Community Harvest Permit Log

Revised: 06/25/2020

OMB Control Number 0648-0512 Expiration date: 03/31/2024

Subsistence Halibut Community
Harvest Permit (CHP) Log

U.S. Dept of Commerce/NOAA
National Marine Fisheries Service
Restricted Access Management
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, Alaska 99802-1668
Telephone: 1-800-304-4846
FAX: 907-586-7354

This form is used to record harvest information when fishing with a Community Harvest Permit.
BLOCK A – CHP COORDINATOR
2. Signature of CHP Coordinator

1. Name of CHP Coordinator

BLOCK B -- SUBSISTENCE FISHERMAN IDENTIFICATION
1. Name (First, Middle, Last)
2. Community of Residence
3. Date of Birth

4. Tribal Affiliation

5. SHARC No.

6. Mailing Address (Number, Street, City, State, Zip Code)

7. Daytime Telephone Number

8. Did you subsistence fish for halibut during the period indicated on the permit? (Check one)
☐ Y ES

☐ NO

If YES, complete the following harvest information.
Local Water
Halibut
Date of
IPHC
Body, Bay, or
Harvest
Reg. Area Number
Pounds
Sound

Type of
Gear
Used

No. of
Hooks
Set

No. of
Lingcod

No. of
Rockfish

BLOCK B -- SUBSISTENCE FISHERMAN IDENTIFICATION
1. Name (First, Middle, Last)
2. Community of Residence

3. Date of Birth

4. Tribal Affiliation

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5. SHARC No.

6. Mailing Address (Number, Street, City, State, Zip Code)

7. Daytime Telephone Number

8. Did you subsistence fish for halibut during the period indicated on the permit? (Check one)
☐ Y ES

☐ NO

If YES, complete the following harvest information.
Local Water
Halibut
Date of
IPHC
Body, Bay, or
Harvest
Reg. Area Number
Pounds
Sound

Type of
Gear
Used

No. of
Hooks
Set

No. of
Lingcod

No. of
Rockfish

BLOCK B -- SUBSISTENCE FISHERMAN IDENTIFICATION
1. Name (First, Middle, Last)
2. Community of Residence
3. Date of Birth

4. Tribal Affiliation

5. SHARC No.

6. Mailing Address (Number, Street, City, State, Zip Code)

7. Daytime Telephone Number

8. Did you subsistence fish for halibut during the period indicated on the permit? (Check one)
☐ Y ES

☐ NO

If YES, complete the following harvest information.
Local Water
Halibut
Date of
IPHC
Body, Bay, or
Harvest
Reg. Area Number
Pounds
Sound

Type of
Gear
Used

No. of
Hooks
Set

No. of
Lingcod

No. of
Rockfish

BLOCK B -- SUBSISTENCE FISHERMAN IDENTIFICATION
1. Name (First, Middle, Last)
2. Community of Residence
3. Date of Birth

4. Tribal Affiliation

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5. SHARC No.

6. Mailing Address (Number, Street, City, State, Zip Code)

7. Daytime Telephone Number

8. Did you subsistence fish for halibut during the period indicated on the permit? (Check one)
☐ Y ES

☐ NO

If YES, complete the following harvest information.
Local Water
Halibut
Date of
IPHC
Body, Bay, or
Harvest
Reg. Area Number
Pounds
Sound

Type of
Gear
Used

No. of
Hooks
Set

No. of
Lingcod

No. of
Rockfish

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT
A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a penalty for
failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the
information collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection
is 0648-0512. Without this approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is
estimated to be approximately 30 minutes per fisherman, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources,
gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information collection. All responses to this information
collection are required to obtain a permit. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this information
collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, Alaska
Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21688. Juneau, AK 99802-1668.
PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT
Authority: The collection of this information is authorized under the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982, 16 U.S.C. 773c.
Purpose: NMFS is collecting this information to manage the Subsistence Halibut Program
Routine Uses: NMFS uses this information to monitor subsistence halibut harvest and determine compliance with program requirements.
Responses to this information request are confidential under section 402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act. They are also confidential
under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics. Disclosure of this
information is permitted under the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. Section 552a) to be shared among authorized staff for work-related
purposes. Disclosure of this information is also subject to the published routine uses identified in the Privacy Act System of Records
Notice COMMERCE/NOAA-19, Permits and Registrations for the United States Federally Regulated Fisheries.
Disclosure: Furnishing this information is required to obtain or retain benefits. Failure to provide complete and accurate information may
delay or prevent an eligible person from receiving a subsistence halibut community harvest permit.

