Notice2024-21604
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Survey to Collect Economic Data from Recreational Anglers along the Atlantic Coast
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Published
September 20, 2024
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 183 (Friday, September 20, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77104-77105]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-21604]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Survey to Collect Economic Data from Recreational Anglers
along the Atlantic Coast
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on March 21, 2022 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Survey to Collect Economic Data from Recreational Anglers
along the Atlantic Coast.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0783.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [extension and revision of a
current information collection].
Number of Respondents: 957.
Average Hours per Response: 8 minutes to complete NARFS III and 12
minutes to complete NARFS IV.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 157 hours.
Needs and Uses: This request is for a revision and extension to a
currently approved information collection. The first data collection
effort in 2019 under OMB Control Number 0648-0783 was to assess how
changes in saltwater recreational fishing regulations affect angler
effort, angler welfare, fishing mortality, and future stock levels.
That data collection effort focused on anglers who fished for Atlantic
cod and haddock off the Atlantic coast from Maine to Massachusetts
(North Atlantic Recreational Fishing Survey I). In 2020, the collection
was revised to remove the cod and haddock survey and add a survey
focused on anglers who fish for summer flounder, black sea bass, and
scup along the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts to North Carolina
(North Atlantic Recreational Fishing Survey II). In 2022, the
collection was revised again to re-add the original cod and haddock
survey back to this control number (North Atlantic Recreational Fishing
Survey III). This revision will re-add the survey focused on summer
flounder, black sea bass, and scup (North Atlantic Recreational Fishing
Survey IV) that was inadvertently removed in the last revision.
The objective of these surveys will remain exactly the same as the
previous surveys conducted under this control number. That is, to
statistically assess how anglers respond to changes in management
options and fishing regulations (e.g., bag limits, size limits, dates
of open seasons, etc.). The survey data will provide the information
fisheries managers need to conduct updated analysis of the socio-
economic effects to recreational anglers and to coastal communities of
proposed changes in fishing regulations. The recreational fishing
community and regional fisheries management councils now rely on
species-specific socio-economic studies of recreational fishing for
analyses of fisheries policies. These surveys will address the stated
need for more species-specific studies.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery
Conservation and Management Act.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be
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submitted within 30 days of the publication of this notice on the
following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this
particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function and
entering either the title of the collection or the OMB Control Number
0648-0783.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2024-21604 Filed 9-19-24; 8:45 am]
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