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pdfNOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-262
2020
Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology
Annual Discard Report
with Observer Sea Day Allocation
by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center
and the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office
US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
National Marine Fisheries Service
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
April 2020
NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-262
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2020
Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology
Annual Discard Report
with Observer Sea Day Allocation
by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center1
and the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office2
1
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service,
Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries, Office 55 Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930
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US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Wilbur L Ross, Secretary
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Neil Jacobs, Under Secretary
National Marine Fisheries Service
Chris Oliver, Assistant Administrator for Fisheries
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
April 2020
Editorial Notes
Information Quality Act Compliance: In accordance with section 515 of Public Law 106-554, the
Northeast Fisheries Science Center completed both technical and policy reviews for this report.
These predissemination reviews are on file at the NEFSC Editorial Office.
Species Names: The NEFSC Editorial Office’s policy on the use of species names in all
technical communications is generally to follow the American Fisheries Society’s lists of
scientific and common names for fishes, mollusks, and decapod crustaceans and to follow the
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other species. Exceptions to this policy occur when there are subsequent compelling revisions in
the classifications of species, resulting in changes in the names of species.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables ................................................................................................................................. iv
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations .............................................................................................. v
Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... vi
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Summary of Observer Coverage ..................................................................................................... 1
Summary of Discard Estimates ....................................................................................................... 2
Summary of Sea Days Needed ....................................................................................................... 2
Summary of Funding available for April 2020 through March 2021 ............................................. 6
Prioritization Trigger and Details of the Allocation of Sea Days to Fleets .................................... 8
Discussion ..................................................................................................................................... 13
References Cited ........................................................................................................................... 16
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1. A list of the 14 fish and invertebrate species groups and 1 species of sea turtle, with
species group abbreviations in parentheses and scientific names in italics, and the species
that compose these groups, corresponding to the 13 federal fishery management plans
implemented in the waters off the northeastern United States. ........................................ 18
Table 2. Total catch, Vessel Trip Report landings, estimated discards, associated coefficient of
variation, and standard error of the estimated discards for 14 Standardized Bycatch
Reporting Methodology species groups combined, by fleet, based on July 2018 through
June 2019 data................................................................................................................... 19
Table 3. The most recent average annual estimates and 5 year pooled estimates of sea turtle
interactions and their associated coefficient of variation in US commercial fisheries. .... 21
Table 4. The number of sea days needed to achieve a 30% coefficient of variation of the discard
estimate for each of the 14 fish and invertebrate species groups, the number of pilot sea
days, the number of minimum pilot sea days, and the maximum number of sea days
needed for each fleet (2020 Sea Days Needed) for fish and invertebrate species groups
based on July 2018 through June 2019 data. .................................................................... 22
Table 5. The number of sea days needed to monitor fish/invertebrates, loggerhead turtles,
combined species groups by fleet; the number of funded sea days for April 2020 through
March 2021; and the differences between needed and funded days. ................................ 24
Table 6. The 2020 sea days needed and the information used in the penultimate approach to
prioritize sea days to fleets for agency-funded days that are applicable to the prioritization
process............................................................................................................................... 26
Table 7. The number of sea days needed to monitor the combined species groups, prioritized
days, nonprioritized days (Marine Mammal Protection Act), industry-funded scallop
days, and the 2020 observer sea days allocated for April 2020 through March 2021, by
fleet. ................................................................................................................................ 28
Appendix Table 1. Stratification abbreviations used for 2020 fleets............................................ 30
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LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AA = access area
ASM = At-Sea Monitoring Program
CV = coefficient of variation
CI = confidence interval
EPU = Ecological Protection Unit
ESA = Endangered Species Act
FMP = fishery management plan
FY = fiscal year
GEN = general category
IFS = Industry Funded Scallop Program
lg = large mesh
LIM = limited access category
MA = Mid-Atlantic
MMPA = Marine Mammal Protection Act
NE = New England
NEFMC = New England Fishery Management Council
NEFOP = Northeast Fisheries Observer Program
NEFSC = Northeast Fisheries Science Center
NMFS = National Marine Fisheries Service
NOAA = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
OPEN = nonaccess area
PTNS = Pre-Trip Notification System
SBRM = Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology
SE = standard error of the estimate
sm = small mesh
TDD = Turtle Deflector Dredge
US = United States
VTR = Vessel Trip Report
xlg = extra large mesh
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This document contains a compilation of the information to meet the 2020 Standardized
Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) annual discard report requirements. For fish and
invertebrate species groups, several of the required annual discard report elements (discards and
precision by fleet) can be found in Wigley and Tholke 2020, along with a description of the data
sources, methods, results, and discussion. Similarly, for sea turtles, further information can be
found in Murray 2012, 2018, and 2020.
An estimated 61,880 mt (136,420,948 lb) of federally regulated species were discarded
from July 2018 through June 2019.
Based on the most recent bycatch analysis of sea turtles in the sink gillnet gear (20122016), there were an estimated 141 loggerhead (Caretta caretta) interactions per year, 29 Kemp’s
ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) interactions per year, 5 leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea)
interactions per year, and 22 unidentified hard-shelled turtle interactions per year. In the most
recent analysis of bottom trawl gear (2014-2018), there were an estimated 116 loggerhead
interactions per year, 9 Kemp’s ridley interactions per year, 5 leatherback interactions per year,
and 3 green turtle (Chelonia mydas) interactions per year.
After sea day adjustments, a total of 7,666 sea days is needed to monitor the 15 SBRM
species groups (14 fish/invertebrates species groups and 1 sea turtle species) for April 2020
through March 2021. Of the 7,666 sea days, 6,344 sea days are needed for agency-funded fleets,
and 1,322 sea days are needed for industry-funded scallop fleets.
The funds available to the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) Northeast
Fisheries Sampling Branch in fiscal year (FY) 2020 are estimated to provide support for 4,419
days, and 774 days are carried over (i.e., bought ahead) from FY2019 funds for a total of 5,193
days (4,808 prioritized days + 385 nonprioritized days) for April 2020 through March 2021. Based
upon an observer set-aside compensation rate analysis for the Industry Funded Scallop Program,
there is industry funding for 1,890 days. Hence, 7,083 days are available for April 2020 through
March 2021 observer coverage.
Within the agency-funded fleets and prioritization-applicable funding, a shortfall of 1,536
(6,344 – 4,808) days is expected. The 2020 funding shortfall triggers the SBRM prioritization
process; the prioritization approach is utilized with a portion of the agency funds. Practical
limitations prevent the observer program from covering the 36 sea days associated with 4 fleets.
These 36 sea days have been reallocated to the fleet impacted by the prioritization process.
The numbers of sea days allocated by fleet (where a fleet represents gear type, access area,
trip category, region, and mesh group combinations) are given for April 2020 through March 2021.
There is a proposed SBRM framework action to expand the sampling frame for the MidAtlantic and New England lobster pot fleets. If the framework action is approved, then beginning
in the calendar quarter following final approval, all active federal lobster vessels may be eligible
for selection to take an observer, regardless of whether they are required to submit Vessel Trip
Reports.
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INTRODUCTION
The Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) Omnibus Amendment was
implemented in February 2008 (NMFS 2008; NEFMC, MAFMC, NMFS 2007) to address the
requirements of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act to include
standardized bycatch reporting methodology in all of the New England Fishery Management
Council (NEFMC) and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) federal fishery
management plans (FMPs). The regulations implementing the SBRM were removed by National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in December 2011 (NMFS 2011) because of a deficiency
associated with the prioritization process (one element of the amendment). A revised SBRM
Omnibus Amendment was approved in March 2015, and a final rule was implemented in July 2015
(NEFMC, MAFMC, NMFS 2015).
The SBRM amendment requires an annual discard report utilizing information obtained
from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s (NEFSC) Fisheries Sampling Branch’s observer
programs (Northeast Fisheries Observer Program [NEFOP] and Industry Funded Scallop [IFS]
Program) for 14 federally managed species groups 1 and sea turtles (Table 1) in the waters of the
northeastern United States (US). Specifically, the SBRM annual discard report requirements
include: “…summaries of the trips observed, fishing modes in the relevant time period, funding
issues and other related issues and developments, and projections of coverage across fisheries for
upcoming time period. More detailed information would be provided in tables and figures that
addressed: The number of observer trips and sea days scheduled that were accomplished for each
fishing mode and quarter, as well as the number of trips and sea days of industry activity; the kept
weight from unobserved quarters and statistical areas summarized by fishing mode; the amount
kept and estimated discards of each species by fishing mode; and the relationship between sample
size and precision for relevant fishing modes.”(NEFMC, MAFMC, NMFS 2015, pages 237-238).
This document contains a compilation of the information to meet the 2020 SBRM annual
discard report requirements. For fish and invertebrate species groups, several of the required
annual discard report elements can be found in Wigley and Tholke 2020, along with a description
of the data sources, methods, results, and discussion. Similarly, for sea turtles, further information
can be found in Murray 2012, 2018, and 2020. This document also presents the number of sea days
needed to monitor the 15 species groups, the funding available for observer coverage, and the
numbers of sea days allocated by fleet 2 (where a fleet represents gear type, access area, trip
category, region, and mesh group combinations) for April 2020 through March 2021.
SUMMARY OF OBSERVER COVERAGE
A total of 3,371 trips (8,915 days) was observed from July 2018 through June 2019. When
these trips were stratified by fleet and quarter, some trips were partitioned between fleets resulting
in 3,555 trips (9,357 days). See Tables 2 and 3 in Wigley and Tholke 2020 for a summary of the
number of observed trips and industry Vessel Trip Reports (VTR) trips by fleet and calendar
quarter and a summary of the number of observed sea days and industry sea days by fleet and
As of December 15, 2017, blueline tilefish became a federally managed species in the Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council’s Golden and Blueline Tilefish Fishery Management Plan.
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Fleets are synonymous with “fishing modes.”
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calendar quarter, respectively. There were 62 fleets uniquely identified in the July 2018 through
June 2019 data. Based upon the industry activity during this time period, the New England (NE)
large mesh OPEN general (GEN) scallop trawl fleet (Row 12) and the NE other dredge (Row 59)
were added to the collection of fleets analyzed.
A spatial and temporal analysis of the kept weight of all species (i.e., any species retained
during the trip) from statistical areas and calendar quarter was conducted. Over all fleets, 75.2%
of kept weight of all species occurred in statistical areas and calendar quarters that had observer
coverage. For a summary of the percentage of kept weight with observer coverage by fleet from
July 2018 through June 2019, see Table 4 in Wigley and Tholke 2020.
