new IFQ 
vessel clearance.
    (ix) Required information. To obtain an IFQ vessel clearance, the 
vessel operator must provide the following information to the clearing 
officer:
    (A) Date, time (A.l.t.), and location of requested IFQ vessel 
clearance;
    (B) Vessel name and ADF&G vessel registration number;
    (C) Name and permit numbers of IFQ permits used to harvest IFQ 
species on board;
    (D) Vessel operator's IFQ Registered Buyer permit number;
    (E) Estimated total weight of IFQ halibut on board (lb/kg/mt);
    (F) Estimated total weight of IFQ sablefish on board;
    (G) IFQ areas of harvest;
    (H) Intended date, time (A.l.t.) and location of landing;
    (I) Signature of vessel operator.
    (x) First landing of any species. A vessel operator must land and 
report all IFQ species on board at the same time and place as the first 
landing of any species harvested during an IFQ fishing trip.
    (xi) IFQ landing after vessel clearance. A vessel operator having 
been granted an IFQ vessel clearance must be the Registered Buyer 
responsible for the IFQ landing and must submit the IFQ landing report, 
required under this section, for all IFQ halibut, IFQ sablefish and 
products thereof that are on board the vessel at the first landing of 
any fish from the vessel.
    (xii) IFQ departure report. (A) A vessel operator intending to 
obtain an IFQ vessel clearance for the vessel at a port in a state 
other than Alaska must first provide an IFQ departure report, by 
telephone, to NOFE, Juneau, at 907-586-7225 or 800-304-4846. The IFQ 
departure report may only be submitted after completion of all IFQ 
fishing and prior to departing the waters of the EEZ adjacent to the 
jurisdictional waters of the State of Alaska, the territorial sea of 
the State of Alaska, or the internal waters of the State of Alaska. The 
vessel operator must provide the following information:
    (B) Vessel name and ADF&G registration number;
    (C) Name of vessel operator submitting the IFQ departure report;
    (D) Total weight on board of IFQ halibut and total weight of IFQ 
sablefish;
    (E) Intended date, time (A.l.t.), and location for obtaining an IFQ 
vessel clearance.
    (6) Record retention. A copy of all reports and receipts required 
by this section must be retained by Registered Buyers and be made 
available for inspection by an authorized officer or a clearing officer 
for a period of 3 years.
    (7) * * *
    (i) * * *
    (D) The registered buyer must complete an IFQ buyer report and 
submit it by mail, fax, or electronic submittal to the following 
address: Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, Attn: RAM Program, P.O. 
Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668, FAX: (907) 586-7354.
* * * * *
    (m) Consolidated weekly ADF&G fish tickets from motherships--(1) 
Requirement. (i) The operator of a mothership must ensure that any 
groundfish catch received by a mothership from a catcher vessel that is 
issued a Federal fisheries permit under Sec. 679.4 is recorded for each 
weekly reporting period on a minimum of one ADF&G groundfish fish 
ticket. The operator of a mothership may create a fish ticket for each 
delivery of catch. (An ADF&G fish ticket is further described at Alaska 
Administrative Code, 5 AAC Chapter 39.130.) A copy of the Alaska 
Administrative Code can be obtained from the Alaska Regional Office, 
see Sec. 600.502 of this chapter, Table 1.
    (ii) The operator of a mothership must ensure that the information 
listed in paragraph (m)(2)(iii) of this section is written legibly or 
imprinted from the catcher vessel operator's State of Alaska, 
Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission (CFEC) permit card on the 
consolidated weekly ADF&G fish ticket.
    (2) Information required from the catcher vessel. (i) The operator 
of a catcher vessel delivering groundfish to a mothership must complete 
the parts of the fish ticket listed in paragraph (m)(2)(iii) of this 
section, sign the fish ticket, and provide it to the operator of the 
mothership receiving groundfish harvest for submittal to ADF&G.
    (ii) If there is a change in the operator of the same catcher 
vessel during the same weekly reporting period, complete a fish ticket 
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    (iii) Information required: (A) Name and ADF&G vessel registration 
number of the catcher vessel;
    (B) Name, signature and CFEC permit number of CFEC permit holder 
aboard the catcher vessel;
    (C) The six-digit ADF&G groundfish statistical area denoting the 
actual area of catch;
    (D) Write in gear type used by the catcher vessel, whether hook and 
line, pot, nonpelagic trawl, pelagic trawl, jig, troll, or other.
    (3) Information required from the mothership. The operator of a 
mothership must ensure that the following information is written 
legibly or imprinted from the mothership's CFEC processor plate card on 
the consolidated weekly ADF&G fish ticket:
    (i) Mothership name and ADF&G processor code;
    (ii) Enter ``FLD'' for port of landing or vessel transshipped to;
    (iii) Signature of the mothership operator;
    (iv) The week-ending date of the weekly reporting period during 
which the mothership received the groundfish from the catcher vessel;
    (v) Species code for each species from Table 2 to this part, except 
species codes 120, 144, 168, 169, or 171;
    (vi) The product code from Table 1 to this part (in most cases, 
this will be product code 01, whole fish);
    (vii) ADF&G 6-digit statistical area in which groundfish were 
harvested. If there are more than eight statistical areas for a fish 
ticket in a weekly reporting period, complete a second fish ticket. 
These statistical areas are defined in a set of charts obtained at no 
charge from Alaska Commercial Fisheries Management & Development 
Division, Department of Fish and Game, 211 Mission Road, Kodiak, AK, 
99615-6399;
    (viii) The landed weight of each species to the nearest pound. If 
working in metric tons, convert to pounds using 2204.6 lb = 1 mt before 
recording on fish ticket.
    (4) Time limit and submittal. (i) The operator of a mothership must 
complete a minimum of one ADF&G groundfish fish ticket for each catcher 
vessel by 1200 hours, A.l.t., on Tuesday following the end of the 
applicable weekly reporting period.
    (ii) The operator of a mothership must ensure copy distribution 
within the indicated time limit or retention of the multiple copies of 
each consolidated weekly ADF&G groundfish fish ticket (G series) as 
follows:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 If fish ticket color  is .
            . .                Distribute to . . .        Time limit
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) White..................  Retained by             N/A
                              Mothership, see
                              paragraph
                              (a)(13)(ii)(D)(6).
(B) Yellow.................  Alaska Commercial       Within 45 days
                              Fisheries Management    after landings are
                              & Development           received.
                              Division, Department
                              of Fish & Game, 211
                              Mission Road, Kodiak,
                              AK, 99615-6399.
(C) Pink...................  Catcher vessel          1200 hours, A.l.t.,
                              delivering groundfish   on Tuesday
                              to the mothership.      following the end
                                                      of the applicable
                                                      weekly reporting
                                                      period.
(D) Golden rod.............  Extra copy............  N/A
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (n) Groundfish CDQ fisheries--(1) CDQ delivery report--(i) Who must 
submit a CDQ delivery report? The manager of each shoreside processor 
and stationary floating processor taking deliveries of groundfish CDQ 
or PSQ species from catcher vessels must submit for each delivery a CDQ 
delivery report, unless using the SPELR described at paragraph (e) of 
this section to submit the required CDQ information.
    (ii) Time limit and submittal. The manager as defined at paragraph 
(n)(1)(i) of this section must submit to the Regional Administrator a 
CDQ delivery report within 24 hours of completion of each delivery of 
groundfish CDQ or PSQ species to the processor.
    (iii) Information required. The manager as defined at paragraph 
(n)(1)(i) of this section must record whether the report is original or 
a revision and the following information on each CDQ delivery report:
    (A) CDQ group information. CDQ group number as defined at 
Sec. 679.2 and CDQ group name or acronym.
    (B) Processor information. (1) Name and federal processor permit 
number of the processor as defined at paragraph (n)(1)(i) of this 
section taking delivery of the CDQ catch.
    (2) Date delivery report submitted.
    (C) Vessel and catch information. (1) Enter the name, Federal 
Fisheries Permit number if applicable, and ADF&G vessel registration 
number of the vessel delivering CDQ catch. Write ``unnamed'' if the 
vessel has no name;
    (2) Enter the delivery date, date fishing began, harvest gear type, 
and Federal reporting area of CDQ harvest. If caught with trawl gear, 
check appropriate box(es) to indicate if catch was made in the CVOA or 
the COBLZ.
    (D) Groundfish CDQ Species in this delivery. Enter weight by 
species codes and product codes as defined in Tables 1 and 2 to this 
part, respectively, of groundfish CDQ species that were delivered. 
Report the weight of each CDQ species in metric tons to at least the 
nearest 0.001 mt.
    (E) Halibut CDQ, halibut IFQ and sablefish IFQ in this delivery. 
For nontrawl vessels only, enter the product code and product weight 
for any halibut CDQ, halibut IFQ, and sablefish IFQ in this catch. 
Submit this same information to the Regional Administrator on an IFQ 
landing report (see paragraph (l)(2) of this section).
    (F) PSQ information. For halibut, enter the species code and the 
weight to the nearest 0.001 mt. For salmon or crab, enter the species 
code and the number of animals.
    (1) Enter PSQ species delivered and discarded from processor by 
species code and weight or numbers.
    (2) Enter at-sea discards of PSQ for vessels without observers by 
species code and weight or numbers.
    (2) CDQ catch report--(i) Who must submit a CDQ catch report? The 
CDQ representative must submit a CDQ catch report for all groundfish 
catch made by vessels groundfish CDQ fishing as defined at Sec. 679.2 
or for any groundfish harvested by vessels greater than or equal to 60 
ft (18.3 m) LOA while halibut CDQ fishing and delivered to a shoreside 
processor, to a stationary floating processor, or to a mothership.
    (ii) Time limit and submittal. Submit to the Regional Administrator 
a CDQ catch report:
    (A) Within 7 days of the date CDQ catch was delivered by a catcher 
vessel to a shoreside processor, stationary floating processor, or 
mothership.
    (B) Within 7 days of the date gear used to catch CDQ was retrieved 
by a catcher/processor.
    (iii) Information required, all CDQ catch reports. Record whether 
an original or revised report and the following information on each CDQ 
catch report:
    (A) Vessel type. Indicate one appropriate vessel/gear/delivery 
type.
    (B) Vessel catch information. (1) Enter the name, Federal fisheries 
permit number if applicable, and ADF&G vessel registration number of 
the vessel

