The 2023 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 2023.
NOAA Fisheries has revised the at-sea monitoring coverage target to 80 percent of all groundfish sector trips for the rest of 2022 fishing year. This is a decrease from the 99-percent coverage target implemented on May 1, 2022.
This Annual Report provides information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers and Electronic Monitoring systems by the North Pacific Observer Program during 2021.
These annual reports provide information, analysis, and recommendations based on the deployment of observers by the North Pacific Groundfish and Halibut Observer Program.
Draft of plans of NOAA Fisheries to assign observers to collect independent information from fishing operations conducted in the North Pacific under the authority of the Fishery Management Plans for the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska.
The Annual Deployment Plans document NOAA Fisheries plans to assign observers to collect independent information from fishing operations conducted under the authority of the Fishery Management Plans for the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska.
This page contains information about the cost recovery program for the Atlantic Sea Scallop Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) fishery, and the costs associated with management and enforcement of the IFQ fishery during the 2021 fee period.
Interference with fishery observers is illegal. Stepped-up enforcement in the Northeast will target vessel owners, captains, and crew who violate the law.