SUMMARY OF DISCARD ESTIMATES
For fish/invertebrate species, the total catch, kept, and estimated discards (in live weight)
and their associated coefficient of variation (CV) were derived for fleets by using data collected
from July 2018 through June 2019 (Wigley and Tholke 2020). Based upon that discard estimation
analysis, an estimated 61,880 mt (136,420,948 lb) of federally regulated species were discarded
(Table 2). Fleet abbreviations used in this report are described in Appendix Table 1. See Tables
5A and 5B in Wigley and Tholke 2020 for summaries by fleet and SBRM species group and by
fleet and individual species that compose these 14 species groups, respectively.
The most recent average annual estimates of sea turtle interactions and CVs in US
commercial fisheries are listed in Table 3. Methods to estimate sea day needs for the different gear
types can be found in either Murray (2018) or Murray (2020).
SUMMARY OF SEA DAYS NEEDED
For fish/invertebrate species groups, the number of sea days needed to achieve a 30% CV
of total discards for each species group was derived for 62 fleets by using data collected from July
2018 through June 2019 (Wigley and Tholke 2020). Based on that sample size analysis, a total of
6,404 sea days would be needed for the 14 fish and invertebrate species groups. Table 4 presents
the number of sea days needed for each of the 14 species groups, number of pilot coverage days,
and number of minimum pilot days. Table 4 and Step 1 in Table 5 present the sea days needed by
fleet. The number of needed sea days for fish/invertebrate species groups is further adjusted as
described below.
In the Wigley and Tholke 2020 analysis, there were 14 “erroneous” fleets identified which
resulted from either VTR misreporting the gear type used (e.g., scallop trawl, beam trawl), fishing
outside the regulations (by using smaller mesh size than allowed), or inconsistent gear codes
between data collection systems (e.g., otter trawl, other; pots and trap, other; dredge, other; and
shrimp trawl). The 333 sea days associated with the 14 “erroneous” fleets (composed of 1,300
VTR trips for July 2018 through June 2019) have been set to zero (Table 5, Step 2, gray shaded
cells). When this adjustment is made, 6,071 days total are needed to monitor 14 fish/invertebrate
species groups in 48 fleets (Table 5, Step 2).
An updated analysis of sea turtle bycatch in Mid-Atlantic (MA) bottom trawl gear from
2014-2018 was used to project sea day monitoring needs for turtles in 2020 (Murray 2020).
Interaction rates for each turtle species were estimated with stratified ratio estimators, where rates
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were stratified by Ecological Production Unit (EPU; Georges Bank and Mid-Atlantic), latitude
zone, season, and depth. In the Mid-Atlantic region, a total of 571 loggerhead (Caretta caretta,
CV = 0.29, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 318-997), 46 Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys kempii, CV
= 0.45, 95% CI = 10-88), 16 green (Chelonia mydas, CV = 0.73, 95% CI = 0-44), and 20
leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea, CV = 0.72, 95% CI = 0-50) turtle interactions were estimated
to have occurred in bottom trawl gear over the 5 year period. On Georges Bank, a total of 12
loggerheads (CV = 0.70, 95% CI = 0-31) and 6 leatherback (CV = 1.0, 95% CI = 0-20) interactions
were estimated to have occurred (Table 3).
Prior to estimating observer coverage needs for future fishing years, the probability of
encountering each turtle species in either the Georges Bank or Mid-Atlantic region was estimated
by using results of this analysis. This process was recommended for sea turtles to prevent SBRM
sea day needs in some fleets from being driven by species with a low probability of encounter with
the fishing gear (Hogan et al. 2019). As a result, monitoring levels were not estimated for Kemp’s
ridley, leatherback, or green turtles in the updated analysis, nor for loggerheads on Georges Bank,
because there was <50% probability of observing 5 or more turtles over 800 trips in a year.
Observer coverage needs were estimated for loggerheads in the Mid-Atlantic.
Based on results of the updated analysis, 2,668 sea days are needed annually to monitor
loggerhead interactions with 30% precision across bottom trawl fleets operating in the MidAtlantic EPU (see text table given below). However, allocating 2,668 days to Mid-Atlantic 3 SBRM
trawl fleets will overshoot the needed number of days for turtles because some portion of the effort
in the Mid-Atlantic EPU is composed of New England fleets. Sea days for turtles are normally
merged with days needed for fish to achieve monitoring objectives for both taxa (NEFSC and
GARFO 2019). Prior to this step, we aimed to estimate the proportion of New England fishing
effort in the Mid-Atlantic EPU and then removed this proportion of sea days from the needed
number of days allocated for turtles to account for the overlap of spatial strata when fish and sea
turtle sea days are merged.
Using VTR data from 2014-2018, approximately 67% of New England small mesh otter
trawl effort (in terms of days fished) occurred in the Mid-Atlantic EPU, and 10% of New England
large mesh otter trawl effort 4. We applied these proportions to the number of days needed to
monitor fish in each of the New England otter trawl fleets (988 and 840 days in the New England
small mesh and large mesh otter fleets, respectively; Table 5, Step 2, Rows 7 and 8), for a total of
746 days. We then remove 746 days from the coverage needed for turtles, so that days allocated
for turtles in the Mid-Atlantic were reduced to 1,922 days (see text table given below and Table
5). We anticipate that the actual amount of observer effort in the Mid-Atlantic EPU is the adjusted
amount for turtles plus the amount of effort operating there from New England fleets. The amount
of Mid-Atlantic effort fishing in the Northeast EPUs was small (<5% of effort), so we did not make
any adjustments in the other direction (i.e., removing Mid-Atlantic effort from the New England
fish days).
The sampling frame for SBRM “Mid-Atlantic” fleets is composed of vessels departing from Connecticut to North
Carolina; however, vessels operating in the Mid-Atlantic EPU depart from Massachusetts to North Carolina, based
on the turtle analysis.
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Other bases for these percentages were explored, including a 3 year average from 2016-2018, or the latest year’s
effort (2018). In both scenarios the percentages differed by <5%, so the 2014-2018 percentages were used to adjust
turtle days because these years were the basis of the sea day analysis.
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This adjustment process was not conducted for gillnet fleets because the spatial
stratification used for estimating and monitoring turtle bycatch is different than otter trawl. Sea
day needs for turtles in gillnet fleets are explained in Murray 2018 and NEFSC and GARFO 2019.
Roughly 887 days are needed across sink gillnet fisheries (Murray 2018; see text table
given below and Table 5). Days required for loggerhead turtles in gillnet gear encompass both the
Mid-Atlantic and Georges Bank regions. Projected sea day coverage was estimated from a pooled
CV over all turtle strata, so monitoring needs for both regions are combined, rather than computed
separately for each region. As such, days cannot be extracted from the 887 and allocated to Georges
Bank and Mid-Atlantic separately. This region is expanded over previous analyses and overlaps a
portion of New England fish/invertebrate fleets. Had fish and turtle days been merged over all 6
fleets (NE and MA gillnet fleets), then over 270 of the 887 days would have been allocated to the
Gulf of Maine where turtles are not present, and likewise fewer days would have been allocated to
the Mid-Atlantic. Therefore, all 887 days were allocated to the Mid-Atlantic because 97% of
estimated loggerhead bycatch is in the Mid-Atlantic, and mean bycatch rates in the Mid-Atlantic
are >200 times larger than those on Georges Bank. Monitoring for turtles will still occur on
Georges Bank because some northern Mid-Atlantic vessels using “Mid-Atlantic” days will likely
fish on Georges Bank, and effort is also expected there from fish days 5.
Estimates of sea day needs for turtles are revised when new bycatch estimates are published
for a particular gear type (approximately every 5 years).
Similar to 2019, coverage needs for turtles on vessels using scallop dredge gear in the MidAtlantic were not estimated. Since May 2013, the use of turtle deflector dredges (TDDs) with chain
mats have been required on scallop dredges in times and areas where loggerhead turtles are known
to be most common. These modifications are intended to reduce those interactions in which
animals are landed or observed from the deck, although other “unobservable” interactions may
still be occurring (i.e., those in which animals escape from the gear or come in contact with the
gear but are not captured and brought to the surface where they can be observed; Warden and
Murray 2011). Managers currently monitor dredge fishing hours in the Mid-Atlantic scallop
fishery as an indicator of whether elevated turtle interactions may be occurring compared to
baseline conditions because of the likelihood that most dredge-based takes of sea turtles may be
unobservable (NMFS 2012) 6. Therefore, observer coverage levels in the Mid-Atlantic scallop
dredge fleets in 2020 will be driven by other species groups. This approach ensures that some level
of coverage still exists to monitor the effectiveness of TDDs and chain mats in reducing observable
interactions and to helps monitor turtle interactions outside of gear regulated times and areas.
Using June 2018 through July 2019 VTR data, it has been estimated that the 437 days needed for fish in NE gillnet
fleets would provide approximately 230 days of expected coverage in the Georges Bank region.
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The Incidental Take Statement of the 2012 Sea Scallop Biological Opinion was amended 1 May 2015.
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The numbers of sea days needed to achieve a 30% CV associated with the Mid-Atlantic
turtle gear types and fish/invertebrate fleets are given below and in Table 5, Steps 2 and 3.
Turtle Gear Types and
Fish/Invertebrate Fleets
MA Otter Trawl, MA Scallop Trawl, MA
Ruhle Trawl, MA Other Otter Trawl
Rows 5, 6, 9-11, 16, 17, and 23
MA Gillnet
Rows 28-30
Sea Days Needed
Fish/Invertebrate
Loggerhead Turtles
Species Groups
2,668 (reduced to 1,922)
1,038
887
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The numbers of sea days needed for the combined fish/invertebrate and turtle species
groups were derived as follows:
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If the sum of the sea days needed for fish/invertebrate species groups of the corresponding
fish/invertebrate fleets exceeded the sea days needed for the turtle gear type, then the sea
days needed for fish/invertebrate was used. To support the penultimate prioritization
approach, the sea days needed for turtles are apportioned to the corresponding
fish/invertebrate fleets by using the proportion of fish/invertebrate sea days within the
turtle gear type (Table 5, Step 4).
