Notice2025-07087
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries
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April 24, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 78 (Thursday, April 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07087]
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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; Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries
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 January 24, 2025, 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: Economic Surveys of Specific US Commercial Fisheries.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0773.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission. Extension of a currently
approved collection.
Number of Respondents: 1,480.
Average Hours per Response:
NWFSC: West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fisheries
Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
NWFSC: West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab,
and Shrimp Fisheries Economic Data Collection: 3 hours.
PIFSC: American Samoa Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Pelagic Longline Fishery Economic Data Collection: 1
hour.
PIFSC: Hawaii Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection: 45
minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa Small Boat Fishery Economic Data Collection:
45 minutes.
PIFSC: American Samoa, Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands Small Boat-Based Fisheries Economic Data Collection (an
add-on to a creel survey): 10 minutes.
PIFSC: Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fleet Economic Data
Collection: 45 minutes.
SEFSC: USVI F Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Puerto Rico Small-Scale Commercial Fisheries Economic Data
Collection: 1 hour.
SEFSC: Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SEFSC: U.S. South Atlantic Region Golden Crab Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 28 minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery Economic Data Collection:
3 hours.
SWFSC: West Coast Swordfish Fishery Economic Data Collection: 30
minutes.
SWFSC: West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery Economic Data
Collection: 65 minutes.
NEFSC: Northeast Commercial Fishing Business Economic Data
Collection: 45 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,696.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for extension of an approved
information collection.
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Science and
Technology is sponsoring the collection Economic Surveys of Specific US
Commercial Fisheries.
The requested information includes different components of
operating costs/expenditures, earnings, ownership, vessel
characteristics, effort/gear descriptors, employment, and demographic
information for the various types of fishing vessels operating in the
16 U.S. commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries listed below.
1. West Coast Limited Entry Groundfish Fixed Gear Fishery
2. West Coast Open Access Groundfish, Non-tribal Salmon, Crab, and
Shrimp Fisheries
3. American Samoa Longline Fishery
4. Hawaii Longline Fishery
5. Hawaii Small Boat Fishery
6. American Samoa Small Boat Fishery
7. American Samoa (ESAS), Guam, and The Commonwealth of The Northern
Mariana Islands (CNMI) Small Boat-Based Fisheries
8. Mariana Archipelago Small Boat Fishery
9. USVI Small-Scale Fisheries
10. Puerto Rico Small-Scale Fisheries
11. Gulf of Mexico Inshore Shrimp Fishery
12. Golden Crab Fisheries in the U.S. South Atlantic Region
13. West Coast Coastal Pelagic Fishery
14. West Coast Swordfish Fishery
15. West Coast North Pacific Albacore Fishery
16. Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fisheries
A variety of laws, Executive Orders (EOs), and NOAA strategies and
policies include requirements for economic data and the analyses they
support. When met adequately, those requirements allow better-informed
conservation and management decisions on the use of living marine
resources and marine habitat in federally managed fisheries. Obtaining
these data improves the ability of NOAA Fisheries and the Regional
Fishery Management Councils (Councils) to monitor, explain and predict
changes in the economic performance and impacts of federally managed
commercial fisheries. Measures of economic performance include costs,
earnings, and profitability (net revenue); productivity and economic
efficiency; capacity; economic stability; the level and distribution of
net economic benefits to society; and market power. The economic
impacts include sector, community or region-specific and national
employment, sales, value-added, and income impacts. Economic data are
required to support more than a cursory effort to comply with or
support the following laws, EOs, and NOAA strategies and policies:
1. Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)
2. Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)
3. Endangered Species Act (ESA)
4. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
5. Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
6. E.O. 12866 (Regulatory Planning and Review)
7. The NOAA Fisheries Guidelines for Economic Reviews of Regulatory
Actions
8. NOAA FY22-26 Strategic Plan, Building a Climate Ready Nation
9. The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2022-2025 (Strategic Plan)
10. The NOAA Fisheries Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management (EBFM) Road
Map
11. The NOAA Fisheries National Bycatch Reduction Strategy
12. NOAA's Catch Share Policy.
Data collections will focus each year on a different set of the 16
commercial fisheries or groups of fisheries. This cycle of data
collection will facilitate economic data being available and updated
for all those commercial fisheries.
There will be an effort to coordinate the data collections in order
to reduce the additional burden for those who participate in multiple
fisheries. To further reduce the burden, the requested information for
a specific fishery will be limited to that which is not available
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from other sources. Participation in these data collections will be
voluntary.
Affected Public: Individuals/households and business or other for-
profit organizations.
Frequency: Every 3 to 8 years for 15 of the fisheries and on
average 2.7 times per year for the other fisheries.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Endangered Species Act,
National Environmental Policy Act, and Regulatory Flexibility 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 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 0648-0773.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-07087 Filed 4-23-25; 8:45 am]
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