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Instructions
SUBSISTENCE HALIBUT
COMMUNITY HARVEST PERMIT (CHP) LOG
The Subsistence Halibut Fishery is authorized by Federal regulations at 50 CFR part 300 and provides for
eligible persons to conduct subsistence halibut fishing in Convention waters off Alaska. Subsistence halibut is
halibut caught by an eligible rural resident or member of an Alaska Native tribe for direct personal or family
consumption as food, sharing for personal or family consumption as food, or for customary trade. Subsistence
fishing for halibut may be conducted only by persons who qualify for such fishing pursuant to paragraph 50
CFR 300.65(g) and who hold a valid subsistence halibut registration certificate (SHARC) in that person's name.
Subsistence halibut fishing may be conducted in IPHC Regulatory Areas as shown in Figure 15 to 50 CFR part
679.
Each CHP will be valid only for the period of time specified on the permit. A CHP will expire one year from
the date of issuance to a community or Alaska Native tribe eligible to harvest halibut. A community or Alaska
Native tribe may renew its CHP. A CHP consists of five laminated CHP cards and one CHP log.
NOTE: As a prerequisite for receiving additional permits, all previously issued harvest logs must be returned
to NMFS at the time of application for a new permit. A community or tribe that fails to return previously
issued harvest logs will not receive any additional permit until all previously issued harvest logs are returned to
NMFS.
Eligible communities or Alaska Native tribes may appoint one CHP Coordinator per community or tribe. Each
fisherman must have one of the laminated CHP cards as well as his or her valid SHARC in his or her possession
when fishing under the CHP.
The CHP Coordinator must maintain the CHP Harvest Log.
Each CHP Coordinator must ensure:
● The designated harvesters who may fish under the CHP are identified on the CHP Harvest Log when the
CHP is issued to the designated harvesters;
●

The CHP remains in the possession of the CHP Coordinator or other tribal or government authority
when not in use and is issued to the designated harvesters when necessary; and

●

All required recordkeeping and data reporting of subsistence harvests under the CHP are performed.

Each CHP Harvest Log must be submitted to NMFS on or before the date of expiration by fax or mail, as
provided below.
By mail to:

NMFS, Alaska Region
Restricted Access Management (RAM)
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, AK 99802-1668

By fax to:

907–586–7354

If you have questions or need additional information, please—
● call RAM at (800) 304-4846 (select option 2) or (907) 586-7202 (select option 2);
● fax RAM at (907) 586-7354;
● e-mail your questions to RAM.Alaska@noaa.gov; or
● check our web site at https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/alaska/sustainable-fisheries/subsistence-halibutfishing-alaska.
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COMPLETING THE LOG
BLOCK A – CHP COORDINATOR
Enter the name and signature of the person designated as the CHP Coordinator. By signing this field, the
coordinator acknowledges that the recorded information is correct and complete.
BLOCK B -- SUBSISTENCE FISHERMAN IDENTIFICATION
Enter the following information for each subsistence halibut fisherman:
1. Name of fisherman. Enter full name (first, middle, last). Please include any suffixes such as Jr. or Sr.
2. Community of residence (city and state). This community must be one of the rural communities listed in
CFR 300.65(f)(1).
3. Date of birth (month/day/year).
4. Tribal affiliation. Enter the name of the Alaska Native tribe that qualifies the fisherman as eligible to
fish for subsistence halibut. This tribe must be one of the Alaska Native tribes listed in 50 CFR
300.65(f)(2).
5. SHARC number. Enter the Subsistence Halibut Registration Certificate (SHARC) number of the
fisherman.
6. Mailing address (number, street, city, state, zip code)
7. Daytime telephone number. Include area code.
8. Indicate YES or NO whether fisherman did subsistence halibut fishing during the period indicated on the
special permit.
If YES, complete the following harvest information:
9. Date of harvest
10. Name of local water body, bay, or sound. Record the location where the fisherman did most of the
subsistence halibut fishing under this special permit.
11. IPHC Regulatory Area. Record the International Pacific Halibut Commission Regulatory Area (IPHC)
that describes the location where the fisherman did the subsistence halibut fishing under this permit.
These regulatory areas are listed in Figure 15 to 50 CFR part 679.
12. Number and pounds of halibut caught. Identify both the number and pounds of halibut harvested.
13. Type of gear used.
14. Number of hooks set.
15. Number of incidental lingcod and incidental rockfish caught. DO NOT include all the lingcod and
rockfish the fisherman harvested, but just those the fisherman harvested while subsistence halibut
fishing under this special permit. “Rockfish” means all fish of the genus Sebastes. These include red
snapper and black bass. “Rockfish” does NOT include sculpin, greenling, or cod. Please do not include
these other fish in the harvest estimates for rockfish.
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