•
If the number of sea days needed for turtles for the gear type exceeded the sum of the sea
days needed for fish/invertebrate groups of the corresponding fish/invertebrate fleets, then
the difference 7 between the sea days needed for turtles and fish were distributed according
to the proportion of VTR sea days corresponding to fish/invertebrate fleets and added to
the days needed for fish/invertebrate groups, by fleet (Table 5, Step 4). The number of
VTR sea days by fleet is taken from Table 3 in Wigley and Tholke 2020 and reflects
industry activity from July 2018 through June 2019.
A total of 7,666 sea days is needed for fish/invertebrates and loggerhead turtles
(COMBINED; Table 5, Step 5) for April 2020 through March 2021. Of the 7,666 sea days, 6,344
sea days are needed for agency-funded fleets, and 1,322 sea days are needed for industry-funded
scallop fleets (Table 5, Step 6).
The use of the difference between sea days needed for fish and sea days needed for turtles (rather than the sum of
the sea days needed for turtles) represents a 2019 refinement to the sea day allocation methods described in the 2015
SBRM Omnibus Amendment. The 2019 refinement prevents the sea days needed to monitor fish and turtles
(combined) from exceeding the sea days needed for either taxon within a gear type.
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SUMMARY OF FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR APRIL 2020
THROUGH MARCH 2021
The funds available to the NEFSC’s Fisheries Sampling Branch in fiscal year (FY) 2020
are estimated to provide support for 4,419 days, and 774 days are carried over (i.e., bought ahead)
from FY2019 funds 8 for a total of 5,193 (4,419 + 774) days for April 2020 through March 2021.
Based upon an observer set-aside compensation rate analysis for the Industry Funded Scallop
program, there is industry funding for 1,890 days. Hence, 7,083 (5,193 + 1,890) days are available
for April 2020 through March 2021 observer coverage.
Below is a summary of the 2 funding source categories: agency-funded and industryfunded. Within the agency-funded category, there are 5 subcategories: Atlantic Coast Observers,
National Observer Program, Northeast Fisheries Observers, Marine Mammal Protection Act, and
Reducing Bycatch.
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Agency-funded: The funding sources for the 5,193 agency-funded sea days include:
Atlantic Coast Observers (574 days), Northeast Fisheries Observers (2,129 days [based
on funds 9 in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2020]), National Observer Program
(1,160 days), Reducing Bycatch (37 days), National Catch Share Program (263 days), and
645 FY2019 carryover/bought ahead days collectively fund the sea days for prioritization
(4,808 days; Table 5, Step 7), and Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA; 256 days)
and FY2019 carryover/bought ahead (129 days) collectively fund the sea days to monitor
protected species (385 days; Table 5, Step 7).
o 385 agency-funded days are applicable to protected species 10 only.
385 MMPA days are associated with trips having sampling protocols that are
specific to protected species (marine mammals, sea turtles, Endangered Species
Act [ESA] listed fish species) and are not applicable for non-ESA listed fish and
invertebrates. Owing to the extra demands of monitoring protected species,
information on finfish and shellfish discards is not collected on these trips.
However, these days will provide observer coverage for sea turtles and ESA-listed
fish species above that which is allocated for all species.
o 4,808 (5,193 - 385) agency-funded days are applicable for all species.
The best estimate of the FY2019 carryover days is 774 days (645 prioritized carryover days and 129 MMPA
carryover days).
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Per the US DC Circuit Court (Oceana v. Locke, 2011), NMFS must fund Standardized Bycatch Reporting
Methodology requirements in the Northeast before directing discretionary funds to at-sea monitoring and will
therefore allocate the necessary resources from Observers and Training to meet SBRM requirements before funding
at-sea monitoring with discretionary funding. However, in the FY20 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress
allocated specific funds to use for at-sea monitoring and directed NMFS to fully fund the at-sea monitoring program.
As such, these funds are not discretionary, and NMFS has been directed to fully fund the at-sea monitoring program
regardless of whether the SBRM requirements have been met.
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In this document, protected species refers to marine mammals, sea turtles, and ESA-listed fish.
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4,808 days are subject to the prioritization process across all fleets. The
prioritization approach is described in the next section and given in Table 6.
No sea days have been set aside to support discovery days to address emerging
questions of scientific and management interest as the year progresses.
o There is a single provider for NEFOP sea days and consequently, the projected costs
(i.e., at-sea costs based on realized costs in FY19) are confidential. An estimated rate
for shoreside infrastructure that includes fixed and variable costs for operations,
training, and data processing increased from $515 to $688.
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Industry-funded: The number of industry-funded sea days available for scallop fleets is
determined by taking 1% of the total acceptable biological catch/annual catch limit set for
the year. The Industry Funded Scallop program allows the vessels an increase in landings
to help defray the costs of carrying an observer (i.e., the compensation rate). The sale of
the additional scallops allocated to each boat supplies the funding for the at-sea costs of
observer coverage. Based upon projected landings and expected prices, the IFS program
generates funds in support of discard monitoring of the scallop fleets. A compensation
rate analysis was undertaken to support observer coverage of the 11 industry-funded
scallop fleets (Rows 10-12, and 36-43; Table 5).
Because some NE vessels will be fishing in both NE and MA statistical areas, the New
England and Mid-Atlantic open area limited access trips will be observed at 5%. The
observer compensation rate in the access areas will remain at 250 lb/day because of the
anticipated stability in the prices of scallops. Observer coverage rates for limited access
vessels in the proposed Framework 32 Georges Bank access areas would require at least
10%. For the trips to Nantucket Lightship North and Closed Area I, a 1/2 trip at 9,000 lb
per full-time limited access vessel is proposed. For trips to Nantucket Lightship SouthDeep and Closed Area II East, 1 trip at 18,000 lb is proposed. The coverage rate in the
Mid-Atlantic access area, where there are fewer bycatch concerns as well as the proposed
allocation of 2 trips at 18,000 lb per limited access vessel, would be 5%.
o Based upon the compensation rate analysis and proposed Framework 32 allocations,
a total of 1,890 sea days can be funded: 659 days for Open Areas, 311 days for MidAtlantic Access Areas, and 920 days in the New England Access Areas.
The industry-funded schedule runs April through March
Bulletins describing the 2020 set-aside compensation rate calculations and scallop
management measures are available online.
o Of the 659 days for the Open Areas, there are 63 days for Limited Access General
Category fleets (Rows 11, 12, 40, and 41; Table 7) and 596 days for Limited Access
fleets (Rows 42 and 43; Table 7).
o Coverage of the 11 fleets depends on industry activity among these fleets for April
2020 through March 2021; the sea days represent the maximum coverage (i.e., caps).
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o Projected costs: the average cost to industry for the at-sea portion is $710/day for
industry-funded scallop fleets. Additional agency funds are needed for training and
certification of observers and data processing.
Below is a summary of sea days based on the agency budget and the compensation rate analysis,
by funding source for April 2020 through March 2021.
Funding Source
Agency-funded total
Agency-funded applicable to all species (prioritized days)
Agency-funded applicable to protected species only (nonprioritized days)
Industry-funded scallop total applicable to all species
Total
Sea Days
5,193
4,808
385
1,890
7,083
PRIORITIZATION TRIGGER AND DETAILS OF THE
ALLOCATION OF SEA DAYS TO FLEETS
Within the agency-funded fleets and prioritization-applicable funding, a funding shortfall
of 1,536 (6,344 – 4,808) days is expected (Table 5). The 2020 funding shortfall triggers the SBRM
prioritization approach; the prioritization approach is utilized with a portion of the agency funds.
The following describes the steps taken to allocate the 7,083 funded sea days (Tables 5, 6, and 7).
Step 1. Derive the number of sea days needed for the 14 fish/invertebrate species groups (see
Wigley and Tholke 2020; Table 5).
Step 2. Apply the sea day adjustments to 14 “erroneous” fleets (Rows 9, 16, 18, 21-25, 44, 47, 5659). A total of 6,071 days is needed for fish/invertebrate species group across 48 fleets (37
agency-funded fleets and 11 industry-funded scallop fleets; Table 5).
Step 3. Derive the number of sea days needed for sea turtles (see Murray 2012, 2018, 2020; Table
5).
A total of 2,668 sea days are needed annually to monitor loggerhead interactions with
30% precision across bottom trawl fleets operating in the Mid-Atlantic EPU (Murray
2020).
The 2,668 sea days were adjusted to account for the overlap of spatial strata when fish
and sea turtle sea days are merged. The proportion of New England fishing effort in the
Mid-Atlantic EPU was estimated by using the VTR data from 2014-2018.
Approximately 67% of New England small mesh otter trawl effort and 10% of New
England large mesh otter trawl effort (in terms of days fished) occurred in the MidAtlantic EPU. These proportions were applied to the number of days needed to monitor
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fish in each of the New England otter trawl fleets (988 and 840 days in the New England
small mesh [Row 5] and large mesh [Row 7] otter fleets, respectively (Table 5) yielding
a total of 746 ([0.67 * 988] + [0.10 * 840]) days.
After adjusting, the total number of days needed to monitor loggerhead turtles in the
Mid-Atlantic trawl fleets is 1,922 days (2,668 – 746). The 1,922 days will be integrated
with sea days needed for fish in the SBRM Mid-Atlantic trawl fleets.
Step 4. To integrate the monitoring needs of fish/invertebrates and sea turtles and to support the
penultimate prioritization approach, derive the number of sea days needed for loggerhead
turtles for each of the fish/invertebrate fleets associated with the turtle gear types (Table
5).
a. Summarize the number of VTR sea days corresponding to each fish/invertebrate fleet
(see Table 3 in Wigley and Tholke 2020). The VTR sea days associated with the 15
“erroneous” fleets are given but not used (Table 5, Step 4a, gray shaded cells).
b. Derive the percentage of VTR sea days for each fish/invertebrate fleet within the turtle
gear type. For each fish/invertebrate fleet associated with the turtle gear type, divide
the VTR sea days by the sum of the VTR sea days for the gear type.
c. Derive the percentage of sea days needed for fish/invertebrate for each fish/invertebrate
fleet within the turtle gear type. For each fish/invertebrate fleet associated with a turtle
gear type, divide the adjusted sea days (Step 2) by the sum of the sea days for the gear
type.
d. Derive the number of additional sea days needed for loggerhead turtles.
If the number of sea days needed for loggerhead turtles is less than or equal to the sum
of the sea days needed for the fish/invertebrate fleets associated with the turtle gear
type, then no additional sea days are needed to monitor turtles. The additional sea days
for turtles are set to zero for fish/invertebrate fleets.
