Bering Sea Pollock Fishery Incentive Plan Agreement (IPA) Annual Report_6-28

Revised: 09/23/2014 OMB Control No. 0648-0401 Expiration Date XX/XX/20XX

Bering Sea Pollock Fishery Incentive Plan Agreement (IPA) Annual Report

U.S. Dept. of Commerce/NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Restricted Access Management (RAM) P.O. Box 21668 Juneau, AK 99802-1668 (800) 304-484ll free / 586-7202 in Juneau (907) 586-7354 fax

Each IPA is required to submit an annual report to the Council by April 1st of the following year under a set of reporting requirements provided in the Amendment 91 regulations.

The IPA report is the primary tool through which the Council evaluates the effectiveness of the IPA concept in reducing Chinook salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery. Information gathered through the annual reports is necessary for the Council to evaluate the salmon bycatch management measures and to provide the public with information about how the programs operate and bycatch reduction under these programs.

The Council makes the annual report available to the public; the IPA reports are posted on the NMFS Alaska Region website at

Inshore (http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/afa/coopreports/2013/inshoreipa.pdf

Mothership

http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/afa/coopreports/2013/mothershipipa.pdf

Catcher/processor

http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/afa/coopreports/2013/cpipa.pdf

Each Bering Sea Pollock Fishery IPA Annual Report must include the following information:

Incentive measures in effect in the previous year.

How incentive measures affected individual vessels

How incentives measures affected salmon savings beyond current levels

IPA amendments approved by NMFS since the last annual report and the reasons for amendments

Sub-allocation to each participating vessel

Number of Chinook salmon PSC and amount of pollock (mt) at the start of each fishing season

Number of Chinook salmon PSC and amount of pollock (mt) caught at the end of each season

In-season transfers among entities of Chinook salmon PSC or pollock among AFA cooperatives

Date of transfer

Name of transferor

Name of transferee

Number of Chinook salmon PSC transferred

Amount of pollock (mt) transferred

Transfers among IPA vessels, provide:

Date of transfer;

Name of transferor;

Name of transferee;

Number of Chinook salmon PSC transferred

Amount pollock (mt) transferred.

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PUBLIC REPORTING BURDEN STATEMENT

Public reporting burden for this collection-of-information is estimated to average 80 hours per response, including the time for reviewing the instructions, searching the existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Assistant Regional Administrator, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Before completing this form, please note the following: 1) Notwithstanding any other provision of 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 efforts under 50 CFR part 679 and under section 402(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act (16 U.S.C. 1801, et seq.) as amended in 2006; 3) Responses to this information request are confidential under section 402(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act as revised in 2006. They are also confidential under NOAA Administrative Order 216-100, which sets forth procedures to protect confidentiality of fishery statistics.

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IPA Annual Report

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