This request is approved. Prior to resubmission for extension, the Agency should revise or validate estimates of burden based on continued experience with the program.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
08/31/2012
36 Months From Approved
08/31/2009
122,848
0
203,745
10,235
0
16,975
6,755
0
11,203
Gear-marking requirements assist NMFS in obtaining detailed information about which fisheries or specific parts of fishing gear are responsible for the incidental mortality and serious injury of right, humpback, and fin whales. Generally, only a portion of gear is recovered from an entangled whale and it is almost impossible to link that portion of gear to a particular fishery. Therefore, requiring fishermen to mark surface buoys and the buoy line provides NMFS with an additional source of information, which could then be used to determine the gear responsible for and the location of the entanglement event. The following fisheries areaffected by this information collection: Northeast and Mid-Atlantic lobster trap/pot fisheries; Atlantic blue crab trap/pot fisheries; Atlantic mixed species trap/pot fisheries targeting crab (red, Jonah, and rock), hagfish, finfish (black sea bass, scup, tautog, cod, haddock, pollock, redfish, and white hake), conch/whelk, and shrimp; Northeast anchored gillnet; Northeast drift gillnet; Mid-Atlantic gillnet; Southeast Atlantic gillnet; and Southeastern U.S. Atlantic shark gillnet.
US Code:
16 USC 31
Name of Law: Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972
There are adjustments both to burden and cost: a decrease in burden from 16,975 to 10, 235, a difference of 6,740 and a decrease in cost from $11,203 to $6,755, a difference of $4,448. These decreases are because the first year of implementation of the new gear marking requirements approved in 2007 in which higher burden and costs were incurred by new respondents all having to mark their gear within the same short implementation period has been completed. However, as some of the newly affected vessels are still in the process of completing their gear marking during the first few months after the implementation year, the burden and cost for these vessels is estimated to be slightly higher for 2009.
$0
No
No
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Uncollected
Kristy Long 301 713-2322 kristy.long@noaa.gov
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
0364 ss ren 020209rev.pdf
Gear-Marking Requirements for Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan