Hook&Line /GIG {form 500}

No more than one(1)Finfish Recovery Report(FRR) can be submitted at one time.

Department of Marine Resources

1141 Bayview Ave.

Biloxi, MS 39530

228-374-5000

Section 1. CONFIDENTIALITY: All data collected or otherwise obtained by statistical personnel in the course of their duties and other landings data collected by information confidentiality officers of the Department of Marine Resources are confidential, and unless specific authorization is given are not to be divulged, except in aggregate form, to any person except employees of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources designated as information confidentiality officers, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA/NMFS), or agencies of other states that have executed a memorandum of understanding for the sharing of statistical information with the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources and the NMFS; whose duties require this information, and have provisions at least as protective for maintaining the confidentiality of such information, except as permitted by law or court order. Information confidentiality officers for the Department of Marine Resources shall be designated as such in writing by the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources Executive Director. Aggregate form, with respect to data, shall mean data or information submitted by three or more persons that have been summed or assembled in such a manner so as not to reveal, directly or indirectly, the identity or business of any such person. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will not voluntarily release confidential information to other state or federal agencies, except as provided for above, and to the fullest extent possible, will oppose other agency and congressional subpoenas to obtain confidential information. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources will not disclose confidential statistics under court order without specific approval by the State Attorney General¿s Office.