[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 53 (Friday, March 18, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14836-14837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-06187]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of
information under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act (44
U.S.C. Chapter 35).
Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Title: Groundfish Tagging Program.
OMB Control Number: 0648-0276.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular (extension of a currently approved
information collection).
Number of Respondents: 440.
Average Hours per Response: Return of a regular tag, 5 minutes;
return of an internal archival tag, 20 minutes.
Burden Hours: 89.
Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
The groundfish tagging program provides scientists with information
necessary for effective conservation, management, and scientific
understanding of the groundfish fishery off Alaska and the Northwest
Pacific. The program area includes the Pacific Ocean off Alaska (the
Gulf of Alaska, the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area, and the
Alexander Archipelago of Southeast Alaska), California, Oregon, and
Washington. Fish movement information from recovered tags is used in
population dynamics models for stock assessment. There are two general
categories of tags. Simple plastic tags (spaghetti tags) are external
tags approximately two inches long, printed with code numbers. When a
tag is returned, the tag number is correlated with databases of
released, tagged fish to determine the net movement and growth rate of
the tagged fish. Archival tags are microchips with sensors encased in
plastic cylinders that record the depth, temperature or other data,
which can be downloaded electronically from the recovered tags. The
groundfish tagging and tag recovery program is part of the fishery
resource assessment and
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data collection that the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
conducts under the Magnuson-Stevens Act authority as codified in 16
U.S.C. 1801 (a)(8).
Affected Public: Not-for-profit institutions; state, local, or
tribal government; business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: On occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
This information collection request may be viewed at reginfo.gov.
Follow the instructions to view Department of Commerce collections
currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice
to [email protected] or fax to (202) 395-5806.
Dated: March 15, 2016.
Sarah Brabson,
NOAA PRA Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-06187 Filed 3-17-16; 8:45 am]
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