If the number of sea days needed for loggerhead turtles is greater than the sum of the
sea days needed for the fish/invertebrate fleets associated with the turtle gear type, then
derive the difference between the sea days needed for loggerhead turtles and the sum
of the sea days needed for fish/invertebrates. For each turtle gear type, multiply the
difference between the number of sea days needed by the percentage of VTR sea days
for each fish/invertebrate fleet within the turtle gear type. These days represent the
number of additional days needed to monitor turtles in the fish/invertebrate fleets.
e. Derive the number of sea days needed for loggerhead turtles by fish/invertebrate fleets.
If the number of sea days needed for loggerhead turtles is less than or equal to the sum
of the sea days needed for the fish/invertebrate fleets associated with the turtle gear
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type, then multiply the sea days needed for turtles by the percentage of sea days needed
for fish for each fish/invertebrate fleet within the turtle gear type (Step 4c).
If the number of sea days needed for loggerhead turtles is greater than the sum of the
sea days needed for the fish/invertebrate fleets associated with the turtle gear type, then
add the sea days needed for fish/invertebrates (Step 2) and the additional days needed
for turtles (Step 4d) for each fish/invertebrate fleet.
Step 5. Derive the number of sea days needed for fish/invertebrates and turtles COMBINED; select
the largest of the 2 sea days (i.e., adjusted sea days needed for the 14 fish/invertebrate
species groups [Step 2] and sea days needed for loggerhead turtles [Step 4e]) within the
fleet.
A total of 7,666 days is needed to achieve a 30% CV on the discards of the 15 species
groups in 2020 (Table 5).
Step 6. Partition fleets into funding source categories and sum the number of sea days needed by
funding source.
There were 6,344 days and 1,322 days needed to achieve a 30% CV for the 15 species
groups for agency-funded and industry-funded scallop fleets, respectively (Table 5).
Step 7. Obtain funded sea days by funding source category. For agency-funded sea days, calculate
the number of sea days applicable to the prioritization process (prioritized versus
nonprioritized days).
There are 4,808 agency-funded days applicable to the prioritization process (Table 5).
Step 8. Evaluate needed sea days versus funded sea days for each funding category, and calculate
shortfall or surplus sea days associated with the prioritization process.
A funding shortfall of 1,536 days is expected for agency-funded fleets (Table 5).
Step 9. Apply the penultimate approach algorithm to allocate sea days to fleets for agency-funded
days that are applicable to prioritization process.
As described in the SBRM Amendment, the number of agency-funded sea days
applicable to the prioritization process is assigned to each fleet (fishing mode) after
sequentially removing the sea days needed for the species group/fleet with the highest sea
day difference between adjacent species groups within a fleet until the sea day shortfall is
removed.
The following describes the steps taken to assign the agency-funded sea days applicable
to the prioritization process by using the penultimate approach (Table 6).
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Step 9.1. For each agency-funded fleet where sea days are needed, list the sea days
needed for the 15 species groups (fish/invertebrates and loggerhead turtles) in
descending order within a fleet (Table 6). The minimum pilot days (Table 4)
serve as the minimum sea days needed for fleets.
Step 9.2. Calculate the differences in sea days between adjacent species groups within
each agency-funded fleet (Table 6).
Step 9.3. Within the resulting matrix of sea day differences (Step 9.2), identify the largest
difference and remove the sea days associated with the species group
accounting for this difference (Table 6).
Repeat this process for the next largest difference, with the constraint that the
differences are taken in penultimate order (from left to right in the matrix)
within a fleet, until the cumulative reduction of sea days equals the sea day
shortfall (Step 8). If the reduction in sea days by using the next largest
(penultimate) value is greater than the shortfall, reduce the number of sea days
only enough to remove the shortfall.
The 2020 sea day shortfall is 1,536 days. The 1,122 days (loggerhead turtles
[TURS] in Row 5; Tables 5 and 6) associated with the largest sea day
difference (479 days) between adjacent species groups is removed first (Table
6). The penultimate value in Row 5 is associated with small mesh groundfish
(GFS, 643 days; Tables 4 and 6). The 753 days (TURS in Row 6; Tables 5 and
6) associated with the second largest sea day difference (389 days) between
adjacent species groups is removed next (Table 6). The penultimate value in
Row 6 is associated with spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias, DOG, 364 days;
Tables 4 and 6). The 428 days (DOG in Row 62; Tables 4, 5, and 6) associated
with the third largest sea days difference (386 days) between adjacent species
groups is removed next (Table 6). The penultimate value in Row 62 is
associated with both monkfish (Lophius americanus) and spiny dogfish
(MONK and DOG, respectively, 42 days; Tables 4 and 6). The 840 days (skate
complex [Rajidae] in Row 8; Tables 4, 5, and 6) are associated with the fourth
largest sea day difference (366 days) between adjacent species groups.
Removing 840 days associated with the skate complex would remove more sea
days than needed to reach the shortfall amount of 1,536 days (Table 6). Thus,
only 282 of the 366 sea day difference between adjacent species groups (840
days for the skate complex and 474 days for fluke-scup-black sea bass
(Paralichthys dentatus, Stenotomus chrysops, Centropristis striata,
respectively; FSB) are needed (Table 6). The penultimate value for Row 8
becomes 558 (840 - 282) days for the skate complex.
Step 9.4. After the removal of sea days within a fleet (Step 9.3), the remaining highest sea
days (i.e., the penultimate or the left-hand-most value in Step 9.1) becomes the
“PRIORITIZED” sea days required for that fleet.
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The 4,808 prioritized sea days provide observer coverage to all 37 agencyfunded fleets. There are 33 fleets for which no reduction in sea days occurred,
and there are 4 fleets (Rows 5, 6, 8, and 62) for which the numbers of sea days
allocated are fewer than the days needed to achieve a 30% CV. The prioritized
sea days for Rows 5, 6, 8, and 62 become 643, 364, 558, and 42 days
respectively (Table 6). For Rows 5 and 6, all fish/invertebrate species groups
have an expected CV of 30% or less; however, the CV for TURS in the MA
otter trawl gear type group is expected to exceed 30%. For Rows 8 and 62, 13
of the 14 fish/invertebrate species groups have an expected CV of 30% or less;
however, the CV for skate complex in New England large mesh otter trawl
(Row 8) and spiny dogfish in New England ocean quahog/surfclam dredge
(Row 62) are expected to exceed 30%.
Step 9.5. Identify fleets that cannot be covered by observer program this year.
In 2020, there are practical limitations that prevent the observer program from
covering 4 fleets (MA and NE floating trap [Rows 26 and 27, respectively], MA
purse seine [Row 34], and NE urchin dredge [Row 60]; Table 7, rose shaded
cells). The observer program currently has no sampling protocols in place for
these fleets and will need time to create new trainings, logs, and/or databases to
support sampling in these fleets. It is unlikely the observer program will be able
to make significant changes to the observer databases or observer manuals this
year. There are 36 sea days associated with the 4 fleets. The 36 prioritized sea
days associated with the 4 fleets have been reallocated to Row 8, the last fleet
impacted by the prioritization process. Row 8 has 593 (557 + 36) prioritized sea
days and the 4 fleets with practical limitations have zero days (Table 7).
The observer program has a current contract with 1 third-party provider for a 5year period that began in 2018.
Step 10. Allocate agency-funded nonprioritized sea days.
There are 385 agency-funded days that are not applicable to the prioritization process
(nonprioritized MMPA days; Table 7).
The 385 MMPA sea days, all assumed to have limited sampling protocols, are allocated to
a row designated as “MMPA coverage” and will be associated with the MA and NE gillnet
fleets (Rows 28-33; Table 7).
Step 11. Allocate industry-funded scallop days. The sea days for the industry-funded scallop fleets
are assigned to trips via the call-in system. The sea day coverage for industry-funded
scallop fleets will depend on industry activity for April 2020 through March 2021 and will
be capped as described above. Because of differences in stratification between the SBRM
and scallop compensation rate analyses, the 1,890 industry-funded scallop sea days have
not been allocated to individual fish/invertebrate fleets, but rather to groups of
fish/invertebrate fleets that correspond to the stratification used in the compensation rate
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analysis: Mid-Atlantic Access Area fleets (Rows 10, 36, and 38; Table 7); Open Areas
fleets (Rows 11, 12, 40, and 41 for Limited Access General Category fleets and Rows 42
and 43 for Limited Access; Table 7); and New England Access Area fleets (Rows 37 and
39; Table 7). The allocated sea days represent the maximum coverage (i.e., caps).
Industry-funded scallop sea days are expected to meet or exceed the SBRM required sea
days for each fleet group corresponding to the stratification used in the compensation rate
analysis (Table 7).
Step 12. The sea days allocated for April 2020 through March 2021 (TOTAL) is the sum of the
prioritized days (Step 9.5), nonprioritized days (Step 10), and industry-funded scallop days
(Step 11). A total of 7,083 days is allocated across 37 fleets (Table 7).
The agency-funded fleets with an * or ** (Table 7) indicate that all or some of the observer
coverage will be assigned via the Pre-Trip Notification System (PTNS; Palmer et al. 2013)
or call-in programs for scallops and herring. This designation means all or some of the
observer coverage within each of these fleets will depend upon industry activity for April
2020 through March 2021. The PTNS sea days for agency-funded fleets will be
proportionally allocated based initially on previous year’s industry activity and then
adjusted to correspond to current year’s activity.
All other fleets will have sea days assigned to fishing trips via the NEFOP sea day schedule.
The prioritized sea days on the NEFOP sea day schedule are provided by fleet. A matrix
of VTR trip percentages by quarter and state within a fleet based on the VTR trips for July
2018 through June 2019 is provided as information on previous industry activity patterns.
This information does not replace third-party provider’s local knowledge of current
industry activity.
DISCUSSION
As a practical matter, fleets with low trip activity within a quarter or overall are very
difficult to “find” unless they are part of PTNS or a call-in program. Attempts to assign observers
can be inefficient since the probability of randomly finding such trips at a specific port or time
period will be very low. While some of the challenges may be overcome with outreach, vessel
selection letters, and other operational efforts, some fleets may fall below practical detection limits,
and therefore some of the sea days associated with low trip activity fleets may not be accomplished.
If any sea days are not accomplished, those sea days will be carried over.
The sample size analysis conducted by Wigley and Tholke (2020) derived the expected CV
of the discard estimates for various species groups over a range of sample sizes for each of the
species groups that were not filtered out by the importance filter (see Table 7 and Figure 3 in
Wigley and Tholke 2020). Deriving the expected CV assumes the variance of the discard estimate
is constant over a range of sample sizes (number of trips).
