HMS Tournaments Registration

ATLANTIC HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES (HMS)
TOURNAMENT REGISTRY
Tournament Information
Name
Port/City

State

Date(s)

Has this tournament registered before? (Y/N)

Most recent year

Operator/Director Contact Information
Name
Email
Address
Phone

City, state, zip
(

)

-

FAX (

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Check all species that may be entered in the tournament:
BILLFISHES
Blue Marlin
White Marlin/Roundscale
Spearfish (not differentiated)*
White Marlin*
Roundscale Spearfish*
Sailfish
Longbill Spearfish
SWORDFISH
* These species look very similar. If
the tournament will not identify the
species separately, select “not
differentiated.”

SHARKS
Large Coastal Sharks
Tiger, Blacktip, Bull,
Hammerheads
(Great, Scalloped, Smooth),
Lemon, Nurse, Spinner

Small Coastal Sharks
Sharpnose, Blacknose,
Bonnethead, Finetooth

TUNAS
Bluefin
Bigeye
Albacore
Yellowfin
Skipjack
Blackfin**
OTHER FISHES**

Pelagic Sharks
Blue, Oceanic whitetip,
Porbeagle, Shortfin mako,
Thresher

Smooth Dogfish

** Registration is optional
for these species.

The tournament would like ____ (#) Atlantic HMS regulations and species guides to distribute.
Operator/Director Signature

Date

Send registration confirmation number to (choose one):

E-mail

Mail

FAX

Submit this form to (choose one):
HMSTournamentRegistry@noaa.gov ● 263 13th Ave S, St Petersburg, FL 33701 ● FAX (727) 824-5398
Registered tournaments are posted weekly at http://go.usa.gov/33m39
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/
Tournaments, Billfish, Swordfish: (727) 824-5399 ● Sharks: (301) 427-8503 ● Tunas: (978) 281-9260
Under Federal Regulations at 50 CFR 635.5, for all Atlantic HMS tournaments that are conducted from a port in an Atlantic coastal state, including the U.S. Virgin Islands and
Puerto Rico, a tournament operator must:
(1)
Register at least four (4) weeks before the tournament begins. The tournament is only registered once the operator has received a confirmation number from the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).
(2)
If selected by NMFS, operators must submit the catch and effort report from the tournament on an HMS tournament summary reporting form, no later than seven (7)
days after the conclusion of the tournament.
Thank you for helping NMFS track HMS recreational activities. The information collected through HMS tournament registration and reporting is used in stock assessments and
national statistical reports.
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE: Collection of information through tournament registration and reporting provides essential information for the conservation and
management of highly migratory species. This information will be used to estimate recreational landings of these species through tournaments and may be used to estimate
fishing effort. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2 minutes per response (tournament registration), including the time for reviewing
instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding
this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to NOAA Fisheries, Highly Migratory Species
Management Division (F/SF1), 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Registering and, if selected, reporting, of tournaments is required under the authority of the
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act. It is NOAA policy to preserve the confidentiality of information submitted
under this reporting requirement, except that NMFS may release such information in aggregate or summary form, such that individual identifiers are not disclosed (NAO-216100). Tournament operators may voluntarily elect for NMFS to release information to the public regarding tournament name, date(s), city, state, and target species.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of
information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.

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