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delivering CDQ catch. Write ``unnamed'' if the vessel has no name.
    (2) Reporting area. Enter reporting area in which CDQ catch 
occurred. If a set occurs in more than one area, record the area code 
where gear retrieval was completed.
    (3) Gear type. Circle gear type used to harvest CDQ catch. If 
caught with trawl gear, check appropriate box(es) to indicate if catch 
was made in the CVOA or the COBLZ.
    (C) CDQ group information. Enter CDQ number as defined at 
Sec. 679.2, CDQ group name or acronym, and date report submitted to 
NMFS.
    (iv) Catch and delivery Information: catcher vessels retaining all 
groundfish CDQ and delivering to shoreside processors or stationary 
floating processors (Option 1 in the CDP). Record the following 
information on each applicable CDQ catch report:
    (A) Delivery information. Name and Federal processor permit number 
of the shoreside processor or the stationary floating processor taking 
delivery of the CDQ catch; date catch delivered to processor; and date 
fishing began on this trip.
    (B) Catch information, groundfish CDQ species. Report the weight in 
metric tons to at least the nearest 0.001 mt for each groundfish CDQ 
species retrieved by a catcher/processor or delivered to a processor as 
defined in paragraph (n)(1)(i) of this section by product code and 
species code as defined in Tables 1 and 2 to this part, respectively.
    (C) Catch information, halibut CDQ, halibut IFQ and sablefish IFQ. 
For non-trawl vessels only, enter the product code as defined in Table 
1 to this part and product weight in metric tons to at least the 
nearest 0.001 mt for any halibut CDQ, halibut IFQ, and sablefish IFQ in 
the CDQ delivery. Submit this same information to the Regional 
Administrator on an IFQ landing report (see Sec. 679.5(l)(2)).
    (D) Mortality information, salmon and crab PSQ. For salmon or crab, 
enter the species code, as defined in Table 2 to this part, and the 
number of animals.
    (E) Mortality information, halibut PSQ. For halibut PSQ catch, 
enter the round weight to the nearest 0.001 mt, mortality rate, and 
overall halibut mortality in metric tons to the nearest 0.001 mt. Use 
the target fishery designations and halibut bycatch mortality rates in 
the annual final specifications published in the Federal Register under 
Sec. 679.20(c).
    (v) Catch and delivery information: catcher/processors, catcher 
vessels delivering unsorted codends to motherships, or catcher vessels 
(with observers) using nontrawl gear and discarding groundfish CDQ at 
sea (Option 2 in the CDP). Record the following information on each 
applicable CDQ catch report.
    (A) Delivery information. (1) If a catcher vessel (with observers) 
using nontrawl gear, discarding groundfish CDQ at sea, and delivering 
to a shoreside processor or stationary floating processor, enter name 
and Federal processor permit number of the shoreside processor or the 
stationary floating processor, date catch delivered, and date fishing 
began on this trip.
    (2) If a catcher vessel delivering unsorted codends to a 
mothership, enter the mothership name and Federal fisheries permit 
number, observer's haul number for this catch, and date codend is 
completely onboard the mothership as determined by the Level 2 
observer.
    (3) If a catcher/processor, the observer's haul number for this 
catch, and the date on which the gear was retrieved as determined by 
the Level 2 observer.
    (B) Catch information, groundfish CDQ species. (See paragraph 
(n)(2)(iv)(B) of this section).
    (C) Catch information, halibut IFQ/CDQ and sablefish IFQ (See 
paragraph (n)(2)(iv)(C) of this section).
    (D) Mortality information, salmon and crab prohibited species. (See 
paragraph (n)(2)(iv)(D) of this section).
    (E) Mortality information, halibut PSQ. (See paragraph 
(n)(2)(iv)(E) of this section).
    (o) Catcher vessel cooperative pollock catch report--(1) 
Applicability. The designated representative of each AFA inshore 
processor catcher vessel cooperative must submit to the Regional 
Administrator a catcher vessel cooperative pollock catch report 
detailing each delivery of pollock harvested under the allocation made 
to that cooperative. The owners of the member catcher vessels in the 
cooperative are jointly responsible for compliance and must ensure that 
the designated representative complies with the applicable 
recordkeeping and reporting requirements of this section.
    (2) Time limits and submittal. (i) The cooperative pollock catch 
report must be submitted by one of the following methods:
    (A) An electronic data file in a format approved by NMFS; or
    (B) By FAX.
    (ii) The cooperative pollock catch report must be received by the 
Regional Administrator by 1200 hours, A.l.t. 1 week after the date of 
completion of delivery.
    (3) Information required. The cooperative pollock catch report must 
contain the following information:
    (i) Cooperative account number;
    (ii) Catcher vessel ADF&G number;
    (iii) Inshore processor Federal processor permit number;
    (iv) Delivery date;
    (v) Amount of pollock (in lb) delivered plus weight of at-sea 
pollock discards;
    (vi) ADF&G fish ticket number.
    (p) Commercial Operator's Annual Report (COAR)--(1) Requirement. 
The owner of a mothership or catcher/processor must annually complete 
and submit to ADF&G the appropriate Forms A through M and COAR 
certification page for each year in which the mothership or catcher/
processor was issued a Federal Fisheries permit. The owner of a 
mothership must include all fish received and processed during the 
year, including fish received from an associated buying station. The 
ADF&G COAR is further described under Alaska Administrative Code (5 AAC 
39.130) (see Sec. 679.3(b)(2)).
    (2) Time limit and submittal of COAR. The owner of a mothership or 
catcher/processor must submit to ADF&G the appropriate Forms A through 
M and COAR certification page by April 1 of the year following the year 
of issuance of a Federal Fisheries permit to the following address: 
Alaska Department of Fish & Game, Division of Commercial Fisheries, 
Attn: COAR, P.O. Box 25526, Juneau, Alaska 99802-5526.
    (3) Information required, certification page. The owner of a 
mothership or catcher/processor must:
    (i) Enter the company name and address, including street, city, 
state, and zip code; also seasonal mailing address, if applicable.
    (ii) Enter the vessel name and ADF&G processor code.
    (iii) Check YES or NO to indicate whether fishing activity occurred 
conducted during the appropriate year.
    (iv) If response to paragraph (p)(3)(iii) of this section is YES, 
complete the applicable forms of the COAR (see table 18 to this part) 
and complete and sign the certification page.
    (v) If response to paragraph (p)(3)(iii) of this section is NO, 
complete and sign only the certification page.
    (vi) Sign and enter printed or typed name, e-mail address, title, 
telephone number, and FAX number of owner.
    (vii) Enter printed or typed name, e-mail address, and telephone 
number of alternate contact.
    (4) Buying information (exvessel), Forms A(1-3), C(1-2), E, G, I(1-
2), and K--(i) Requirement. The owner of a mothership (if the first 
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fish) must complete and submit the appropriate COAR buying forms (A(1-
3), C(1-2), E, G, I(1-2), and K) for all information for each species 
purchased from fishermen during the applicable year.
    (ii) Buying information required. The owner of the mothership must 
record the following information on the appropriate COAR buying forms:
    (A) Species name and code (see table 2 to this part).
    (B) Area purchased (see table 16 to this part).
    (C) Gear code (see table 15 to this part).
    (D) Delivery code (form G only) (see table 1 to this part).
    (E) Total weight (to the nearest lb) purchased from fishermen.
    (F) Total amount paid to fishermen, including all post-season 
adjustments and/or bonuses and any credit received by fishermen for gas 
expenses, ice, delivery premiums, and other miscellaneous expenses.
    (G) Price per pound. If additional adjustments are made after this 
report has been filed, the owner must check the ``$ not final'' box, 
and submit Form M when these adjustments are paid. Do not include fish 
purchased from another processor.
    (5) Production forms, Forms B(1-6), D, F, H, J(1-2), and K). For 
purposes of this paragraph, the total wholesale value is the amount 
that the processor receives for the finished product (free on board 
pricing mothership or catcher/processor). For products finished but not 
yet sold (still held in inventory), calculate the estimated value using 
the average price received to date for that product.
    (i) Requirement--(A) Mothership. The owner of a mothership must 
record and submit the appropriate COAR production forms (B(1-6), D, F, 
H, J(1-2), and K) for all production that occurred for each species 
during the applicable year:
    (1) That were purchased from fishermen on the grounds and/or 
dockside, including both processed and unprocessed seafood.
    (2) That were then either processed on the mothership or exported 
out of the State of Alaska.
    (B) Catcher/processor. The owner of a catcher/processor must record 
and submit the appropriate COAR production forms (B(1-6), D, F, H, J(1-
2), and K) for each species harvested during the applicable year that 
were then either processed on the vessel or exported out of the State 
of Alaska.
    (ii) Information required, non-canned production.
    (A) Enter area of processing (see table 16 to this part). List 
production of Canadian-harvested fish separately.
    (B) Processed product. Processed product must be described by 
entering three codes:
    (1) Process prefix code (see table 17 to this part).
    (2) Process suffix code (see table 17 to this part).
    (3) Product code (see table 1 to this part).
    (C) Total net weight. Enter total weight in pounds of the finished 
product.
    (D) Total value($). Enter the total wholesale value of the finished 
product.
    (E) Enter price per pound of the finished product.
    (iii) Information required, canned production. Complete an entry 
for each can size produced:
    (A) Enter area of processing (see table 16 to this part).
    (B) Process 51 or 52. Enter conventional canned code (51) or 
smoked, conventional canned code (52).
    (C) Total value($). Enter the total wholesale value of the finished 
product.
    (D) Enter can size in ounces, to the hundredth of an ounce.
    (E) Enter number of cans per case.
    (F) Enter number of cases.
    (6) Custom production forms, Form L(1-2)--(i) Requirement. The 
owner of a mothership or catcher/processor must record and submit COAR 
production form L(1-2) for each species in which custom production was 
done by the mothership or catcher/processor for another processor and 
for each species in which custom production was done for the mothership 
or catcher/processor by another processor.
    (ii) Custom-production by mothership or catcher/processor for 
another processor. If the mothership or catcher/processor custom-
processed fish or shellfish for another processor during the applicable 
year, the owner of the mothership or catcher/processor must list the 
processor name and ADF&G processor code (if known) to describe that 
processor, but must not include any of that production in production 
form L(1-2).
    (iii) Custom-production by another processor for mothership or 
catcher/processor. If a processor custom-processed fish or shellfish 
for the mothership or catcher/processor during the applicable year, the 
owner of the mothership or catcher/processor must use a separate page 
to list each processor and must include the following information.
    (A) Custom fresh/frozen miscellaneous production. The owner of a 
mothership or catcher/processor must list the following information to 
describe production intended for wholesale/retail market and that are 
not frozen for canning later:
    (1) Species name and code (see Table 2 to this part).
    (2) Area of processing (see Table 16 to this part).
    (3) Processed product. Processed product must be entered using 
three codes:
    (i) Process prefix code (see Table 17 to this part).
    (ii) Process suffix code (see Table 17 to this part).
    (iii) Product code (see Table 1 to this part).
    (4) Total net weight. Enter total weight in pounds of the finished 
product.
    (5) Total wholesale value($). Enter the total wholesale value of 
the finished product.
    (B) Custom canned production. The owner of a mothership or catcher/
processor must list the following information to describe each can size 
produced in custom canned production:
    (1) Species name and code (see Table 2 to this part).
    (2) Area of processing (see Table 16 to this part).
    (3) Process 51 or 52. Enter conventional canned code (51) or 
smoked, conventional canned code (52).
    (4) Total wholesale value($). Enter the total wholesale value of 
the finished product.
    (5) Can size in ounces, to the hundredth of an ounce.
    (6) Number of cans per case.
    (7) Number of cases.
    (7) Fish buying retro payments/post-season adjustments, Form M--(i) 
Requirement. The owner of a mothership must record and submit COAR 
production Form M to describe additional adjustments and/or bonuses 
awarded to a fisherman, including credit received by fishermen for gas 
expenses, ice, delivery premiums, and other miscellaneous expenses.
    (ii) Information required. (A) Enter species name and code (see 
Table 2 to this part).
    (B) Enter area purchased (see Table 16 to this part).
    (C) Enter gear code (see Table 16 to this part).
    (D) Enter total pounds purchased from fisherman.
    (E) Enter total amount paid to fishermen (base + adjustment).
    5. In Sec. 679.7, paragraphs (a)(10) and (a)(11) are revised to 
read as follows:


Sec. 679.7  Prohibitions.

* * * * *
    (a) * * *

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    (10) Recordkeeping and reporting. (i) Fail to comply with or fail 
to ensure compliance with requirements in Sec. 679.4 or Sec. 679.5.
    (ii) Alter, erase, or mutilate any permit, card or document issued 
under Sec. 679.4 or Sec. 679.5.
    (iii) Fail to submit or submit inaccurate information on, any 
report, application, or statement required under this part.
    (iv) Intentionally submit false information on any report, 
application, or statement required under this part.
    (11) Buying station--(i) Tender vessel. Use a catcher vessel or 
catcher/processor as a tender vessel before offloading all groundfish 
or groundfish product harvested or processed by that vessel.
    (ii) Associated processor. Function as a vessel or land-based 
buying station without an associated processor.
* * * * *
    6. In Sec. 679.21, paragraphs (b)(1), (e)(1)(ii), and (e)(1)(iii) 
are revised to read as follows:


Sec. 679.21  Prohibited species bycatch management.

* * * * *
    (b) General. (1) See Sec. 679.2 for definition of prohibited 
species.
* * * * *
    (e) . . .
    (1) . . .
    (ii) Red king crab in Zone 1. The PSC limit of red king crab caught 
by trawl vessels while engaged in directed fishing for groundfish in 
Zone 1 during any fishing year will be specified annually by NMFS, 
after consultation with the Council, based on abundance and spawning 
biomass of red king crab using the criteria set out under paragraphs 
(e)(1)(iii)(A) through (C) of this section. The following table refers 
to the PSC limits for red king crab that you must follow in Zone 1:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
   When the number of mature
  female red king crab .  .  .    The zone 1 PSC limit will  be .  .  .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(A) Is at or below the           32,000 red king crab.
 threshold of 8.4 million
 mature crab or the effective
 spawning biomass is less than
 or equal to 14.5 million lb
 (6,577 mt).
(B) Is above the threshold of    97,000 red king crab.
 8.4 million mature crab and
 the effective spawning biomass
 is greater than 14.5 but less
 than 55 million lb (24,948 mt).
(C) Is above the threshold of    197,000 red king crab.
 8.4 million mature crab and
 the effective spawning biomass
 is equal to or greater than 55
 million lb.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (iii) Tanner crab (C. bairdi). The PSC limit of C. bairdi crabs 
caught by trawl vessels while engaged in directed fishing for 
groundfish in Zones 1 and 2 during any fishing year will be specified 
annually by NMFS under paragraph (e)(6) of this section, based on total 
abundance of C. bairdi crabs as indicated by the NMFS annual bottom 
trawl survey, using the criteria set out under paragraphs 
(e)(1)(iii)(A) and (B) of this section.
    (A) The following table refers to the PSC limits for C. bairdi that 
you must follow in Zone 1:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 When the total abundance of C. bairdi
             crabs is . . .                The PSC limit will be . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) 150 million animals or less........  0.5 percent of the total
                                          abundance minus 20,000
                                          animals.
(2) Over 150 million to 270 million      730,000 animals.
 animals.
(3) Over 270 million to 400 million      830,000 animals.
 animals.
(4) Over 400 million animals...........  980,000 animals.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    (B) This table refers to the PSC limits for C. bairdi that you must 
follow in Zone 2.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
 When the total abundance of C. bairdi
             crabs is . . .                The PSC limit will be . . .
------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1) 175 million animals or less........  1.2 percent of the total
                                          abundance, minus 30,000
                                          animals.
(2) Over 175 million to 290 million      2,070,000 animals.
 animals.
(3) Over 290 million to 400 million      2,520,000 animals.
 animals.
(4) Over 400 million animals...........  2,970,000 animals.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *
    7. In Sec. 679.22, paragraph (a)(11)(iv)(A) is added and reserved, 
and paragraph (a)(11)(iv)(B) is added; and paragraph
    (b)(3)(iii)(A) is added and reserved, and paragraph (b)(3)(iii)(B) 
is added to read as follows:


Sec. 679.22  Closures.

    (a) . . .
    (11) . . .
    (iv) . . .
    (A) [Reserved]
    (B) The SCA is described in Figure 20 to this part.
* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (iii) * * *
    (A) [Reserved]
    (B) The SSCA is described in Figure 19 to this part.
* * * * *
    8. In Sec. 679.24, paragraph (b)(2) is removed and reserved; 
paragraph (a) heading and paragraphs (a)(1) and (e)(1) are revised to 
read as follows:


Sec. 679.24  Gear limitations.

* * * * *
    (a) Marking of hook-and-line, longline pot, and pot-and-line gear. 
(1) All hook-and-line, longline pot, and pot-and-line marker buoys 
carried on board or used by any vessel regulated under this part shall 
be marked with the following:
    (i) The vessel's name; and
    (ii) The vessel's Federal fisheries permit number; or
    (iii) The vessel's ADF&G vessel registration number
* * * * *
    (e) * * *
    (1) Applicability. The operator of a vessel who is required to 
obtain a Federal fisheries permit under Sec. 679.4(b)(1) must comply 
with the seabird avoidance measures in paragraphs (e)(2) and (e)(3) of 
this section while fishing with hook-and-line gear in the BSAI, in the 
GOA, or in waters of the State of Alaska that are shoreward of the BSAI 
and the GOA.
* * * * *
    9. In Sec. 679.31, paragraph (d) is revised to read as follows:

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Sec. 679.31  CDQ reserves.