The estimated 645 prioritized carryover days are the result of unaccomplished sea days
from April 2019 through March 2020. The 645 prioritized carryover days have increased the
number of prioritized sea days to monitor the 15 SBRM species groups for April 2020 through
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March 2021. Because of the unaccomplished sea days from April 2019 through March 2020, it is
possible that the lower observer coverage could lead to discard estimates with CVs that are higher
than the SBRM precision standard for some fleets.
At-Sea Monitoring (ASM) coverage, associated with Northeast Multispecies (groundfish)
FMP, is used for compliance monitoring and is not used to meet SBRM sea day requirements.
Information relating to industry-funded ASM coverage can be found on the Greater Atlantic
Regional Fisheries Office monitoring webpage.
To reduce potential bias within SBRM, data associated with ASM, Atlantic States Marine
Fisheries Commission, and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation were not
used in the 2020 fish/invertebrate analyses (Wigley and Tholke 2020) because these trips may
have different goals/objectives and/or different stratification/sea day allocations than the other
NEFOP trips and IFS trips. This approach follows the 2018 SBRM Fishery Management Action
Team recommendation to exclude individual FMP compliance monitoring trips from future annual
discard estimation, precision, and sample size analyses for fish/invertebrate species groups (Hogan
et al. 2019).
The SBRM analyses use master data and are predicated upon accurately reported and
audited data. To reduce and/or prevent “erroneous” fleets, the VTR master data would benefit from
enhanced data auditing (including data leverage between data collection systems) coupled with
targeted outreach and education to industry members on the importance of accurate reporting.
Additionally, gear code consistency is needed between the fishery dependent data collection
systems (Observer, Vessel Trip Report, and Commercial Fisheries databases).
Trip Selection Systems
The observer program uses 3 systems to select fishing trips for observer coverage: the
PTNS; IFS interactive voice response/call-in program; and the NEFOP Sea Day Schedule selection
protocols that include selection by phone, email, letter, Vessel Monitoring System message, or in
person at the docks (dock intercept). For some fleets, both PTNS and the NEFOP Sea Day
Schedule are used for the groundfish and nongroundfish components of these fleets. The Sea Day
Schedule is used for trips in the nongroundfish component. Amendment 16 of the Northeast
Multispecies FMP specifies that vessel representatives are required to notify NMFS in advance of
planned groundfish declared trips via the PTNS. The PTNS handles the selection of trips for
NEFOP, NEFOP limited (MMPA funded sea days), and ASM coverage for all groundfish trips.
For NEFOP and ASM sampling, trip selection is proportional to the current fishing activity in a
given stratum.
In 2018, the PTNS was modified to allow the system to support multiple sampling
programs with different sampling designs (e.g., SBRM, ASM). This modification allows NMFS
to deploy SBRM coverage in the groundfish fleets consistent with the SBRM requirements. The
NEFOP SBRM sea days are assigned consistent with the fleet-based coverage levels prescribed
by the SBRM. Since SBRM fleets can experience varying levels of NEFOP coverage depending
on the fleet composition of some sectors, some sectors will receive more NEFOP coverage than
others. Hence, sectors may require differing amounts of ASM coverage to achieve the combined
target coverage level. The methods used to apportion observer sea days among the trip selection
systems are described in the 2020 Observer Sea Days by Trip Selection System (NEFSC 2020).
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Expanded Sampling Frame for MA and NE Lobster Pot Fleets
The 2020 SBRM analyses for discard estimation and sample size (Wigley and Tholke
2020) used the VTR (including clam logbook) data to define the sampling frame for the Greater
Atlantic region’s fleets by using data collected from July 2018 through June 2019. Vessels that
hold federal fishing permits have VTR reporting requirements except for vessels that hold only a
federal lobster permit. Consequently, vessels with only a federal lobster permit were not included
in the SBRM data sets. The discard estimates in Wigley and Tholke 2020 appropriately reflect the
underlying data used (e.g., the VTR data used to raise the discard ratios to total discards and the
observed trips used to derive the discard ratios were from the same VTR-based sampling frame).
It is inappropriate to extrapolate beyond the sampling frame used unless it can be shown that the
trips with no VTR reporting requirements have the same landings and discard characteristics as
the trips with VTR reporting requirements. An approach was needed to include all federal trips in
the MA and NE lobster pot fleets such that the SBRM analyses would be based upon information
from all federally permitted vessels.
In April 2016, the agency found that expanding the sampling frame for the MA and NE
lobster pot fleets to include all vessels with a federal permit requires a regulatory change to the
SBRM Amendment. The agency has pursued the required language change through a pending
framework action. The pending SBRM framework action seeks to clarify the Councils’ intent for
the SBRM process to monitor bycatch of federally managed or protected species from the entire
active lobster pot fleet. This pending action would expand the lobster pot sampling frame used in
this analysis by allowing the NEFSC to include fishing activity and catch data (e.g., trip length,
date, pounds kept, port of landing) for all active lobster pot vessels in the annual SBRM analyses
and to assign NEFOP coverage to any federal lobster pot vessel, regardless of whether the vessel
is required to submit VTRs. When the pending SBRM framework action is implemented then,
beginning in the calendar quarter following approval, all active federal lobster vessels may be
eligible for selection. Implementing the pending action would not change the number of sea days
needed for April 2020 through March 2021.
The rest of the SBRM fleets did not need to have the sampling frame expanded because
these vessels have VTR reporting requirements associated with their federal fishing permits and
their fishing trips are already included in the SBRM sampling frame.
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Table 1. A list of the 14 fish and invertebrate species groups and 1 species of sea turtle (in bold),
with species group abbreviations in parentheses and scientific names in italics, and the species
that compose these groups, corresponding to the 13 federal fishery management plans
implemented in the waters off the northeastern United States.
Species/Group
ATLANTIC SALMON (SAL)
BLUEFISH (BLUE)
FLUKE - SCUP - BLACK SEA BASS (FSB)
Black sea bass
Fluke
Scup
HERRING, ATLANTIC (HERR)
LARGE MESH GROUNDFISH (GFL)
American plaice
Atlantic cod
Atlantic halibut
Atlantic wolffish
Haddock
Ocean pout
Pollock
Redfish
White hake
Windowpane flounder
Winter flounder
Witch flounder
Yellowtail flounder
MONKFISH (MONK)
RED DEEPSEA CRAB (RCRAB)
SEA SCALLOP (SCAL)
SKATE COMPLEX (SKATE) 11
Barndoor skate
Clearnose skate
Little skate
Rosette skate
Smooth skate
Thorny skate
Winter skate
SMALL MESH GROUNDFISH (GFS)
Offshore hake
Red hake
Silver hake
SPINY DOGFISH (DOG)
SQUID 12 - BUTTERFISH - MACKEREL (SBM)
Atlantic mackerel
Butterfish
Longfin inshore squid
Northern shortfin squid
SURFCLAM - OCEAN QUAHOG (SCOQ)
Surfclam
Ocean quahog
TILEFISH (TILE) 13
Blueline tilefish
Golden tilefish
LOGGERHEAD TURTLE (TURS)
Scientific Name
Salmo salar
Pomatomus saltatrix
Centropristis striata
Paralichthys dentatus
Stenotomus chrysops
Clupea harengus
Hippoglossoides platessoides
Gadus morhua
Hippoglossus hippoglossus
Anarhichas lupus
Melanogrammus aeglefinus
Zoarces americanus
Pollachius virens
Sebastes fasciatus
Urophycis tenuis
Scophthalmus aquosus
Pseudopleuronectes americanus
Glyptocephalus cynoglossus
Limanda ferruginea
Lophius americanus
Chaceon quinquedens
Placopecten magellanicus
Rajidae
Dipturus laevis
Raja eglanteria
Leucoraja erinacea
Leucoraja garmani
Malacoraja senta
Amblyraja radiata
Leucoraja ocellata
Merluccius albidus
Urophycis chuss
Merluccius bilinearis
Squalus acanthias
Scomber scombrus
Peprilus triacanthus
Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii
Illex illecebrosus
Spisula solidissima
Arctica islandica
Caulolatilus microps
Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps
Caretta caretta
Skate complex comprises 7 species as well as skate, unknown.
Squid, unclassified is included in this species group. Longfin inshore squid and northern shortfin squid are also known as Loligo squid and Illex
squid, respectively.
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Tilefish, unclassified is included in this species group.
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Table 2. Total catch (live lb), Vessel Trip Report landings (kept; live lb), estimated discards (live lb), associated coefficient of variation
(CV), and standard error of the estimated discards (SE; live lb) for 14 Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) species
groups combined, by fleet, based on July 2018 through June 2019 data. Dark shading indicates fleets not considered or with no
observed trips in the annual analysis. These CV were not used in the annual sample size analysis. Blank CV indicates either no discards
or discards equal 0. "P" indicates fleets with "pilot" designation. Taken from Table 5C in Wigley and Tholke 2020.
Species: 14 SBRM SPECIES GROUPS COMBINED
Fleet
Row Gear Type
Access
Area
Trip
Region
Category
Mesh
Group
Total
Kept
1
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
MA
all
1,610,853
1,505,392
Discarded
105,462
CV
0.435
SE
45,884
Pilot
2
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
NE
all
4,413,204
4,116,046
297,158
0.141
41,798
3
Hand Line
OPEN
all
MA
all
264,162
237,011
27,151
0.615
16,696
4
Hand Line
OPEN
all
NE
all
1,211,462
1,134,573
76,889
0.176
13,561
5
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
59,445,317
43,672,477
15,772,840
0.079
1,244,755
6
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
lg
17,935,913
11,615,330
6,320,584
0.111
700,717
7
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
sm
79,303,628
61,970,392
17,333,236
0.114
1,975,343
8
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
77,016,194
56,839,965
20,176,230
0.164
3,318,747
9
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
sm
40,317
40,317
P
10
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
lg
589,872
492,781
11
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
lg
25,134
25,134
P
18
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
sm
693,753
693,753
P
19
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
lg
70,769
70,769
P
20
Otter Trawl, Haddock Separator
OPEN
all
NE
lg
3,951,168
3,105,873
21
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
MA
sm
19,048
19,048
P
22
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
NE
sm
69,357
69,357
P
24
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
NE
sm
1,615,065
1,615,065
P
all
NE
lg
845,295
0.000
0.158
0
P
133,945
25
Otter Trawl, Other
123,200
123,200
P
26
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
MA
all
794
794
P
27
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
NE
all
4,384
4,384
28
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
sm
3,045,457
2,944,604
100,853
0.150
15,124
29
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
lg
4,154,481
3,989,963
164,518
0.193
31,678
30
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
xlg
5,697,264
5,363,696
333,568
0.144
48,094
31
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
sm
0
0
0
32
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
lg
6,576,499
5,622,718
953,781
0.226
215,768
33
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
xlg
23,378,147
20,651,805
2,726,341
0.159
432,830
34
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
11
11
35
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
NE
all
37,651,867
37,651,756
111
0.780
87
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
OPEN
97,091
19
P
P
Table 2, continued. Total catch (live lb), Vessel Trip Report landings (kept; live lb), estimated discards (live lb), associated coefficient of
variation (CV), and standard error of the estimated discards (SE; live lb) for 14 Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM)
species groups combined, by fleet, based on July 2018 through June 2019 data. Dark shading indicates fleets not considered or with no
observed trips in the annual analysis. These CV were not used in the annual sample size analysis. Blank CV indicates either no discards
or discards equal 0. "P" indicates fleets with "pilot" designation. Taken from Table 5C in Wigley and Tholke 2020.
