Publications

This guide is intended to assist fishery observers in the visual identification of giant manta rays and other large ray species that occur in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

This draft 2020 Annual Deployment Plan documents how NOAA Fisheries intends to assign fishery observers and electronic monitoring to vessels fishing in the partial observer coverage category (50 CFR 679.51(a)) in the North Pacific during the calendar year 2020.

A study to evaluate how likely crews on deep-set longline vessels are to fish within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone around Hawaii when a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observer is aboard. 

This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers by the North Pacific Observer Program during 2018.

Supplement to the 2011 Environmental Assessment for Restructuring the Program for Observer Procurement and Deployment in the North Pacific.

Step-by-step guide on how a Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) trawl catcher vessel may request full observer coverage.

The 2019 Annual Deployment Plan documents how NOAA Fisheries intends to assign fishery observers and electronic monitoring to vessels fishing in the partial observer coverage category (50 CFR 679.51(a)) in the North Pacific during the calendar year 2019.

Thank you for taking the time to fill out the Vessel / Plant Operator Comment Form. This form allows you to provide us with feedback regarding your recent observer and your experience with the Observer Program. Your feedback is important to us and we commit to responding to each Comment Form we receive. If you would like to submit comments by email please complete the form and email to: seattle.debriefing@noaa.gov. Thank you.

This draft 2019 Annual Deployment Plan (ADP) documents how the NOAA Fisheries intends to assign at-sea and shoreside observers and electronic monitoring to vessels and processing plants engaged in fishing operations in the North Pacific.

This report was initiated as part of NOAA Fisheries' voluntary Observer Program Safety Review to examine existing factors facing observers and at-sea monitors. It is an independent audit of current observer-related policies and protocols. The review found national and regional observer safety programs in the United States to be robust, mature, and effective. The report also makes recommendations in seven areas: safety reporting; communications; practices and policies; training; regulations; equipment; and international observers.