* * * * *
    (d) Crab CDQ reserves. King and Tanner crab species in the Bering 
Sea and Aleutian Islands Area that have a guideline harvest level 
specified by the State of Alaska that is available for commercial 
harvest are apportioned to a crab CDQ reserve of 7.5 percent.
* * * * *


Sec. 679.32  [Amended]

    10. In Sec. 679.32, paragraph (a)(2) is removed and the designation 
for paragraph (a)(1) is removed.
    11. In Sec. 679.40, paragraphs (a)(2)(i)(C) and (D) are added to 
read as follows:


Sec. 679.40  Sablefish and halibut QS.

* * * * *
    (a) * * *
    (2) * * *
    (i) * * *
    (C) Who is a citizen of the United States at the time of 
application for QS.
    (D) Who is a corporation, partnership, association, or other entity 
that would have qualified to document a fishing vessel as a vessel of 
the United States during the QS qualifying years of 1988, 1989, and 
1990.
* * * * *


Sec. 679.41  [Amended]

    12. In Sec. 679.41, paragraph (i)(2) is removed; and paragraph 
(i)(3) is redesignated as paragraph (i)(2).
    13. In Sec. 679.42, paragraph (c)(2) is revised and paragraph 
(c)(3) is added to read as follows:


Sec. 679.42  Limitations on use of QS and IFQ.

* * * * *
    (c) Requirements and deductions. * * *
    (2) NMFS shall use the following sources of information to debit a 
CDQ or IFQ account. A CDQ or IFQ account will be debited as indicated 
in Table 3 to this part.
    (i) Except as provided in Sec. 679.5(l)(2)(vi)(J)(2), if offload of 
unprocessed CDQ or IFQ halibut or IFQ sablefish from a vessel, the 
scale weight of the halibut or sablefish product actually measured at 
the time of offload, as required by Sec. 679.5(l)(2)(vi) to be included 
in the IFQ/CDQ landing report.
    (ii) If offload of processed IFQ & CDQ halibut or IFQ sablefish 
from a vessel, the scale weight of the halibut or sablefish processed 
product actually measured at or before the time of offload. If the 
product scale weights are taken before the time of offload, then the 
species and actual product weight of each box or container must be 
visibly marked on the outside of each container to facilitate 
enforcement inspection.
    (3) All IFQ catch onboard a vessel must be debited from the IFQ 
permit holder's account under which the catch was harvested.
* * * * *
    14. In part 679, Figure 3b, ``Coordinates,'' is revised, and 
Figures 19 and 20 are added to read as follows:

                      Figure 3 to Part 679.--Gulf of Alaska Statistical and Reporting Areas
                                                 b. Coordinates
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
610.......................................  Western GOA Regulatory Area, Shumagin District. Along
                                             the south side of the Aleutian Islands, including
                                             those waters south of Nichols Point (54 deg.51'30" N
                                             lat) near False Pass, and straight lines between the
                                             islands and the Alaska Peninsula connecting the
                                             following coordinates in the order listed: 52
                                             deg.49.18' N, 169 deg.40.47' W; 52 deg.49.24' N, 169
                                             deg.07.10' W; 53 deg.23.13' N, 167 deg.50.50' W; 53
                                             deg.18.95' N, 167 deg.51.06' W; 53 deg.58.97' N, 166
                                             deg.16.50' W; 54 deg.02.69' N, 166 deg.02.93' W; 54
                                             deg.07.69' N, 165 deg.39.74' W; 54 deg.08.40' N, 165
                                             deg.38.29' W; 54 deg.11.71' N, 165 deg.23.09' W; 54
                                             deg.23.74'' N, 164 deg.44.73' W; and southward to
                                             the limits of the US EEZ as described in the current
                                             editions of NOAA chart INT 813 (Bering Sea, Southern
                                             Part) and NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of North
                                             America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass), between 170
                                             deg.00' W long and 159 deg.00' W long.
620.......................................  Central GOA Regulatory Area, Chirikof District. Along
                                             the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, between 159
                                             deg.00' W long and 154 deg.00' W long, and southward
                                             to the limits of the US EEZ as described in the
                                             current edition of NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of
                                             North America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass).
630.......................................  Central GOA Regulatory Area, Kodiak District. Along
                                             the south side of continental Alaska, between 154
                                             deg.00' W long and 147 deg.00' W long, and southward
                                             to the limits of the US EEZ as described in the
                                             current edition of NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of
                                             North America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass).
                                             Excluding area 649.
640.......................................  Eastern GOA Regulatory Area, West Yakutat District.
                                             Along the south side of continental Alaska, between
                                             147 deg.00' W long and 140 deg.00' W long, and
                                             southward to the limits of the US EEZ, as described
                                             in the current edition of NOAA chart 500 (West Coast
                                             of North America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass).
                                             Excluding area 649.
649.......................................  Prince William Sound. Includes those waters of the
                                             State of Alaska inside the base line as specified in
                                             Alaska State regulations at 5 AAC 28.200.
650.......................................  Eastern GOA Regulatory Area, Southeast Outside
                                             District. East of 140 deg.00' W long and southward
                                             to the limits of the US EEZ as described in the
                                             current edition of NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of
                                             North America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass).
                                             Excluding area 659.
659.......................................  Eastern GOA Regulatory Area, Southeast Inside
                                             District. As specified in Alaska State regulations
                                             at 5 AAC 28.105(a) (1) and (2).
690.......................................  GOA outside the U.S. EEZ as described in the current
                                             editions of NOAA chart INT 813 (Bering Sea, Southern
                                             Part) and NOAA chart 500 (West Coast of North
                                             America, Dixon Entrance to Unimak Pass).
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Note: A statistical area is the part of a reporting area contained in the EEZ.

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    15. In part 679, Tables 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 are revised, 
Tables 16 through 18 are added and reserved, and Table 19 is added to 
read as follows:

            Table 1 to Part 679.--Product and Delivery Codes
   [These codes describe the condition of the fish at the point it is
                          weighed and recorded]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    Product description                          Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                            General Use Codes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Belly flaps. Flesh in region of pelvic and pectoral fins              19
 and behind head (ancillary only)..........................
Bled only. Throat, or isthmus, slit to allow blood to drain           03
Bled fish destined for fish meal (includes offsite                    42
 production). Do Not Record on PTR.........................
Bones (if meal, report as 32) (ancillary only).............           39
Butterfly, no backbone. Head removed, belly slit, viscera             37
 and most of backbone removed; fillets attached............
Cheeks. Muscles on sides of head (ancillary only)..........           17
Chins. Lower jaw (mandible), muscles, and flesh (ancillary            18
 only).....................................................
Fillets, deep-skin. Meat with skin, adjacent meat with                24
 silver lining, and ribs removed from sides of body behind
 head and in front of tail, resulting in thin fillets......
Fillets, skinless/boneless. Meat with both skin and ribs              23
 removed, from sides of body behind head and in front of
 tail......................................................
Fillets with ribs, no skin. Meat with ribs with skin                  22
 removed, from sides of body behind head and in front of
 tail......................................................
Fillets with skin and ribs. Meat and skin with ribs                   20
 attached, from sides of body behind head and in front of
 tail......................................................
Fillets with skin, no ribs. Meat and skin with ribs                   21
 removed, from sides of body behind head and in front of
 tail......................................................
Fish meal. Meal from whole fish or fish parts; includes               32
 bone meal.................................................
Fish oil. Rendered oil from whole fish or fish parts Record           33
 only oil destined for sale and not oil stored or burned
 for fuel onboard..........................................
Gutted, head on. Belly slit and viscera removed............           04
Headed and gutted, with roe................................           06
Headed and gutted, Western cut. Head removed just in front            07
 of the collar bone, and viscera removed...................
Headed and gutted, Eastern cut. Head removed just behind              08
 the collar bone, and viscera removed......................
Headed and gutted, tail removed. Head removed usually in              10
 front of collar bone, and viscera and tail removed........
Heads. Heads only, regardless where severed from body                 16
 (ancillary only)..........................................
Kirimi (Steak) Head removed either in front or behind the             11
 collar bone, viscera removed, and tail removed by cuts
 perpendicular to the spine, resulting in a steak..........
Mantles, octopus or squid. Flesh after removal of viscera             36
 and arms..................................................
Milt. (in sacs, or testes) (ancillary only)................           34
Minced. Ground flesh.......................................           31
Other retained product. If product is not listed on this              97
 table, enter code 97 and write a description with product
 recovery rate next to it in parentheses...................
Pectoral girdle. Collar bone and associated bones,                    15
 cartilage and flesh.......................................
Roe. Eggs, either loose or in sacs, or skeins (ancillary              14
 only).....................................................
Salted and split. Head removed, belly slit, viscera                   12
 removed, fillets cut from head to tail but remaining
 attached near tail Product salted.........................
Stomachs. Includes all internal organs (ancillary only)....           35
Surimi. Paste from fish flesh and additives................           30
Whole fish/meal. Whole fish destined for meal (includes           \1\ 41
 offsite production). Do Not Record on PTR.................
Whole fish/food fish.......................................       \1\ 01
Whole fish/bait. Bait. Sold................................           02
Wings. On skates, side fins are cut off next to body.......           13
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        Discard/Disposition Codes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Whole fish/donated prohibited species. Number of Pacific              86
 salmon or Pacific halibut, otherwise required to be
 discarded, that is donated to charity under a NMFS-
 authorized program........................................
Whole fish/onboard bait. Whole fish used as bait on board         \1\ 92
 vessel Not sold...........................................
Whole fish/damaged. Whole fish damaged by observer's              \1\ 93
 sampling procedures.......................................
Whole fish/personal use, consumption. Fish or fish products       \1\ 95
 eaten on board or taken off the vessel for personal use.
 Not sold or utilized as bait..............................
Whole fish, discard, at sea. Whole groundfish and                     98
 prohibited species discarded by catcher vessels, catcher/
 processors, motherships, or vessel buying stations. Do Not
 Record on PTR.............................................
Whole fish, discard, infested. Flea-infested fish, parasite-          88
 infested fish.............................................
Whole fish, discard, decomposed. Decomposed or previously             89
 discarded fish............................................
Whole fish, discard, onshore. Discard after delivery and              99
 before processing by shoreside processors, stationary
 floating processors and buying stations and in-plant
 discard of whole groundfish and prohibited species during
 processing. Do not record on PTR..........................
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        Product Designation Codes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ancillary product. A product, such as meal, heads, internal            A
 organs, pectoral girdles, or any other product that may be
 made from the same fish as the primary product............
Primary product. A product, such as fillets, made from each            P
 fish, with the highest recovery rate......................
Reprocessed or rehandled product. A product, such as meal,             R
 that results from processing a previously reported product
 or from rehandling a previously reported product..........
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                    Pacific Halibut IFQ & CDQ Codes
 The following codes are authorized for IFQ and CDQ reporting of Pacific
                                 halibut
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gutted, head off. Belly slit and viscera removed Pacific              05
 halibut only..............................................