Species: 14 SBRM SPECIES GROUPS COMBINED
Fleet
Row Gear Type
Access
Area
Trip
Region
Category
Mesh
Group
Total
Kept
36
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
all
7,409,937
6,621,185
788,752
0.214
169,159
37
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
NE
all
6,940,209
6,342,177
598,032
0.120
71,565
38
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
MA
all
78,090,677
74,745,881
3,344,796
0.151
506,096
39
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
NE
all
301,575,940
262,552,802
39,023,138
0.063
2,452,145
40
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
all
7,681,976
5,875,383
1,806,593
0.096
173,501
41
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
all
8,026,078
7,260,523
765,555
0.188
144,299
42
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
MA
all
30,697,261
27,736,180
2,961,081
0.153
452,439
43
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
NE
all
116,123,673
103,120,758
13,002,915
0.109
1,419,056
115,936
0.897
104,013
all
all
NE
sm
Discarded
CV
SE
Pilot
45
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
40,472,032
40,356,096
47
Pots and Traps, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
9,625
9,625
48
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
MA
all
542,873
346,797
196,076
0.270
52,870
49
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
NE
all
431,411
264,450
166,961
0.286
47,812
50
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
MA
all
4,263
3,865
398
0.385
153
51
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
NE
all
463,896
462,527
1,369
1.034
1,415
52
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
MA
all
137,128
128,598
8,530
0.342
2,917
53
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
NE
all
722,648
182,463
540,185
0.802
433,212
54
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
MA
all
125,281
89,060
36,221
0.120
4,353
55
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
NE
all
4,815,929
3,812,063
1,003,866
0.230
230,568
56
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
422,013
422,013
P
58
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
MA
all
0
0
P
60
Dredge, Urchin
OPEN
all
NE
all
0
0
P
61
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
MA
all
249,431,129
246,539,038
2,892,091
0.342
988,060
62
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
NE
all
190,170,891
187,444,910
2,725,981
0.210
571,599
13,071,289
11,959,924
1,111,365
0.147
163,868
516,243
516,243
1,386,789,721
1,250,368,773
136,420,948
0.038
5,232,114
Confidential fleets
Other minor fleets
TOTAL
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
20
P
Table 3. The most recent average annual estimates and 5 year pooled estimates of sea turtle (Loggerhead [Caretta caretta], Kemp’s ridley
[Lepidochelys kempii], Leatherback [Dermochelys coriacea], and Green [Chelonia mydas]) interactions and their associated coefficient of
variation (CV) in US commercial fisheries.
Fishery
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Mid-Atlantic
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Mid-Atlantic
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Mid-Atlantic
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Mid-Atlantic
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Georges Bank
Bottom trawl, for fish and scallops,
Georges Bank
Sink Gillnet (Mid-Atlantic and
Georges Bank combined)
Sink Gillnet (Mid-Atlantic and
Georges Bank combined)
Sink Gillnet (Mid-Atlantic and
Georges Bank combined)
Sink Gillnet (Mid-Atlantic and
Georges Bank combined)
Average
Annual
Estimate
114
5 year
Estimate
CV
Years Included
Species*
Reference
571
0.29
01 Jan 2014-2018
Loggerhead
Murray 2020
9
46
0.45
01 Jan 2014 - 2018
Kemp’s ridley
Murray 2020
4
20
0.72
01 Jan 2014 - 2018
Leatherback
Murray 2020
3
17
0.73
01 Jan 2014 - 2018
Green
Murray 2020
2
12
0.70
01 Jan 2014 - 2018
Loggerhead
Murray 2020
1
6
1.0
01 Jan 2014 - 2018
Leatherback
Murray 2020
141
705
0.29
01 Jan 2012-2016
Loggerhead
Murray 2018
29
145
0.43
01 Jan 2012-2016
Kemp’s ridley
Murray 2018
5
27
0.71
01 Jan 2012-2016
Leatherback
Murray 2018
22
112
0.37
01 Jan 2012-2016
Unidentified
hard-shelled
Murray 2018
* Sea day monitoring needs for Kemp’s ridley and leatherback turtles in sink gillnet gear were not projected because of the low encounter rate
of these species.
21
Table 4. The number of sea days needed to achieve a 30% coefficient of variation of the discard estimate for each of the 14 fish and invertebrate
species groups, the number of pilot sea days, the number of minimum pilot sea days, and the maximum number of sea days needed for each fleet
(2020 Sea Days Needed) for fish and invertebrate species groups based on July 2018 through June 2019 data. Bold red font indicates basis for fleet
sea days. "P" indicates fleets with "pilot" designation. Species group abbreviations are given in Table 1. Taken from Table 6B in Wigley and Tholke
2020.
Fleet
Gear
Row Type
1
Longline, Bottom
3
Hand Line
2
4
5
6
7
8
9
Longline, Bottom
Hand Line
Otter Trawl
Otter Trawl
Access
Area
OPEN
Trip
Region
all
MA
Mesh
Size BLUE HERR SAL RCRAB SCAL
all
0
0
0
0
0
all
0
0
0
0
0
OPEN
all
NE
all
OPEN
all
NE
all
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
MA
MA
MA
sm
lg
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
sm
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
sm
GEN
MA
lg
Otter Trawl
10 Otter Trawl, Scallop
11 Otter Trawl, Scallop
12 Otter Trawl, Scallop
13 Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
AA
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
GEN
GEN
all
NE
MA
NE
MA
lg
lg
lg
sm
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
SBM
0
0
0
0
MONK
0
0
0
0
GFL
0
0
0
0
GFS
0
0
0
0
SKATE
0
17
0
0
0
633
577
443
643
440
0
988
0
288
319
494
6
6
6
6
6
0
0
275
0
157
0
147
0
0
0
0
DOG
0
0
0
23
0
0
0
50
14
13
136
31
0
396
755
557
364
161
840
433
6
0
457
137
0
2020
Min
Sea
Pilot Pilot
Days
FSB SCOQ TILE Days Days Needed Pilot
0
0
0
84
84
84
6
161
474
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
167
0
200
0
0
6
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
23
sm
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
18 Otter Trawl, Ruhle
19 Otter Trawl, Ruhle
20 Otter Trawl, Haddock Separator
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
NE
NE
NE
lg
lg
9
0
13
9
0
13
9
0
13
9
0
13
9
0
13
9
0
13
9
7
7
21
21
21
21
21
21
lg
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
149
0
0
0
35
0
0
MA
sm
29
29
29
29
29
29
62
62
62
62
62
62
OPEN
all
NE
MA
sm
all
28 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
30 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
xlg
NE
lg
29 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
31 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
32 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
33 Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
34 Purse Seine
35 Purse Seine
36 Dredge, Scallop
37 Dredge, Scallop
38 Dredge, Scallop
39 Dredge, Scallop
40 Dredge, Scallop
41 Dredge, Scallop
42 Dredge, Scallop
43 Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
all
all
MA
NE
sm
sm
NE
xlg
MA
all
OPEN
all
NE
all
AA
GEN
NE
all
AA
AA
AA
GEN
LIM
LIM
MA
MA
NE
all
all
all
OPEN
GEN
MA
all
OPEN
LIM
MA
all
OPEN
OPEN
GEN
LIM
102
21
all
sm
NE
NE
all
all
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
227
0
0
0
0
0
22
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
64
64
64
64
64
64
64
29
29
29
29
29
29
29
29
62
62
62
62
62
62
62
62
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
68
0
0
6
0
0
0
6
0
0
91
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
142
225
209
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
76
6
0
0
0
0
238
389
299
168
520
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
140
454
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
48
218
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
0
0
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
64
6
0
0
0
23
12
9
23
P
12
P
9
7
7
29
29
P
62
62
64
6
64
6
21
21
13
149
19
225
6
13
209
6
323
87
520
93
140
0
38
76
82
20
16
137
107
93
P
P
P
P
3
59
102
P
14
14
0
P
P
14
15
26
44
P
64
20
0
P
P
102
51
P
6
102
91
22
0
6
3
0
0
P
8
14
3
6
0
5
8
5
31
6
0
P
13
13
55
0
6
13
40
0
0
840
13
21
OPEN
NE
6
13
23
13
12
9
21
23 Otter Trawl, Other
27 Floating Trap
0
988
33
364
22
21
64
all
9
35
13
22
6
21
64
OPEN
0
13
643
22
21
64
26 Floating Trap
0
9
0
21
64
all
0
9
13
6
21
64
OPEN
0
9
13
0
29
14
51
all
64
25 Otter Trawl, Other
0
9
13
0
17
51
NE
64
all
9
13
0
15
51
lg
sm
OPEN
13
0
6
13
5
8
NE
MA
24 Otter Trawl, Other
0
261
64
7
29
64
62
6
21
all
all
9
15
OPEN
OPEN
13
0
21 Otter Trawl, Shrimp
22 Otter Trawl, Shrimp
0
6
5
23
13
0
6
5
23
lg
0
6
5
sm
MA
0
6
5
MA
all
0
6
5
all
OPEN
0
6
5
OPEN
17 Otter Trawl, Ruhle
0
6
5
16 Otter Trawl, Ruhle
0
6
5
lg
sm
6
5
MA
NE
6
5
all
all
6
5
OPEN
OPEN
6
5
14 Otter Trawl, Twin
15 Otter Trawl, Twin
6
5
67
15
26
91
20
16
454
P
Table 4, continued. The number of sea days needed to achieve a 30% coefficient of variation of the discard estimate for each of the 14 fish and
invertebrate species groups, the number of pilot sea days, the number of minimum pilot sea days, and the maximum number of sea days needed
for each fleet (2020 Sea Days Needed) for fish and invertebrate species groups based on July 2018 through June 2019 data. Bold red font
indicates basis for fleet sea days. "P" indicates fleets with "pilot" designation. Species group abbreviations are given in Table 1. Taken from
Table 6B in Wigley and Tholke 2020.
