In accordance
with 5 CFR 1320, the information collection is approved for three
years.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
07/31/2021
36 Months From Approved
07/31/2018
439,048
0
439,888
51,015
0
50,687
673,277
0
670,901
NMFS requires persons with permitted
fishing vessels to mark their vessel and fishing gear with the
official identification number or another form of approved
identification. A vessel's official number, under most regulations,
is required to be displayed on the port and starboard sides of the
deckhouse or hull, and weather deck. The marking of fishing gear is
also valuable in actions concerning damage, loss, and civil
proceedings. Fishing gear marking requirements apply to coral
aquacultured live rock, golden crab traps, mackerel gillnet floats,
spiny lobster traps, buoy gear, and black sea bass pots. These
vessel and fishing gear markings provide law enforcement personnel
with a means to monitor fishing, at-sea processing, and other
related activities to ascertain whether the vessel's observed
activities and fishing gear are in accordance with those authorized
for that vessel.
US Code:
16 USC 1801 et seq. Name of Law: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act as amended in 2006
Adjustments: NMFS increased the
annual cost estimate for gear marking requirements due to a cost
increase by a tag manufacturer, Floy Tag & Mfg., Inc. The cost
of identification tags for golden crab traps increased from $1.80
to $2 per tag (a $2,000 increase, $2,000 of the $2,376 net
increase). There was an increase in 2016 from 30 to 32 black sea
bass fishermen. Annual cost per each of these respondents (for all
gear components) was $76, so change accounted for an additional
$152. Since then, tag costs increased from $1.80 to $2 per tag;
$0.20 increase per tag. Each fisherman is limited to not more than
35 pots, which equates to a maximum of 35 tags. The addition of
$0.20 per 35 tags = a $7 increase per fisherman or a total increase
of $224. Added to the initial increase of $152, this equates to the
additional total gear cost increase of $376 in addition to the
lobster pot tags increase of $2,000. NMFS also adjusted the burden
estimates to correct inadvertent calculation errors on pot gear
marking, made in a previous revision of OMB Control No. 0648-0358.
The number of pots should be 4,480 rather than 5,320. This
difference accounts for the 840 response decrease. The correction
reduced the burden hours by 224 hours (840 * 10 minutes apiece
(previous black sea bass gear response time was estimated at 10
minutes each). Decrease of 840 markings time 10 minutes each,
decreased hours by 140. An increase of 6 minutes per remaining the
remaining 4,480 markings added 468 hours. The net hourly increase
is 328.
$0
No
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Adam Bailey 808
944-2248
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.