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Gutted, head on. Belly slit and viscera removed Pacific               04
 halibut...................................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------
       The following codes are effective through December 31, 2001
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Whole fish/food fish with ice & slime. Sablefish only......           51
Gutted, head on, with ice & slime. Belly slit and viscera             54
 removed Pacific halibut and sablefish.....................
Gutted, head off, with ice & slime. Belly slit and viscera            55
 removed Pacific halibut only..............................
Headed and gutted, Western cut, with ice & slime. Sablefish           57
 only......................................................
Headed and gutted, Eastern cut, with ice & slime. Sablefish          58
 only......................................................
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ When using whole fish codes, record round weights not product
  weights, even if the whole fish is not used.


 Table 2 to Part 679.--Species Codes for FMP Species and Non-FMP Species
     [Codes without asterisks are FMP species--Federal groundfish or
prohibited species in groundfish fisheries--that must be recorded in R&R
                                systems]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                      Species description                          Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atka mackerel (greenling)......................................      193
Flounder:
    Arrowtooth and/or Kamchatka................................      121
    Starry.....................................................      129
    Alaska Plaice..............................................      133
Octopus........................................................      870
Pacific Cod....................................................      110
Pollock........................................................      270
Rockfish:
    Aurora.....................................................      185
    Black (BSAI)...............................................      142
    Blackgill..................................................      177
    Blue (BSAI)................................................      167
    Bocaccio...................................................      137
    Canary.....................................................      146
    Chilipepper................................................      178
    China......................................................      149
    Copper.....................................................      138
    Darkblotched...............................................      159
    Dusky......................................................      154
    Greenstriped...............................................      135
    Harlequin..................................................      176
    Northern...................................................      136
    Pacific Ocean Perch........................................      141
    (S. alutus only)...........................................
    Pygmy......................................................      179
    Quillback..................................................      147
    Redbanded..................................................      153
    Redstripe..................................................      158
    Rosethorn..................................................      150
    Rougheye...................................................      151
    Sharpchin..................................................      166
    Shortbelly.................................................      181
    Shortraker.................................................      152
    Silvergray.................................................      157
    Splitnose..................................................      182
    Stripetail.................................................      183
    Thornyhead (all Sebastolobus species)......................      143
    Tiger......................................................      148
    Vermillion.................................................      184
    Widow......................................................      156
    Yelloweye..................................................      145
    Yellowmouth................................................      175
    Yellowtail.................................................      155
Sablefish (blackcod)...........................................      710
Sculpins.......................................................      160
Sharks:
    General....................................................      689
    Pacific sleeper............................................      692
    Salmon.....................................................      690
    Spiny dogfish..............................................      691
Skate, longnose................................................      701
Skates, general................................................      700

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Sole:
    Butter.....................................................      126
    Dover......................................................      124
    English....................................................      128
    Flathead...................................................      122
    Petrale....................................................      131
    Rex........................................................      125
    Rock.......................................................      123
    Sand.......................................................      132
    Yellowfin..................................................      127
Squid..........................................................      875
Turbot, Greenland..............................................      134
Forage Fish (all species of the following families):
    Bristlemouths, lightfishes, and anglemouths (family              209
     Gonostomatidae)...........................................
    Capelin smelt (family Osmeridae)...........................      516
    Deep-sea smelts (family Bathylagidae)......................      773
    Eulachon smelt (family Osmeridae)..........................      511
    Gunnels (family Pholidae)..................................      207
    Krill (order Euphausiacea).................................      800
    Laternfishes (family Myctophidae)..........................      772
    Pacific herring (family Clupeidae).........................      235
    Pacific Sand fish (family Trichodontidae)..................      206
    Pacific Sand lance (family Ammodytidae)....................      774
    Pricklebacks, war-bonnets, eelblennys, cockscombs and            208
     Shannys (family Stichaeidae)..............................
    Surf smelt (family Osmeridae)..............................      515
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              Group Codes
  (DO NOT USE FOR SORTING SPECIES. Do not record on ADF&G fish tickets)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Demersal shelf rockfish (china, copper, quillback,               168
     rosethorn, tiger, yellow-eye, canary).....................
    Miscellaneous flatfish (all flatfish without separate            120
     codes)....................................................
    Pelagic shelf rockfish (dusky, yellowtail, widow)..........      169
    Shortraker/rougheye rockfish...............................      171
    Slope rockfish (aurora, blackgill, Bocaccio, redstripe,          144
     silvergray, chili-pepper, dark-blotched, green-striped,
     harlequin, pygmy, redbanded, shortbelly, split-nose,
     stripetail, vermillion, yellowmouth, sharpchin)...........
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        Prohibited Species Codes
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Crab:
        Red king...............................................      921
        Blue king..............................................      922
        Gold/brown king........................................      923
        Scarlet king...........................................      924
        Bairdi Tanner..........................................      931
        Opilio Tanner..........................................      932
        Tanner, grooved........................................      933
        Tanner, triangle.......................................      934
    Pacific halibut............................................      200
    Pacific herring (family Clupeidae).........................      235
    Salmon:
        Chinook................................................      410
        Sockeye................................................      420
        Coho...................................................      430
        Pink...................................................      440
        Chum...................................................      450
    Steelhead trout............................................      540
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Additional *non-FMP Codes
 (*These species codes may be recorded in NMFS logbooks and reports but
          are not required by regulations at 50 CFR part 679.)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Abalone....................................................    * 860
    Albacore...................................................    * 720
    Arctic char, anadromous....................................    * 521
    Clams:
        Butter.................................................    * 810
        Cockle.................................................    * 820
        Eastern softshell......................................    * 842
        Geoduck................................................    * 815
        Little-neck............................................    * 840
        Razor..................................................    * 830

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        Surf...................................................    * 812
    Coral......................................................    * 899
    Crab:
        Box....................................................    * 900
        Dungeness..............................................    * 910
        Korean horsehair.......................................    * 940
        Multispina.............................................    * 951
        Verrilli...............................................    * 953
    Dolly varden, anadromous...................................    * 531
    Eels or eel-like fish......................................    * 210
    Giant grenadier............................................    * 214
    Greenling, kelp............................................    * 194
    Greenling, rock............................................    * 191
    Greenling, whitespot.......................................    * 192
    Grenadier (rattail)........................................    * 213
    Jellyfish..................................................    * 625
    Lamprey, pacific...........................................    * 600
    Lingcod....................................................    * 130
    Lumpsucker.................................................    * 216
    Mussel, blue...............................................    * 855
    Pacific flatnose...........................................    * 260
    Pacific hagfish............................................    * 212
    Pacific saury..............................................    * 220
    Pacific tomcod.............................................    * 250
    Prowfish...................................................    * 215
    Rockfish, black (GOA)......................................    * 142
    Rockfish, blue (GOA).......................................    * 167
    Sardine, Pacific (pilchard)................................    * 170
    Scallop, weathervane.......................................    * 850
    Scallop, pink (or calico)..................................    * 851
    Sea cucumber...............................................    * 895
    Sea urchin, green..........................................    * 893
    Sea urchin, red............................................    * 892
    Shad.......................................................    * 180
    Shrimp:
        Pink...................................................    * 961
        Sidestripe.............................................    * 962
        Humpy..................................................    * 963
        Coonstripe.............................................    * 964
        Spot...................................................    * 965
    Skilfish...................................................    * 715
    Smelt, surf................................................    * 515
    Snails.....................................................    * 890
    Sturgeon, general..........................................    * 680
------------------------------------------------------------------------


