Notice2026-18180
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
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Published
September 4, 2026
Issuing agencies
Commerce DepartmentNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 171 (Friday, September 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56868-56869]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-18180]
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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; Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California
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 June 22, 2026, during a 60-day comment period. This
notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
Title: Reporting Requirements for the Ocean Salmon Fishery Off the
Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0433.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 40.
Average Hours per Response: 15 minutes.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 10 hours.
Needs and Uses: This is a request for an extension of a currently
approved information collection. Ocean salmon
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fisheries conducted in the U.S. exclusive economic zone, 3-200 nautical
miles off the West Coast states of Washington, Oregon, and California
are managed by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) and
NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) under the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA). Management
measures for the ocean salmon fisheries are set annually, consistent
with the Council's Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan (FMP).
The FMP provides a framework for managing the ocean salmon fisheries in
a sustainable manner, as required under the MSA, through the use of
conservation objectives, annual catch limits and other management
measures, reference points and status determination criteria described
in the FMP. To meet these criteria, annual management measures,
published in the Federal Register by NMFS, specify regulatory areas,
catch restrictions, and landing restrictions based on the stock
abundance forecasts. These catch and landing restrictions include area-
, time- and species-specific quotas for the commercial ocean salmon
fishery and generally require catch and landings to be reported to the
appropriate state and tribal agencies to allow for timely and accurate
accounting of the season's catch (50 CFR 660.404 and 50 CFR
660.408(o)). The best available catch and effort data and projections
are presented by the state fishery managers in telephone conference
calls involving the NMFS Regional Administrator and representatives of
the Council. However, NMFS acknowledges that unsafe weather or
mechanical problems could prevent commercial fishermen from making
their landings at the times and places specified, and the MSA requires
conservation and management measures to promote the safety of human
life at sea. Therefore, the annual management measures will include
provisions to exempt commercial salmon fishermen from compliance with
the landing requirements when they experience unsafe weather conditions
or mechanical problems at sea, so long as the appropriate notifications
are made by, for example, at-sea radio and cellular telephone, and
information on catch and other required information is given, under
this collection of information.
In addition, NMFS has established measures to keep fishery impacts
within conservation objectives for the California Coastal Chinook
salmon (50 CFR 660.410(d)(3)). This information collection assists in
the management of the landing and possession limits to stay within
established quotas for the California commercial salmon troll fishery.
The State of California requires that fish tickets with the number of
Chinook salmon landed be entered into the California Department of Fish
and Wildlife electronic landing database. NMFS requires that this be
completed within 24 hours of landing.
The annual management measures will specify the contents and
procedure of the notifications, and the entities receiving the
notifications (e.g., United States Coast Guard). Absent this
requirement by the Council, the state reporting systems would not
regularly collect this specific type of in-season radio report or
electronic landing data. These provisions, and this federal collection
of information, promote safety at sea, provide practical utility for
sustainably managing the fishery, and ensure regulatory consistency
across each state by implementing the same requirements in the
territorial waters off each state. This information collection is
intended to be general in scope by leaving the specifics of the
notifications for annual determination, thus providing flexibility in
responding to salmon management concerns in any given year.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: Reporting under this emergency provision is infrequent.
Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.
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 0648-0433.
Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Compliance Officer, Office of the Under Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2026-18180 Filed 9-3-26; 8:45 am]
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