Northwest Region, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery: Trawl Rationalization Cost Recovery Program

This request is for a revision to a currently approved information collection. The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA) authorizes and requires that the Secretary of Commerce maintain a cost recovery program to recover the management, data collection and analysis, and enforcement costs of the limited access privilege programs, such as the Pacific Coast Groundfish Trawl Rationalization Program (Trawl Program). Cost recovery fees may not exceed three percent of the ex-vessel value. The Trawl Program cost recovery program requires fish sellers to submit fees to fish buyers who then submit those fees to NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Fish buyers must also submit information to NMFS on the volume and value of harvested groundfish when submitting the fees. Information is collected from monthly and annual payment transactions and reports as well as non-payment documents when necessary. This revision would add the applicable fish ticket number to each IFQ Pay.Gov payment transaction.The information collected is used to track the payment of cost recovery fees, reconcile cost recovery payments with landings data from other sources, calculate average ex-vessel values, and, if necessary, help in the resolution of non-payment issues. This program is authorized under the Pacific coast groundfish fishery regulations, trawl rationalization cost recovery program at 50 CFR 660.115.

The latest form for Northwest Region, Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery: Trawl Rationalization Cost Recovery Program expires 2027-07-31 and can be found here.

Trawl Rationalization Cost Recovery Fee Collection Reports (IFQ,MS,C/P)

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