IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report

Revised: 04/25/2019

OMB Control No. 0648-0711

IFQ REGISTERED BUYER
Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report

Expiration Date: XX/XX/20XX

U.S. Department of Commerce/NOAA
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Restricted Access Management (RAM)
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau, Alaska 99802-1668
(800) 304-4846 toll free / (907)586-7202
(907) 586-7354 fax / ram.alaska@noaa.gov

This application may be submitted ONLINE. https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/login

A complete IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report must be postmarked or received by the
Regional Administrator no later than October 15 following the reporting period in which the IFQ Registered
Buyer receives the IFQ fish or CDQ halibut.
BLOCK A – IDENTIFICATION OF REGISTERED BUYER
Did this Registered Buyer perform any shoreside activity this IFQ fishing year?
YES [

]

NO [

]

If YES, continue. If NO, STOP. You do not need to submit this report.
1. Name of Registered Buyer:
2. Registered Buyer Permit Number:
3. NMFS Person ID:
4. Facility or Vessel Location (Port Location):

5. Taxpayer ID: (Employer ID No. or SSN)
6. Date of Birth or Date of Incorporation:

7. Business Mailing Address:

8. Business Telephone Number:

Permanent

Temporary

9. Business Fax Number:

10. E-mail Address:

BLOCK B – Non-Electronic CERTIFICATION
Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1746, I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct.
1. Printed Name of IFQ Registered Buyer Representative:
2. Signature of IFQ Registered Buyer Representative: (Attach Authorization)

3. Date:

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BLOCK C – POUNDS PURCHASED AND VALUE REPORT
Period Ending
October 31**

IFQ Halibut
Pounds
Total Gross
Purchased
Ex-vessel
(headed/gutted)
Value Paid*

CDQ Halibut
Pounds
Total Gross
Purchased
Ex-vessel
(headed/ gutted)
Value Paid*

Sablefish
Pounds
Total Gross
Purchased
Ex-vessel
(round weight)
Value Paid*

November 30**
December 31**
March 31
April 30
May 31
June 30
July 31
August 31
September 30
* Total Gross Ex-vessel value paid should include the dollar value of purchased pounds before any deductions are made for goods and
services (e.g., bait, ice, fuel, repairs, machinery replacement) provided to the IFQ Permit Holder. It should also include price
adjustments (retro payments) made in each month to IFQ permit holders for landings made during the previous calendar year.
**Use prior year calculations for these months.
Note: IFQ sablefish harvested incidental to other directed fishing may be retained and sold through December 31.

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PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 2 hours per response, including the time for
reviewing the 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 aspect of this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing the burden, to: NOAA, National Marine Fisheries Service, Alaska Region, Sustainable Fisheries
Division, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Before completing this form please note the following: 1) Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, no person is required to
respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with, a collection of information subject to the requirements
of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid OMB Control Number; 2) This
information is mandatory and is required to manage commercial fishing effort under 50 CFR part 679 and under section 402(a) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.); 3) Responses to this information request are confidential under section 402(b) of the
Magnuson-Stevens Act as amended in 2006. It is also confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth
procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.
PRIVACY ACT STATEMENT
AUTHORITY: The collection of this information is authorized under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management
Act, 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
PURPOSE: NMFS uses this information to verify the identity of the applicant(s), accurately retrieve confidential records related to
Federal permits, establish standard ex-vessel prices, and establish cost recovery fees. The primary purpose for requesting the SSN/TIN
is for the collection and reporting on any delinquent amounts arising out of such person’s relationship with the government pursuant to
the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-134). Personal information is confidential and protected under the
Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a). Business information may be disclosed to the public.
ROUTINE USES: Disclosure of this information is subject to the published routine uses identified in the Privacy Act System of
Records Notices COMMERCE/NOAA-19, Permits and Registrations for the United States Federally Regulated Fisheries. NMFS may
post some information submitted from this form on its public website (https://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov). In addition, NMFS may
share information submitted on this form with other State and Federal agencies or fishery management commissions, including staff of
the North Pacific Fishery Management Council and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.
DISCLOSURE: Providing this information is voluntary; however, the failure to provide complete and accurate information may result
in the permit holder’s loss of the permit.