                      Table 3 to Part 679.--Product Recovery Rates for Groundfish Species and Conversion Rates for Pacific Halibut
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                                                                                       Product code
                                 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                    1, 2,
                                   41, 86,                          5
 Species code     FMP species      92, 93,    3, 42       4      Gutted    6  H&G    7  H&G    8  H&G    10  H&G     11        12
                                     95       Bled     Gutted   head off  with roe   western   eastern     w/o     Kirimi   SaltED &  13 Wings   14  Roe
                                    Whole              head on    (net                 cut       cut      tail                split
                                    Fish                         weight)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
110..........  Pacific Cod......      1.00      0.98      0.85  ........      0.63      0.57      0.47      0.44  ........      0.45  ........      0.05
121..........  Arrowtooth             1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
                Flounder.
122..........  Flathead Sole....      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
123..........  Rock Sole........      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
124..........  Dover Sole.......      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
125..........  Rex Sole.........      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
127..........  Yellowfin Sole...      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
134..........  Greenland Turbot.      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........      0.80      0.72      0.65      0.62      0.48  ........  ........      0.08
143..........  Thornyhead             1.00      0.98      0.88  ........      0.55      0.60      0.50  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
                Rockfish.
160..........  Sculpins.........      1.00      0.98      0.87  ........  ........      0.50      0.40  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
193..........  Atka Mackerel....      1.00      0.98      0.87  ........      0.67      0.64      0.61  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
270..........  Pollock..........      1.00      0.98      0.80  ........      0.70      0.65      0.56      0.50      0.25  ........  ........      0.07
510..........  Smelts...........      1.00      0.98      0.82  ........  ........      0.71  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
511..........  Eulachon.........      1.00      0.98      0.82  ........  ........      0.71  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
516..........  Capelin..........      1.00      0.98      0.89  ........  ........      0.78  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
689..........  Sharks...........      1.00      0.98      0.83  ........  ........      0.72  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
700..........  Skates...........      1.00      0.98      0.90  ........  ........  ........      0.32  ........  ........  ........      0.32  ........
710..........  Sablefish........      1.00      0.98      0.89  ........  ........      0.68      0.63      0.50  ........  ........  ........  ........
710..........  IFQ Sablefish....      1.00      0.98      0.89  ........  ........      0.68      0.63      0.50  ........  ........  ........  ........
870..........  Octopus..........      1.00      0.98      0.81  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........

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875..........  Squid............      1.00      0.98      0.69  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
               Rockfish.........      1.00      0.98      0.88  ........  ........      0.60      0.50  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
200..........  Conversion rates   ........  ........      0.90       1.0  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........
                to Net Weight
                PACIFIC HALIBUT.
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                                                                                                                     Product code
                                                    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                          20        21        22         23        24
     Species code               FMP species             15        16        17        18        19      Fillets   Fillets   Fillets   Fillets    Fillets                                   31
                                                     Pectoral    Heads    Cheeks     Chins     Belly   W/Skin &   W/Skin    W/Ribs   Skinless/    Deep             30  Surimi             Mince
                                                      Girdle                                             Ribs     no Ribs   no skin    Bnless     Skin
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110...................  Pacific Cod................      0.05  ........      0.05  ........      0.01      0.45      0.35      0.25       0.25  ........  0.15........................       0.5
121...................  Arrowtooth Flounder........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
122...................  Flathead Soleounder........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
123...................  Rock Sole..................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
124...................  Dover Sole.................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
125...................  Rex Sole...................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
127...................  Yellowfin Sole.............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  0.18........................  ........
134...................  Greenland Turbotder........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.32      0.27      0.27       0.22  ........  ............................  ........
143...................  Thornyhead Rockfish........  ........      0.20      0.05      0.05      0.05      0.40      0.30      0.35       0.25  ........  ............................  ........
160...................  Sculpins...................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
193...................  Atka Mackerel..............  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  0.15........................  ........
270...................  Pollock....................  ........      0.15  ........  ........  ........      0.35      0.30      0.30       0.21      0.16  0.16\1\, 0.17\2\............      0.22
510...................  Smelts.....................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.38  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
511...................  Eulachon...................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.38  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
516...................  Capelin....................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
689...................  Sharks.....................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........      0.30      0.30       0.25  ........  ............................  ........
700...................  Skates.....................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
710...................  Sablefish..................  ........  ........      0.05  ........  ........      0.35      0.30      0.30       0.25  ........  ............................  ........
710...................  IFQ Sablefish..............  ........  ........      0.05  ........  ........      0.35      0.30      0.30       0.25  ........  ............................  ........
870...................  Octopus....................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
875...................  Squid......................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
                        Rockfish...................  ........      0.15      0.05      0.05      0.10      0.40      0.30      0.33       0.25  ........  ............................  ........
200...................  Conversion rates Net Weight  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ............................  ........
                         for PACIFIC HALIBUT.
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                                            Table 3 to Part 679--Product Recovery Rates for Groundfish Species and Conversion Rates for Pacific Halibut
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                                                                                    Product Code  (Ice and Slime codes 51, 54, 55, 57, and 58 effective through 12/31/01)
                                                            ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                                                                                                                                              88, 89
       Species code                   FMP species                                                                  37        51        54        55      57  H&G   58  H&G   Infested
                                                             32  Meal   33  Oil  34  Milt     35        36     Butterfly    Whole    Gutted,   Gutted,   western   eastern      or       98, 99
                                                                                           Stomachs   Mantles   Backbone   Fish w/   head on  head off    w/I&S     w/I&S   decomposed  Discards
                                                                                                                removed      I&S      w/I&S     w/I&S                          fish
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
110.......................  Pacific Cod....................      0.17
121.......................  Arrowtooth Flounder............      0.17
122.......................  Flathead Sole..................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
123.......................  Rock Sole......................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
124.......................  Dover Sole.....................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
125.......................  Rex Sole.......................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
127.......................  Yellowfin Sole.................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
134.......................  Greenland Turbot...............      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
143.......................  Thornyhead Rockfish............      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
160.......................  Sculpins.......................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
193.......................  Atka Mackerel..................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
270.......................  Pollock........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.43  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
510.......................  Smelts.........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
511.......................  Eulachon.......................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
516.......................  Capelin........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
689.......................  Sharks.........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
700.......................  Skates.........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
710.......................  Sablefish......................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
710.......................  IFQ Sablefish..................      0.17  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........      1.02      0.91  ........      0.70      0.65       0.00      01.00
870.......................  Octopus........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........      0.85  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
875.......................  Squid..........................      0.17  ........  ........  ........      0.75  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
                            Rockfish.......................  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........  ........  ........  ........  ........       0.00      01.00
200.......................  Conversion rates to Net Weight   ........  ........  ........  ........  ........  .........  ........      0.88      0.98  ........  ........       0.00      0.75
                             for PACIFIC HALIBUT.
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\1\ Standard pollock surimi rate during January through June.
\2\ Standard pollock surimi rate during July through December.
Notes: To obtain round weight of groundfish, divide the product weight of groundfish by the table PRR.
To obtain IFQ net weight of Pacific halibut, multiply the product weight of halibut by the table conversion rate.
To obtain round weight from net weight of Pacific halibut, divide net weight by 0.75 or multiply by 1.33333.


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  Table 7--to Part 679.--Communities Determined To Be Eligible To Apply
                    for Community Development Quotas
   [Other communities may also be eligible, but do not appear on this
                                 table]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aleutian Region:
  1. Akutan
  2. Atka
  3. False Pass
  4. Nelson Lagoon
  5. Nikolski
  6. St. George
  7. St. Paul
Bering Strait:
  1. Brevig Mission
  2. Diomede/Inalik
  3. Elim
  4. Gambell
  5. Golovin
  6. Grayling
  7. Koyuk
  8. Nome
  9. Savoonga
  10. Shaktoolik
  11. St. Michael
  12. Stebbins
  13. Teller
  14. Unalakleet
  15. Wales
  16. White Mountain
Bristol Bay:
  1. Alegnagik
  2. Clark's Point
  3. Dillingham
  4. Egegik
  5. Ekuk
  6. Ekwok
  7. Levelock
  8. Manokotak
  9. Naknek
  10. Pilot Point
  11. Portage Creek
  12. Ugashik
  13. Port Heiden/Meschick
  14. South Naknek
  15. Sovonoski/King Salmon
  16. Togiak
  17. Twin Hills
Southwest Coastal Lowlands:
  1. Alakanuk
  2. Chefornak
  3. Chevak
  4. Eek
  5. Emmonak
  6. Goodnews Bay
  7. Hooper Bay
  8. Kipnuk
  9. Kongiganak
  10. Kotlik
  11. Kwigillingok
  12. Mekoryuk
  13. Mountain Village
  14. Napaskiak
  15. Napakiak
  16. Newtok
  17. Nightmute
  18. Oscarville
  19. Platinum
  20. Quinhagak
  21. Scammon Bay
  22. Sheldon's Point (Nunam Iqua)
  23. Toksook Bay
  24. Tununak
  25. Tuntutuliak
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  Table 8 to Part 679.--Harvest Zone Codes for Use With Vessel Activity
                                 Reports
------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Harvest zone                         Description
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A1.......................  BSAI EEZ off Alaska.
A2.......................  GOA EEZ off Alaska.
B........................  State waters of Alaska.
C........................  State waters other than Alaska.
D........................  Donut Hole.
F........................  Foreign Waters Other than Russia.
I........................  International Waters other than Donut Hole
                            and Seamounts.
R........................  Russian waters.
S........................  Seamounts in International waters.
U........................  U.S. EEZ other than Alaska.
------------------------------------------------------------------------


