Commercial Operator's Annual Report (COAR)

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Alaska Regional Office, is requesting renewal of this currently approved information collection for the Commercial Operator’s Annual Report (COAR). No revisions are made to this collection. The COAR is a State of Alaska report. NMFS requires motherships and catcher/processors that are issued a Federal fisheries permit to annually complete and submit the appropriate sections of the COAR. The COAR is used to gather statewide fish and shellfish information describing buying (ex-vessel) and production (wholesale or retail) activities. The information collected in the COAR is used to determine the value of Alaska’s fisheries resources and products. NMFS uses the COAR database in annual Federal publications on the value of U.S. commercial fisheries, in the annual NMFS Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation reports for the groundfish fisheries of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands and the Gulf of Alaska, and in periodic reports that describe the fisheries and that serve as reference documents to management agencies, the industry, and others. NOTE: There is no privacy act statement on the COAR, as it is a state form. The PAS is posted at: https://elandings.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/379650058/PRIVACY+ACT+STATEMENT+for+the+ADF+G+Commercial+Operators+Annual+Report

The latest form for Commercial Operator's Annual Report (COAR) expires 2027-10-31 and can be found here.