VMS Declaration Report Worksheet

OMB Control No. 0648-0573; Expires 12/31/2025

Declaration Report Worksheet

This worksheet is for your own use and is intended to help you organize
information that will be submitted in a declaration report.
Please do not submit this worksheet to NMFS.

1) Dial 1-888-585-5518 to connect to the West Coast Groundfish Declaration Line.
2) You will be connected to a live operator during normal business hours to file a declaration or be
asked to leave a voice mail declaration after hours, on weekends or holidays.
3) Provide your vessel identification number to the operator or voicemail.
Vessel
VesselNumber
Number

4) Provide your 5 digit vessel pass code to the operator or voicemail.
Vessel Pass code

5) Provide the two digit code from the list below, to the operator or voicemail.
Code
10 - Limited entry fixed gear, not including
shorebased IFQ
11 - Limited entry groundfish non-trawl,
shorebased IFQ
12 - Limited entry fixed gear non-bottom contact
stationary vertical jig gear
13 - Limited entry fixed gear non-bottom contact
groundfish troll gear
14 - Limited entry groundfish non-trawl,
shorebased IFQ, non-bottom contact stationary
vertical jig gear
15 - Limited entry groundfish non-trawl,
shorebased IFQ, non-bottom contact groundfish
troll gear
20 - Limited entry midwater trawl gear, nonwhiting shorebased IFQ,
21 - Limited entry midwater trawl, Pacific whiting
shorebased IFQ
22 - Limited entry midwater trawl, Pacific whiting
catcher/processor sector
23 - Limited entry midwater trawl, Pacific whiting
mothership sector (catcher vessel or mothership)
30 - Limited entry bottom trawl, shorebased IFQ,
not including demersal trawl or selective flatfish
trawl
31 - Limited entry demersal trawl, shorebased IFQ
32 - Limited entry selective flatfish trawl,
shorebased IFQ

33 - Open access longline gear for groundfish 34 Open access groundfish trap or pot gear
35 - Open access non-bottom contact hook and
line gear for groundfish (e.g., troll, jig gear, rod &
reel gear)
36 - Open access non-bottom contact stationary
vertical jig gear
37 - Open access non-bottom contact groundfish
troll gear
40 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for ridgeback
prawn
41 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for pink shrimp
42 - Non-groundfish trawl gear for CA halibut 43
- Non-groundfish trawl gear for sea cucumber 50
- Tribal trawl gear
60 - Open access prawn trap or pot gear,
61 - Open access Dungeness crab trap or pot gear,
62 - Open access Pacific Halibut longline gear 63
- Open access salmon troll gear
64 - Open access California halibut line gear
65 - Open access sheephead trap or pot gear
66 - Open access Highly Migratory Species line
gear
67 - Open access Coastal Pelagic Species net gear
68 - Open access set net or gillnet gear -California
69 – Other, a gear that is not listed above
70 – Gear testing, Trawl Rationalization fishery

6) For your records, record the confirmation number provided by the operator. Re-enter the
confirmation number in the area provided below.
Confirmation Number

7) Ask the operator to review the information in your declaration. Once you confirm that your
declaration report is correct you may disconnect from the West Coast Groundfish Declaration Line.

Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 4 minutes per response, including
the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and
completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
suggestions for reducing this burden to Karen Palmigiano, National Marine Fisheries Service/Northwest Region, at
karen.palmigiano@noaa.gov.
This information is confidential under Section 402 of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be
subjected to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the
Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number.