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INSTRUCTIONS
IFQ REGISTERED BUYER EX-VESSEL VOLUME AND VALUE REPORT
May be submitted ONLINE
https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/login
The completed IFQ Registered Buyer Ex-vessel Volume and Value Report
must be postmarked or received by NMFS no later than October 15
GENERAL INFORMATION
NMFS Alaska Region administers the Halibut and Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) Program in the North Pacific.
The IFQ Program is a limited access system authorized by section 303(b) of the Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation
and Management Act (Magnuson–Stevens Act) and the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1982. IFQ cost recovery is
mandated by Section 304(d)(2) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
NMFS collects fees at the end of each year to recover costs incurred by the agency for IFQ Program management in that
same year and costs incurred by observer coverage. Vessels participating in halibut Western Alaska Community
Development Quota (CDQ) fisheries are subject to observer fees for landings of halibut CDQ. The purpose of this form is
to collect information from IFQ Registered Buyers that act as a shoreside processor so that NMFS (Restricted Access
Management) can establish a “standard” ex-vessel price to determine the value in the following year for purposes of the
observer fee for halibut IFQ and CDQ landings, sablefish IFQ landings, and sablefish landings that accrue against the
fixed gear sablefish CDQ allocation by catcher vessels in the partial coverage category. Observer fees would be assessed
on all landings in a year to pay for observer coverage in the following year.
An IFQ Registered Buyer that also operates as a shoreside processor and receives and purchases IFQ landings of sablefish
or halibut or CDQ landings of halibut must submit annually to NMFS a complete IFQ Volume and Value Report by
October 15 of the year receiving IFQ fish.
Completed form may be submitted:
♦

By mail to:

NMFS Alaska Region
Attn: RAM Program
P.O. Box 21668
Juneau AK 99802-1668

♦

By fax to:

907-586-7354

♦

Online to:

https://alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/webapps/efish/login
COMPLETING THE FORM

Indicate whether this Registered Buyer preformed any shoreside activity this IFQ fishing year.
If YES, continue.
If NO, STOP. You do not need to submit this report.
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BLOCK A - IDENTIFICATION OF IFQ REGISTERED BUYER
1. Name of Registered Buyer. This is the person or business receiving IFQ halibut or sablefish or CDQ halibut from
harvester.
2. Registered Buyer permit number issued by NMFS, which is printed on your Registered Buyer permit.
3. NMFS Person ID Number. This is the identifying number assigned to you for the IFQ program.
4. Facility or Vessel Location. Enter the port location where landings occurred.
5. Taxpayer ID (EIN or SSN).
Enter social security number (SSN) if applicant is an individual.
Enter employer identification number (EIN) if applicant is a corporation, partnership, association, or other nonindividual business entity.
6. Date of birth or Date of Incorporation.
Enter date of birth if applicant is an individual.
Enter date of incorporation if applicant is a corporation, partnership, association or other non-individual business
entity.
7. Business Mailing Address, including zip code. Indicate whether permanent or temporary address.
If permanent address, RAM will update the database
If temporary address, RAM will use it for this one application and will not change the RAM database.
8. Business telephone number, including area code.
9. Business fax number, including area code.
10. Business or person email address.
BLOCK B – Non-Electronic CERTIFICATION
Enter printed name and signature of Registered Buyer and date of signature. If authorized representative, attach
authorization.
BLOCK C - POUNDS PURCHASED AND VALUE REPORT
IFQ/CDQ Halibut Pounds/Payments
For each period ending, enter—
♦

The monthly total weights, represented in IFQ equivalent pounds by IFQ species or CDQ halibut, that were
landed at the landing port location and purchased by the IFQ Registered Buyer;

♦

The monthly total gross ex-vessel value, in U.S. dollars, of IFQ pounds, by IFQ species or CDQ halibut, that were
landed at the landing port location and purchased by the IFQ Registered Buyer;

Note: All halibut landings must be expressed in pounds of headed and gutted product. If halibut is purchased in any other
product form, convert to IFQ equivalent pounds by multiplying the purchased pounds by the official NMFS halibut
conversion factor.

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Pounds Purchased (headed/gutted)
Enter the monthly total weights, represented in IFQ equivalent pounds by IFQ species that were landed at the landing port
location and purchased by the IFQ Registered Buyer.
EXAMPLE (if not purchased headed and gutted):
Product code
4

Pounds purchased x Conversion factor
10,000
0.90

=

IFQ equivalent pounds
9,000

IFQ sablefish pounds/payment
For each period ending, enter—
♦

The monthly total weights, expressed in round pounds by IFQ sablefish, that were landed at the landing port
location and purchased by the IFQ Registered Buyer;

♦

The monthly total gross ex-vessel value, in U.S. dollars, of IFQ pounds, by IFQ sablefish that were landed at the
landing port location and purchased by the IFQ Registered Buyer. You must also include the monthly total U.S.
dollar amount of any retro-payments (correlated by IFQ species or CDQ halibut, landing month(s), and month of
payment) made in the current year to IFQ, or to CDQ halibut permit holders for landings made during the
previous calendar year;

Note: All sablefish landings must be expressed in round pounds. If sablefish is purchased in any other product form,
convert to IFQ equivalent pounds by dividing the purchased pounds by the official NMFS sablefish product recovery code.
EXAMPLE (if not purchased in round pounds):
Product code
8

Pounds purchased ⁄ Product recovery code =
6,300
0.63

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IFQ equivalent pounds
10,000