To strengthen the National Marine
Fisheries Service's (NMFS) relationship with recreational saltwater
fishermen, all regions were tasked to develop action agendas that
address national priority goals for improving recreational data.
The Pacific Islands Action Agenda, approved by NMFS in late 2011,
resulted in updating a data exchange agreement with the State of
Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources and improving their
boat registration system. NMFS is following up by surveying
Hawaii's registered boaters to understand their use of boats for
fishing in the EEZ. This survey project, which we will conduct in
collaboration with the Department of Land and Natural Resources,
responds to both circumstances described above. First, it will
provide fishery managers in Hawaii with a statistically-derived
estimate of the number of boat-based anglers who fish in federal
waters and information about their catch, effort, attitudes,
preferences, and expectations. Second, several questions contained
in the survey will directly inform Hawaii's efforts, in partnership
with NMFS, to develop the private boat-based component of a
qualifying regional survey that will exempt the State's anglers
from the national registry requirement.
US Code:
16 USC 8801 et seq. Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act
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