Large Pelagic Fishing Survey - Biological Sampling

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materials, and written communications with potential respondents. This statement is provided to
those persons conducting telephone and dockside interviews which will be read or disseminated
to respondents upon request.
PRA Burden Statement for Survey Instruments
PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT NOTICE: Collection of information through the Large
Pelagics Fishing Survey provides essential information for the conservation and management of
Atlantic tunas, billfish and sharks. Information on fishing effort and catch will be used for stock
assessment and in developing international catch sharing agreements. Public reporting burden
for this collection of information is estimated as follows: a) 8 minutes per telephone survey
response, b) 5 minutes per dockside interview response and 1.5 minutes per interview telephone
validation response, c) 1 minute per biological sampling response, d) 4 minutes per headboat
captain telephone interview response, and 8 minutes per headboat at-sea survey response. These estimates
include the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and
maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing thecollection of information.
Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this
collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to: NMFS, Fisheries Statistics
Division (F/ST1), 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Reporting of fishing effort for,
and catch of, Atlantic highly migratory fish species is required under the authority of the Atlantic Tunas
Convention Act and/or the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management 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 216-100). 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.
OMB Control No.: 0648-0380
Expires 11/30/2014