 Table 9 to Part 679.--Required Logbooks, Reports, Forms and Electronic Logbook and Reports From Participants in
                                        the Federal Groundfish Fisheries
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                     Catcher/                        Shoreside
       Requirement name          Catcher vessel     Processor       Mothership     processor \3\  Buying Station
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1. Daily Fishing Logbook (DFL)  Y..............  N..............  N.............  N.............  N
 \1\.
2. Daily Cumulative Production  N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
 Logbook (DCPL)1.
3. Buying Station Report (BSR)  N..............  N..............  N.............  N.............  Y
4. Check-in/Check-out Report..  N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
5. Optional: Electronic Check-  N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
 in/out report.
6. Weekly Production Report     N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
 (WPR).
7. Optional: Electronic WPR...  N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
8. Shoreside Processor          N..............  N..............  N.............  Y.............  N
 Electronic Logbook Report
 (SPELR) instead of DCPL and
 WPR when receiving AFA
 pollock or pollock harvested
 in a directed pollock fishery.
9. Optional: SPELR instead of   N..............  N..............  N.............  Y.............  N
 DCPL and WPR.
10. U.S. Vessel Activity        Y..............  Y..............  Y.............  N.............  N
 Report (VAR).
11. Daily Production Report     N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
 (DPR) \2\.
12. Product Transfer Report     N..............  Y..............  Y.............  Y.............  N
 (PTR).
13. Required use AFA and CDQ    N..............  Y..............  Y.............  N.............  N
 at-sea scales, including
 daily scale test, printed
 scale output, request for
 inspection of scales and
 observer station, scale
 approval sticker.

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14. VMS when fishing for Atka   Y..............  Y..............  N.............  N.............  N
 mackerel or AFA pollock.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Two formats of the DFL and catcher/processor DCPL exist: one for trawl gear and one for longline and pot
  gear.
\2\ DPR is submitted only when specifically requested by Regional Administrator.
\3\ Also stationary floating processor.

BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

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           Table 19 to Part 679.--Seabird Avoidance Gear Codes
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             Code                        Seabird avoidance gear
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1............................  Bird streamer line. Tow a streamer line
                                or lines during deployment of gear to
                                prevent birds from taking hooks.
                                Streamer line consists of three
                                components: a length of line, streamers
                                attached along a portion of the length
                                and one or more float devices at the
                                terminal end. This device can be single
                                or paired.
2............................  Buoy bag, bird bag, or other float
                                device. Tow a buoy, board, stick or
                                other device during deployment of gear,
                                at a distance appropriate to prevent
                                birds from taking baited hooks. Each of
                                these devices consist of two components:
                                a length of line (without streamers
                                attached), and one or more float devices
                                at the terminal end. Multiple devices
                                may be used.
3............................  Lining tube and/or line shooter. Deploy
                                hooks underwater through a lining tube
                                at a depth sufficient to prevent birds
                                from settling on hooks during deployment
                                of gear.
4............................  Combination of devices. Any combination
                                of the above devices (codes 1, 2, and/or
                                3).
9............................  No bird deterrent device deployed.
0............................  Night fishing. Deploy gear only during
                                the hours specified in Sec.
                                679.24(e)(3) using only the minimum
                                vessel's lights necessary for safety.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Secs. 679.1, 679.2, 679.4, 679.5, 679.6, 679.7, 679.20, 679.21, 679.22, 
679.23, 679.24, 679.26, 679.30, 679.32, 679.41, 679.43, 679.50, and 
Figure 3 to Part 679  [Amended]

    16. At each of the locations shown in the ``Location'' column, 
remove the phrase indicated in the ``Remove'' column and replace it 
with the phrase indicated in the ``Add'' column.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Location                     Remove                Add                        Frequency
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sec.  679.1 introductory          Magnuson-Stevens     Magnuson-Stevens     1
 paragraph.                        Act.                 Act and the
                                                        Northern Pacific
                                                        Halibut Act.
Sec.  679.1(f)..................  (applicable through  (applicable through  1
                                   December 31, 1997).  December 31, 2002).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area   means a............  means (for purposes  1
 endorsement.                                           of groundfish LLP)
                                                        a.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area   Central Area of the  Central GOA          1
 endorsement, paragraph (3).       Gulf of Alaska.      regulatory area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area   Western Area of the  Western GOA          1
 endorsement, paragraph (5).       Gulf of Alaska.      regulatory area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Aleutian Islands     Aleutian Islands     1
 species endorsement, paragraph    brown king.          brown king (see
 (1).                                                   Figure 15 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Aleutian Islands     Aleutian Islands     1
 species endorsement, paragraph    red king.            red king (see
 (2).                                                   Figure 15 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Bristol Bay red      Bristol Bay red      1
 species endorsement, paragraph    king.                king (see Figure
 (3).                                                   15 to this part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Bering Sea and       Bering Sea and       1
 species endorsement, paragraph    Aleutian Islands     Aleutian Islands
 (4).                              Area C. opilio and   Area C. opilio and
                                   C. bairdi.           C. bairdi (see
                                                        Figure 16 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Norton Sound red     Norton Sound red     1
 species endorsement, paragraph    king and Norton      king and Norton
 (5).                              Sound blue king.     Sound blue king
                                                        (see Figure 15 to
                                                        this part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  Pribilof red king    Pribilof red king    1
 species endorsement, paragraph    and Pribilof blue    and Pribilof blue
 (6).                              king.                king (see Figure
                                                        15 to this part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Area/  St. Matthew blue     St. Matthew blue     1
 species endorsement, paragraph    king.                king (see Figure
 (7).                                                   15 to this part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        taken as bycatch...  taken as incidental  1
 Authorized distributor.                                catch.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        limitations) means.  limitations and      1
 Authorized fishing gear.                               Table 15 to this
                                                        part for gear
                                                        codes) means.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        shoreside processor  shoreside            1
 Buying station.                                        processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        Central Gulf or GOA  Central GOA          1
 Central Gulf or GOA Central       Central Regulatory   Regulatory Area.
 Regulatory Area.                  Area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for CDQ    CDQ number or group  CDQ group number...  1
 number or group number.           number.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        ports listed in      ports listed in      1
 Clearing officer.                 Sec.  679.5(l)(3)(   Table 14 to this
                                   viii).               part.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Crab   Crab species means.  Crab species means   1
 species.                                               (see also king
                                                        crab and tanner
                                                        crab).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        Eastern Gulf or GOA  Eastern GOA          1
 Eastern Gulf or GOA Eastern       Eastern Regulatory   Regulatory Area.
 Regulatory Area.                  Area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        means a............  means (for purposes  1
 Eligible applicant.                                    of the LLP
                                                        program) a.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        means a............  means (for purposes  1
 Eligible community.                                    of the CDQ
                                                        program) a.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        EEZ off Alaska.....  EEZ off Alaska (see
 Federal waters.                                        also reporting
                                                        area).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        means a............  means (for purposes  1
 Fishing day.                                           of Subpart E) a.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        refers to..........  means (for purposes  1
 Fishing month.                                         of subpart E) a.

