


Read about this week's enforcement actions from around the country.
A special agent issued a summary settlement offer for $8,428.90 to a vessel operator for landing more than 300,000 pounds of pollock in a calendar day.
An enforcement officer issued multiple summary settlements to charter anglers for retaining halibut over the annual limit.
An enforcement officer performed a pre-boarding audit of a vessel from a prior notice of landing and determined that the vessel operator had not logged the trip with the Observer Declare and Deploy System. Upon arriving at the dock, the enforcement officer also noticed that the vessel was in violation of state law for not having ADF&G numbers on display. He notified the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, who arrived at the dock to conduct the boarding and audit with the NOAA enforcement officer. The team discovered several violations. These included failure to maintain a logbook, not registering with the Observer Declare and Deploy System, attempting to land a processed halibut (head off), a crewmember with expired deckhand license, and failure to properly display ADF&G numbers after a previous warning. Summary settlements and state citations were issued.