March 7, 2022 — The following was released by NOAA Fisheries:
NOAA Fisheries is proposing an exempted fishing permit (EFP) to evaluate how to best administer an electronic monitoring (EM) and portside sampling program in the Atlantic herring fishery. This EFP would allow vessels issued a Category A or B Atlantic herring permit to use a combination of EM and portside sampling instead of at-sea monitoring to satisfy their industry-funded monitoring (IFM) requirements during IFM year 2022 (April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2023).
If you own a vessel issued a Category A or B herring permit and would like to be issued an EFP, please contact Patrick Williamson, the Principal Investigator for the project, no later than March 21, 2022, at Patrick.Williamson@noaa.gov or 732-691-7957.
For more information, please read the Federal Register notice and fishery bulletin describing the project