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Sec.  679.2 Definition for Food   relief agencies....  relief agencies      1
 bank distributor.                                      (see Sec.  679.26).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Food   relief agencies....  relief agencies      1
 bank network.                                          (see Sec.  679.26).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        means a............  means (for purposes  1
 groundfish license.                                    of the LLP
                                                        program) a.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        maximum retainable   maximum retainable   1
 Halibut CDQ fishing, paragraph    bycatch amounts.     amounts.
 (1)(ii).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        free of charge.....  free of charge (see  1
 Hunger relief agency.                                  Sec.  679.26).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for IFQ    chapter III of this  chapter III of this  1
 regulatory area, paragraph (1).   title.               title (see also
                                                        Figure 15 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for IFQ    limited entry        limited entry        1
 regulatory area, paragraph (2).   program.             program (see
                                                        Figure 14 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        shoreside processor  shoreside            2
 Manager.                                               processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        vessels or           vessels, shoreside   1
 Observer.                         shoreside            processors, or
                                   processors.          stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        vessels and          vessels, shoreside   1
 Observer contractor.              shoreside            processors, or
                                   processors.          stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Red    (see Sec.            (see Sec.            1
 King Crab Savings Area (RKCSA)    679.22(a)(3)).       679.22(a)(3) and
 of the BSAI.                                           Figure 11 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for Red    (see Sec.            (see Sec.            1
 King Crab Savings Subarea         679.21(e)(3)         679.21(e)(3)
 (RKCSS) of the BSAI.              (ii)(B)).            (ii)(B)) and
                                                        Figure 11 to this
                                                        part).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        means an...........  means (for purposes  1
 Resident fisherman.                                    of the CDQ
                                                        Program) an.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        For the Gulf of      For the GOA........  1
 Rockfish, paragraph (1).          Alaska.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        For the Bering Sea   For the BSAI.......  1
 Rockfish, paragraph (2).          and Aleutian
                                   Islands Management
                                   Area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        Eastern Regulatory   Eastern GOA          1
 Southeast Outside District of     Area.                Regulatory Area.
 the GOA.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        shoreside processor  shoreside            1
 Tender vessel.                                         processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        or shoreside         shoreside            1
 Transfer, paragraph (1).          processor.           processor, or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        at any shoreside     at any shoreside     1
 Transfer, paragraph (1).          processor.           processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        at any shoreside     at any shoreside     1
 Transfer, paragraph (2).          processor.           processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        mothership or        mothership,          1
 Unsorted codend.                  shoreside            shoreside
                                   processor.           processor, or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        (see Sec.  679.5)..  (see Sec.            1
 Vessel Activity Report (VAR).                          679.5(k)).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        (see Sec.  679.4)..  (see Sec.            1
 Vessel operations category.                            679.5(b)(3)).
Sec.  679.2 Definition for West   GOA Eastern          Eastern GOA          1
 Yakutat District of the GOA.      Regulatory Area.     Regulatory Area.
Sec.  679.2 Definition for        Western Gulf or GOA  Western GOA          1
 Western Gulf or GOA Western       Western Regulatory   Regulatory Area.
 Regulatory Areas.                 Areas.
Sec.  679.4(b)(4)(ii),            RAM Division.......  RAM Program........  1
 (f)(4)(ii).
Sec.  679.4(f)(1)...............  or vessel of the     or stationary        1
                                   United States        floating processor.
                                   operating solely
                                   as a mothership in
                                   Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.4(f)(2)(vi)...........  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.4(f)(6)(i)............  shoreside processor  shoreside            1
                                                        processor, or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.4(j)..................  Salmon donation      Prohibited species   1
                                   program permits.     donation program
                                                        permits.
Sec.  679.4(k)(1)(i)............  issued by NMFS to a  issued by NMFS.....  1
                                   qualified person.
Sec.  679.4(k)(4)(ii)(C) (1),     Western Area of the  Western GOA          once for (1), (2), (4); twice for
 (2), (3), and (4).                Gulf of Alaska.      regulatory area.     (3)
Sec.  679.4(k)(4)(ii)(D) (1),     Central Area of the  Central GOA          1
 (2), and (3).                     Gulf of Alaska.      regulatory area.
Sec.  679.6 (b)(7) introductory   experimental         exempted fishing...  1
 text, (d)(1)(iii), (d)(1)(v),     fishing.
 (d)(1)(vi), (d)(2), (e)
 introductory text, (e)(1),
 (e)(2), (e)(3), (e)(4), (e)(5),
 (e)(7), (e)(8).
Sec.  679.6(b) introductory       experimental         exempted fishing...  2
 text, (b)(3), (b)(9), (d)(1)      fishing.
 introductory text.

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Sec.  679.6(f)..................  Experimental         Exempted fishing...  2
                                   fishing.
Sec.  679.6(f)..................  Experimental fishng  Exempted fishing...  1
Sec.  679.7(a)(15)..............  or vessel of the     or stationary        1
                                   United States        floating processor.
                                   operating solely
                                   as a mothership in
                                   Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.7(a)(16)..............  maximum retainable   maximum retainable   1
                                   groundfish bycatch   groundfish amount.
                                   amount.
Sec.  679.7(d)(16)..............  retainable bycatch   maximum retainable   1
                                   amounts.             amounts.
Sec.  679.7(d)(20)..............  shoreside processor  shoreside            1
                                                        processor,
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.8.....................  Sec.  600.740......  Sec.  600.730......  1
Sec.  679.20(a)(4)(i) heading...  GOA Eastern Area...  Eastern GOA          1
                                                        regulatory area.
Sec.  679.20(a)(4)(i) text......  Eastern Area of the  Eastern GOA          1
                                   GOA.                 regulatory area.
Sec.  679.20(a)(4)(ii) heading..  GOA Central and      Central and western  1
                                   Western Areas.       GOA regulatory
                                                        areas.
Sec.  679.20(a)(4)(ii)(A).......  Central and Western  Central and western  1
                                   Areas of the GOA.    GOA regulatory
                                                        areas.
Sec.  679.20(a)(4)(ii)(A).......  Central and Western  Central and western  1
                                   Areas.               GOA regulatory
                                                        areas.
Sec.  679.20(e) heading.........  Maximum retainable   Maximum retainable   1
                                   bycatch amounts.     amounts.
Sec.  679.20(e)(1), (e)(2)(i),    maximum retainable   maximum retainable   1
 (e)(2)(iii).                      bycatch amount.      amount.
Sec.  679.21(d)(4)(iii)(A)......  GOA Eastern          Eastern GOA          1
                                   Regulatory Area.     regulatory areas.
Sec.  679.22(a)(3)..............  Sec.  679.21(e)(4)(  Sec.  679.21(e)(3)(  1
                                   ii)(B).              ii)(B).
Sec.  679.22(a)(11)(iv)(B)        SCA................  SCA (see Figure 20   1
 introductory text.                                     to this part).
Sec.  679.22(b)(3)(iii)(A)......  defined at Sec.      defined at Sec.      1
                                   679.23(d)(3) of      679.23(d)(3) and
                                   this part.           Figure 20 to this
                                                        part.
Sec.  679.22(b)(3)(iii)(B)        Shelikof Strait      Shelikof Strait      1
 introductory text.                conservation area.   conservation area
                                                        (see Figure 19 to
                                                        this part).
Sec.  679.23(h)(1)..............  Western and Central  Western and Central  1
                                   Regulatory Areas     GOA regulatory
                                   of the GOA.          areas.
Sec.  679.23(h)(2)..............  Western Regulatory   Western GOA          2
                                   Area of the GOA.     regulatory area.
Sec.  679.23(h)(3)..............  Central Regulatory   Central GOA          2
                                   Area of the GOA.     regulatory area.
Sec.  679.24(c)(2) heading,       GOA Eastern Area...  Eastern GOA          1
 (c)(2)(i)(A).                                          regulatory area.
Sec.  679.24(c)(2)(ii) (A), (B).  GOA Eastern          Eastern GOA          1
                                   Regulatory Area.     regulatory area.
Sec.  679.24(c)(3) heading......  GOA Central and      Central and Western  1
                                   Western Areas.       GOA regulatory
                                                        areas.
Sec.  679.24(c)(3)..............  GOA Central and      Central and western  1
                                   Western Regulatory   GOA regulatory
                                   Areas.               areas.
Sec.  679.24(d)(2) introductory   in this paragraph    in this paragraph    1
 text.                             (d).                 (d) and in Figure
                                                        7 to this part.
Sec.  679.26(b)(3) heading......  SDP Permit.........  PSD Permit.........  1
Sec.  679.26(c)(3)..............  until 1 year after.  until 3 years after  1
Sec.  679.30(a)(5)(i)(B) heading  Shoreside            shoreside            1
                                   processors.          processors or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.30(a)(5)(i)(B)........  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.32(c).................  shoreside            shoreside            1
                                   processors.          processors or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.32(c)(3)heading.......  Shoreside            shoreside            1
                                   processors and       processors and
                                   vessels of the       stationary
                                   United States        floating
                                   operating solely     processors.
                                   as a mothership in
                                   Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.32(c)(3) introductory   shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
 text.                             or the operator of   or stationary
                                   a vessel of the      floating processor.
                                   U.S. operating
                                   solely as a
                                   mothership in
                                   Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.32(d)(1)..............  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                   or the operator of   or stationary
                                   a vessel of the      floating processor.
                                   U.S. operating
                                   solely as a
                                   mothership in
                                   Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.32(f)(1)..............  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.32(f)(3)..............  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  2
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.41(e)(2)(iii).........  Central Gulf area..  Central GOA          1
                                                        regulatory area.
Sec.  679.41(e)(2)(iv)..........  Western Gulf area..  Western GOA          1
                                                        regulatory area.
Sec.  679.43(a).................  under part 679 of    under this subpart   1
                                   this chapter.        D as well as
                                                        portions of
                                                        subpart C of this
                                                        part.
Sec.  679.50(c)(1)(vi)..........  Eastern Regulatory   Eastern GOA          1
                                   Area of the GOA.     regulatory area.

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Sec.  679.50(c)(3)(iii).........  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                   or to a mothership   or stationary
                                   processor vessel     floating processor.
                                   in Alaska State
                                   waters.
Sec.  679.50(d) introductory      shoreside            shoreside            1
 text heading.                     processors.          processors and
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.50(d) introductory      shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
 text and (d)(4)(i).                                    or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(e)(2), (g).........  vessels or           vessels, shoreside   1
                                   shoreside            processors or
                                   processors.          stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.50(f)(2) heading......  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(f)(2)..............  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(f)(2)(iii) (A),      shoreside            shoreside            1
 (f)(2)(iv), (f)(2)(v).            processors.          processors or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.50(h)(2)(i)(A)(4).....  vessel or shoreside  vessel, shoreside    1
                                   processor.           processor, or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(i)(2)(v)(A)........  shoreside processor  shoreside processor  1
                                                        or stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(i)(2)(v)(C)........  vessels and/or       vessels, shoreside   1
                                   shoreside            processors and/or
                                   processors.          stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.50(i)(2)(xiv) (B),      vessel or shoreside  vessel, shoreside    1
 (C), and (D).                     processor.           processor, or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating processor.
Sec.  679.50(i)(2)(xiv) (G)(3)    shoreside            shoreside            1
 and (4).                          processors.          processors or
                                                        stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
Sec.  679.50(j)(4)(i)...........  vessels and          vessels, shoreside   1
                                   shoreside            processors, and
                                   processors.          stationary
                                                        floating
                                                        processors.
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