Fleet
Gear
Row Type
44 Danish Seine
45 Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
46 Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
47 Pots and Traps, Other
48 Pots and Traps, Fish
Access
Area
Trip
Region
all
all
all
MA
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
NE
MA
NE
MA
Mesh
Size BLUE HERR SAL RCRAB SCAL
all
sm
sm
all
all
49 Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
NE
all
51 Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
NE
all
50 Pots and Traps, Conch
52 Pots and Traps, Lobster
53 Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
MA
MA
NE
all
all
all
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
13
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
all
MA
all
56 Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
18
18
18
MA
all
12
12
12
NE
all
57 Beam Trawl
58 Dredge, Other
59 Dredge, Other
60 Dredge, Urchin
61 Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
62 Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
OPEN
all
all
all
all
all
all
all
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
NE
NE
NE
MA
NE
all
lg
all
all
all
Totals
0
18
3
3
0
0
436
0
12
OPEN
OPEN
0
12
0
18
3
3
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
46
18
18
3
3
0
0
436 436
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
12
0
0
0
0
3
SCOQ
13
0
3
FSB
13
0
3
DOG
13
0
3
SKATE
3
0
3
GFS
3
0
3
GFL
3
0
3
MONK
3
54 Pots and Traps, Crab
55 Pots and Traps, Crab
SBM
3
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
255
0
0
0
0
3
0
12
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2020
Min
Sea
Days
Pilot Pilot
TILE Days Days Needed Pilot
3
3
3
P
3
0
31
31
31
13
13
13
P
13
12
12
12
P
12
0
17
13
13
0
26
15
15
0
24
13
13
0
26
12
12
0
35
20
20
0
437
0
79
0
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
18
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
3
3
0
0
482
18
3
3
18
3
3
18
3
3
0
33
663 2,057
2,511
0
0
0
23
42
18
3
3
0
0
1,718
18
3
3
0
18
3
3
0
0
42
1,858
3,053
18
3
3
0
428
3,993
18
3
3
0
0
2,279
18
3
3
0
0
436
18
3
3
0
0
436
22
18
18
12
3
3
73
51
17
22
79
18
18
12
3
3
23
255
22
79
18
P
12
P
18
3
3
33
18
428
3,575 1,651
6,404
P
P
P
Table 5. The number of sea days needed to monitor fish/invertebrates (FISH), loggerhead turtles (TURS), combined species groups (COMBINED)
by fleet (Steps 1 through 6); the number of funded sea days for April 2020 through March 2021 (Step 7); and the differences between needed and
funded days (Step 8).
Step 1
Fleet
Row
Gear Type
Access
Area
Step 2
2020 Sea
2020 Sea Days
Days Needed Needed for FISH
ADJUSTED
for FISH
Step 3
2020
Sea Days
Needed for
TURS
Step 4a
Vessel Trip
Report Sea
Days
Step 4b
% Vessel
Trip Report
Sea Days
Step 4c
Step 4d
Step 4e
% Sea
Additional Sea TURS Sea
Days
Needed Days needed Days by
for TURS
FISH fleet
for FISH
Step 5
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
1
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
MA
all
84
84
889
84
2
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
NE
all
17
17
942
17
3
Hand Line
OPEN
all
MA
all
14
14
3,231
14
4
Hand Line
OPEN
all
NE
all
13
13
2,351
5
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
643
643
8,335
0.542
0.619
479
1,122
1,122
6
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
lg
364
364
6,777
0.440
0.351
389
753
753
7
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
sm
988
988
10,008
8
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
840
840
13,045
9
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
sm
6
0
18
0.000
0.000
0
0
0
10
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
lg
13
13
209
0.014
0.013
12
25
25
11
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
lg
5
5
28
0.002
0.005
2
7
7
12
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
lg
8
8
12
8
13
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
sm
51
51
223
51
14
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
lg
6
6
49
6
15
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
NE
sm
22
22
75
22
16
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
sm
23
0.0
36
0.000
0.000
0
0
0
17
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
lg
13
13
41
0.003
0.013
2
15
15
18
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
sm
12
0
42
19
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
lg
9
9
30
9
20
Otter Trawl, Haddock Separator
OPEN
all
NE
lg
102
102
473
102
21
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
MA
sm
64
0
2,328
0
22
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
NE
sm
7
0
44
23
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
MA
sm
29
0
38
24
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
NE
sm
64
0
360
0
25
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
NE
lg
62
0
123
0
26
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
MA
all
6
6
14
6
27
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
NE
all
21
21
113
21
28
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
sm
13
13
29
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
lg
149
149
30
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
xlg
14
31
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
sm
32
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
33
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
34
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
35
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
NE
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
1,922
13
988
840
0
0
0.000
0.000
0
0
0
2,002
0.387
0.074
275
288
288
1,731
0.335
0.847
238
387
387
14
1,439
0.278
0.080
198
212
212
3
3
31
3
lg
225
225
2,558
225
NE
xlg
209
209
4,529
209
MA
all
6
6
305
6
all
14
14
813
14
24
887
Table 5, continued. The number of sea days needed to monitor fish/invertebrates (FISH), loggerhead turtles (TURS), combined species groups
(COMBINED) by fleet (Steps 1 through 6); the number of funded sea days for April 2020 through March 2021 (Step 7); and the differences between
needed and funded days (Step 8).
Step 1
Fleet
Row
Access
Area
Gear Type
Step 2
2020 Sea
2020 Sea Days
Days Needed Needed for FISH
for FISH
ADJUSTED
Step 3
2020
Sea Days
Needed for
TURS
Step 4a
Vessel Trip
Report Sea
Days
Step 4b
% Vessel
Trip Report
Sea Days
Step 4c
Step 4d
Step 4e
% Sea
Additional Sea TURS Sea
Days
Needed Days needed Days by
FISH fleet
for TURS
for FISH
Step 5
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
36
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
all
15
15
2,182
15
37
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
NE
all
26
26
2,537
26
38
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
MA
all
91
91
4,646
91
39
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
NE
all
520
520
16,150
520
40
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
all
20
20
1,908
20
41
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
all
16
16
4,097
16
42
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
MA
all
140
140
2,085
140
43
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
NE
all
454
454
6,019
454
44
Danish Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
3
0
26
0
45
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
all
all
NE
sm
31
31
505
31
46
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
OPEN
all
MA
sm
13
13
76
13
47
Pots and Traps, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
12
0
365
0
48
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
735
13
49
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
NE
all
15
15
928
15
50
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
1,069
13
51
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
NE
all
12
12
1,180
12
52
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
MA
all
20
20
1,661
20
53
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
NE
all
255
255
34,614
255
54
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
MA
all
22
22
51
22
55
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
NE
all
79
79
666
79
56
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
18
0
49
0
57
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
18
0
30
0
58
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
MA
all
12
0
310
0
59
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
3
0
7
0
60
Dredge, Urchin
OPEN
all
NE
all
3
3
10
3
61
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
MA
all
33
33
3,668
33
62
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
NE
all
2,573
151,389
428
7,666
6,344
1,322
4,808
385
1,890
Total
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Step 6
Step 7
Turtle Gear Types
Fleets identified as "erroneous"
Steps used in sea day allocation
428
6,071
4,763
1,308
-1,536
568
SHORTFALL
SURPLUS
MA Trawl
1,096
1,038
1,922
15,390
MA Gillnet
176
176
887
5,172
Industry funded fleets
Fleets with NEFOP Limitation
Fleets with reduction in sea days
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
2,809
Prioritized
Non-prioritized (MMPA)
Agency Fleet Difference
Industry Fleet Difference
Step 8
KEY: Agency funded fleets
428
6,404
5,090
1,314
25
884
884
711
711
Difference between taxa
1,922
1,922
887
887
Table 6. The 2020 sea days needed (COMBINED; Step 5) and the information used in the penultimate approach to prioritize sea days to fleets for
agency-funded days that are applicable to the prioritization process (Steps 9.1 through 9.5).
Step 5
Fleet
Row
Gear Type
Access
Area
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
Step 9.1
Step 9.2
Penultimate sea days needed for the 15 species groups, in
descending order with minimum pilot coverage as minimum
for fleet
Step 9.3
Sea day differences between adjacent species groups
within a row (red font indicated values used in Step
9.3)
Sea day
differences, in
descending order
with fleet constraint
Step 9.4
Cumulative
reduction of
sea days
Step 9.5
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
1
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
MA
all
84
84
0
479
479
84
84
2
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
NE
all
17
15
2
389
868
17
17
3
Hand Line
OPEN
all
MA
all
14
14
0
386
1,254
14
14
4
Hand Line
OPEN
all
NE
all
13
13
0
282 of 366
1,536
13
13
5
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
1,122
643
3
643
643
6
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
lg
753
364
275
161
137
31
7
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
sm
988
755
557
494
319
288
35
8
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
840
474
433
161
157
147
33
9
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
sm
0
10
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
lg
25
11
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
lg
12
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
lg
8
13
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
sm
51
51
14
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
lg
6
6
15
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
NE
sm
22
16
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
sm
17
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
lg
18
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
sm
19
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
lg
20
Otter Trawl, Haddock Separator
OPEN
all
NE
21
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
22
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
23
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
24
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
25
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
26
Floating Trap
27
633
577
457
443
479
440
120
14
114
24
106
31
364
364
63
175
31
253
988
988
272
4
10
114
558
594
0
51
51
0
6
6
22
0
22
22
0
0
0
0
0
15
13
2
15
15
0
0
0
0
0
9
9
0
9
9
lg
102
102
0
102
102
MA
sm
0
0
0
0
0
NE
sm
0
0
0
0
0
MA
sm
0
0
0
0
0
NE
sm
0
0
0
0
0
all
NE
lg
0
0
0
0
0
OPEN
all
MA
all
6
6
0
6
0
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
NE
all
21
21
0
21
0
28
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
sm
288
13
275
288
288
29
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
lg
387
149
238
387
387
30
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
xlg
212
14
198
212
212
31
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
sm
3
3
0
3
3
32
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
lg
225
19
206
225
225
33
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
xlg
209
142
67
209
209
34
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
6
6
0
6
0
35
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
NE
all
14
14
0
14
14
36
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
all
15
37
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
NE
all
26
38
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
MA
all
91
39
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
NE
all
520
40
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
all
20
41
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
all
16
42
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
MA
all
140
43
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
NE
all
454
44
Danish Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
0
0
0
0
0
45
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
all
all
NE
sm
31
31
0
31
31
46
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
OPEN
all
MA
sm
13
13
0
13
47
Pots and Traps, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
0
0
0
0
0
48
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
0
13
13
49
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
NE
all
15
15
0
15
15
50
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
0
13
13
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
10
56
389
89
233
198
366
41
7
13
68
26
13
Table 6, continued. The 2020 sea days needed (COMBINED; Step 5) and the information used in the penultimate approach to prioritize sea days to
fleets for agency-funded days that are applicable to the prioritization process (Steps 9.1 through 9.5).
