Notice2025-10300
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Alaska Saltwater Sportfishing Economic Survey
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Published
June 6, 2025
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Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 108 (Friday, June 6, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24101-24102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10300]
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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; Alaska Saltwater Sportfishing Economic Survey
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 July 31, 2024 during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
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Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce.
Title: Alaska Saltwater Sportfishing Economic Survey.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0639.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission [Reinstatement with revisions].
Number of Respondents: 4,263.
Average Hours per Response: 30 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,108.
Needs and Uses: This request is for reinstatement with changes to a
previously approved information collection (OMB Control Number 0648-
0639).
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) previously collected
survey data in 2007, 2012, and 2017 for conducting economic analyses of
marine sport fishing in Alaska. These surveys were necessary to
understand the factors that affect marine recreational fishing and its
economic value. The proposed update from the previously conducted mail
survey is a push-to web survey focused on collecting data from a subset
of the Alaska saltwater angler population that participated in a sport
angling trip via a charter boat. The focus on the charter angler
subpopulation is due to that population being of primary concern for
fishery managers. This data collection is needed to improve estimates
of fishing trip values potentially affected by changes in federal
recreational fisheries off Alaska, including recent declines in
populations of Pacific halibut and subsequent measures to manage
harvest in the Alaska recreational charter fishing sector. Numerous
questions in the questionnaire have been updated to better reflect, and
understand the effects of, recent changes in Alaska marine recreational
fisheries.
The Federal Government is responsible for the management of the
Pacific halibut sport fishery off Alaska, while the State of Alaska
manages the salmon sport fisheries (Chinook, coho, sockeye, chum, and
pink), as well as several other saltwater sport fisheries. The updated
survey's scope covers marine sport charter fishing for Pacific halibut,
salmon, and other popular marine sport species in Alaska (e.g., lingcod
and rockfish). The data collected from the survey will be used to
update estimates of the demand for and value of Pacific halibut fishing
to charter anglers and to analyze how the type of fish caught, fishery
regulations, and other factors affect fishing values and anglers'
decisions to participate in Alaska marine charter fishing activities.
The economic information provided from the survey will help inform
fishery managers about the economic values of Alaska marine charter
halibut fisheries and the changes to participation in these fisheries
with proposed regulations.
Affected Public: Individuals or households.
Frequency: Once.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 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 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 0648-0639.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2025-10300 Filed 6-5-25; 8:45 am]
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