From tablet-based field surveys to electronic logbooks, NOAA Fisheries is advancing the use of electronic reporting in recreational fishing data collection.
The Alaska Catch Accounting System quantifies total catch to allow inseason monitoring and management of groundfish fisheries. Total catch means both catch that is retained and catch that is discarded. Estimates of total catch are used to manage limits.
Electronic monitoring and electronic reporting technologies are being developed to support science-based management decisions in commercial and recreational fisheries across the country.
User guides for eFISH, a public web application which provides information and services to harvesters and processors in: IFQ, Crab Rationalization, CDQ Groundfish, GOA Rockfish, A80 and AFA.
eLandings, tLandings and seaLandings are part of the Interagency Electronic Reporting System, a program by NOAA Fisheries' Alaska Region, Alaska Dept of Fish and Game, and the International Pacific Halibut Commission. eFISH is the online reporting system.
All U.S. vessels harvesting Exclusive Economic Zone fish and shoreside processors, stationary floating processors, and motherships receiving EEZ fish are required to hold a Federal permit and thus comply with recordkeeping and reporting requirements.