Fleet
Step 5
Step 9.1
Step 9.2
Penultimate sea days needed for the 15 species groups, in
descending order with minimum pilot coverage as minimum
for fleet
Sea day differences between adjacent species groups
within a row (red font indicated values used in Step
9.3)
Step 9.3
Step 9.4
Step 9.5
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
51
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
NE
all
12
12
0
12
12
52
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
MA
all
20
20
0
20
20
53
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
NE
all
255
17
238
255
255
54
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
MA
all
22
22
0
22
22
55
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
NE
all
79
79
0
79
79
56
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
0
0
0
0
0
57
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
0
0
0
0
0
58
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
MA
all
0
0
0
0
0
59
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
0
0
0
0
0
60
Dredge, Urchin
OPEN
all
NE
all
3
3
0
3
0
61
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
MA
all
33
33
0
33
33
62
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
NE
all
428
7,666
6,344
1,322
4,808
385
1,890
-1,536
568
42
386
42
4,808
42
4,808
Row
Access
Area
Gear Type
Step 6
Step 7
Step 8
Total
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Agency Fleet Difference
Industry Fleet Difference
Turtle Gear Types
KEY: Agency funded fleets
Fleets identified as "erroneous"
Steps used in sea day allocation
MA Trawl
MA Gillnet
Prioritized days
Non-prioritized days (MMPA)
Industry-funded scallop days
1,922
887
Industry funded fleets
Fleets with NEFOP Limitation
Fleets with reduction in sea days
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations.
27
Sea day
differences, in
descending order
with fleet constraint
Cumulative
reduction of
sea days
Table 7. The number of sea days needed to monitor the combined species groups (COMBINED; Step 5), prioritized days (Step 9.5),
nonprioritized days (Marine Mammal Protection Act [MMPA]; Step 10), industry-funded scallop days (Step 11), and the 2020 observer sea days
allocated for April 2020 through March 2021 (Step 12), by fleet. Note: * indicates all coverage is dependent on industry activity; ** indicates
some coverage is dependent on industry activity; *** indicates coverage for protected species bycatch.
Step 5
Fleet
Step 9.5
Step 11
Step 12
2020
Sea Days
non-prioritized
(MMPA)
2020
Sea Days
Industryfunded
Scallop
Sea Days
Allocated for
April 2020 March 2021
(TOTAL)
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
1
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
MA
all
84
84
84
Fish stock assessment support
2
Longline, Bottom
OPEN
all
NE
all
17
17
17
Fish stock assessment support **
3
Hand Line
OPEN
all
MA
all
14
14
14
Fish stock assessment support
4
Hand Line
OPEN
all
NE
all
13
13
13
Fish stock assessment support **
5
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
1,122
643
643
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support
6
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
lg
753
364
364
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support **
7
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
sm
988
988
988
Fish stock assessment support **
8
Otter Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
840
594
594
Fish stock assessment support **
9
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
sm
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
10
Otter Trawl, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
lg
25
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 36 )
11
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
lg
7
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 40 )
12
Otter Trawl, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
lg
8
13
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
sm
51
51
51
Fish stock assessment support *
14
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
MA
lg
6
6
6
Fish stock assessment support
15
Otter Trawl, Twin
OPEN
all
NE
sm
22
22
22
Fish stock assessment support
16
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
17
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
MA
lg
15
15
15
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support *
18
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
19
Otter Trawl, Ruhle
OPEN
all
NE
lg
9
9
9
Fish stock assessment support *
20
Otter Trawl, Haddock Separator
OPEN
all
NE
lg
102
102
102
Fish stock assessment support *
21
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
MA
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
22
Otter Trawl, Shrimp
OPEN
all
NE
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
23
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
MA
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
24
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
NE
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
25
Otter Trawl, Other
OPEN
all
NE
lg
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
26
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
MA
all
6
0
0
Fleet removed (NEFOP limitation)
27
Floating Trap
OPEN
all
NE
all
21
0
0
Fleet removed (NEFOP limitation)
28
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
sm
288
288
288
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support
29
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
lg
387
387
387
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support
30
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
MA
xlg
212
212
212
Fish stock assessment and turtle bycatch support **
31
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
sm
3
3
3
32
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
lg
225
225
225
Fish stock assessment support **
33
Gillnet, Sink, Anchor, Drift
OPEN
all
NE
xlg
209
209
209
Fish stock assessment support **
34
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
6
0
0
Fleet removed (NEFOP limitation)
35
Purse Seine
OPEN
all
NE
all
14
14
14
Fish stock assessment support **
Row
Gear Type
Access
Area
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
Step 10
Comments
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 40 )
28
Fish stock assessment support
Table 7, continued. The number of sea days needed to monitor the combined species groups (COMBINED; Step 5), prioritized days (Step 9.5),
nonprioritized days (Marine Mammal Protection Act [MMPA]; Step 10), industry-funded scallop days (Step 11), and the 2020 observer sea days
allocated for April 2020 through March 2021 (Step 12), by fleet. Note: * indicates all coverage is dependent on industry activity; ** indicates
some coverage is dependent on industry activity; *** indicates coverage for protected species bycatch.
Step 5
Fleet
Step 9.5
Step 11
Step 12
2020
Sea Days
non-prioritized
(MMPA)
2020
Sea Days
Industryfunded
Scallop
Sea Days
Allocated for
April 2020 March 2021
(TOTAL)
Trip Cat.
Region
Mesh
2020
Sea Days
Needed
COMBINED
36
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
MA
all
15
311
311
Industry funded scallop * (Rows 9, 10, 36, & 38 )
37
Dredge, Scallop
AA
GEN
NE
all
26
920
920
Industry funded scallop * (Rows 37 & 39 )
38
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
MA
all
91
39
Dredge, Scallop
AA
LIM
NE
all
520
40
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
MA
all
20
41
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
GEN
NE
all
16
42
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
MA
all
140
43
Dredge, Scallop
OPEN
LIM
NE
all
454
44
Danish Seine
OPEN
all
MA
all
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
45
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
all
all
NE
sm
31
31
31
Fish stock assessment support **
46
Trawl, Midwater Paired&Single
OPEN
all
MA
sm
13
13
13
Fish stock assessment support *
47
Pots and Traps, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
48
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
13
Fish stock assessment support
49
Pots and Traps, Fish
OPEN
all
NE
all
15
15
15
Fish stock assessment support
50
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
MA
all
13
13
13
Fish stock assessment support
51
Pots and Traps, Conch
OPEN
all
NE
all
12
12
12
Fish stock assessment support
52
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
MA
all
20
20
20
Fish stock assessment support
53
Pots and Traps, Lobster
OPEN
all
NE
all
255
255
255
Fish stock assessment support
54
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
MA
all
22
22
22
Fish stock assessment support
55
Pots and Traps, Crab
OPEN
all
NE
all
79
79
79
Fish stock assessment support
56
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
MA
sm
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
57
Beam Trawl
OPEN
all
NE
lg
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
58
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
MA
all
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
59
Dredge, Other
OPEN
all
NE
all
0
0
0
Fleet removed (erroneous fleet)
60
Dredge, Urchin
OPEN
all
NE
all
3
0
0
Fleet removed (NEFOP limitation)
61
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
MA
all
33
33
33
Fish stock assessment support
62
Dredge, Ocean Quahog/Surfclam
OPEN
all
NE
all
428
42
42
385
7,083
Row
Gear Type
Access
Area
2020
Sea Days
PRIORITIZED
(Penultimate)
Step 10
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 36 )
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 37 )
Total
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Needed)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Agency Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Industry Fleets (Sea Days Funded)
Agency Fleet Difference
Industry Fleet Difference
Step 7
Step 8
Turtle Gear Types
KEY: Agency funded fleets
Fleets identified as "erroneous"
Steps used in sea day allocation
MA Trawl
MA Gillnet
7,666
6,344
1,322
4,808
385
1,890
-1,536
568
63
596
596
Industry funded scallop * (Rows 11, 12, 40, & 41 )
Industry funded scallop * (Rows 42 & 43 )
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 42 )
4,808
385
385
1,890
Prioritized days
Non-prioritized days (MMPA)
Industry-funded scallop days
4,808
385
1,890
1,922
887
Industry funded fleets
Fleets with NEFOP Limitation
Fleets with reduction in sea days
See Appendix Table 1 for fleet abbreviations
63
Industry funded scallop * (see Row 40 )
MMPA coverage
Step 6
Comments
29
Fish stock assessment support
Coverage associated with Rows 28-33***
x
Appendix Table 1. Stratification abbreviations used for 2020 fleets.
Abbreviation
NE
MA
Sm
Lg
Xlg
AA
OPEN
GEN
LIM
Definition
New England ports (RI and northward)
Mid-Atlantic ports (CT and southward)
Small mesh (less than 5.50 in)
Large mesh (from 5.50 to 7.99 in for gillnet; 5.50 in and greater for trawl)
Extra large mesh (8.00 in and greater for gillnet)
Access area
Nonaccess area
General category
Limited access category
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| File Title | TM 262: 2020 Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology Annual Discard Report with Observer Sea Day Allocation |
| Subject | Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology |
| Author | NEFSC and GARFO |
| File Modified | 2020-11-10 |
| File Created | 2020-04-23 |