1 ELECTRONIC REPORTING OF FISHERIES INFORMATION IN ALASKA

2 ELANDINGS - BACKGROUND One-stop reporting of landings, production, and logbook information to multiple agencies electronically Increases timeliness and accuracy of fisheries data entry Creates an electronic record of landings, production, and logbook data that may be extracted by processors and agency staff Immediate verification of permits and vessel ID’s

3 Interagency Server Interagency Server NMFS RAM NMFS Sustainable Fisheries NMFS Sustainable Fisheries ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division ADF&G Commercial Fisheries Division IPHC Interagency Electronic Reporting System Catch and Production Reporting by Industry

4 INTERAGENCY ELECTRONIC REPORTING PROGRAM COMPONENTS eLandings Web based reporting seaLandings Desktop reporting via Agency Interface for review and editing submitted electronic data Elandings 24/7 Server tLandings Desktop reporting via flash drive eLogbook: web & desktop

5 THREE ELANDINGS INTERFACES Web Interface

6 SEALANDINGS STAND ALONE SOFTWARE

7 AGENCY DESKTOP

8 ELANDINGS ENVIRONMENTS Production Training Test

9 OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION  View Operations and Users  Add Tenders  Add Buying Stations  Add Custom Processing Operations  Add or Edit New and Existing Users  Complete instructions on Administrative features can be found here:

10 INDIVIDUAL USER PROFILES  Individual users can customize landing and production report display features  Number of decimals used in weight and price values  Number of permit lines  Number of stat area worksheet lines  Users can:  Modify their contact information  Select their default operation

11 GRADING & PRICING TEMPLATES  Grading and Pricing templates are accessed on the Reports Menu page  Multiple species  Primary & Ancillary  Size/Grade  Price/lb

12 DATA EXTRACT  New option allows users to select landing/production report or logbook data extracts.  Please read the instructions to optimize your results  Report templates can be customized to fit your accounting needs  Columns can be deleted and re-ordered but not renamed  Make sure you name the templates appropriately  Report extracts are ed to the user in the selected format  Please contact eLandings staff if you don’t receive your reports by close of business

13 ENFORCEMENT FORMS  Product Transfer Report (PTR) – when transferring fish product from the facility or vessel  Check In/Check Out (CICO) – CI is submitted when the plant begins accepting groundfish and CO is submitted when the plant is no longer accepting groundfish or closes down  NOAA Fisheries has redesigned their website so recordkeeping and reporting forms have been moved to the following location:

14 DAILY PRODUCTION REPORTS  If the processor is checked in, they are responsible for submitting daily Production reports for everything that was processed in the facility.  These reports must be submitted by 12:00pm the following day to document the previous days’ production  If the plant is open but did not process or receive deliveries, that must be noted in the submitted production report by checking the appropriate boxes  If no one is working at the plant on Saturday and Sunday, production reports for those days can be submitted the following Monday by 12:00pm

15 OBSERVER FEES  Observer fees  Information on the types of landings that are subject to Observer Fees and the disposition codes where fees do and do not apply, can be found here:  Observer fees can be generated directly from a landing report or they can be generated specifically within a date range or by a vessel within a date range. Details on the different methods can be found here:  If you try to View Observer Fee PDF and get a warning that says, No Observer fee information found, click on the Observer Fee Details link in blue text.

16 OBSERVER FEE RESPONSIBILITY  The Observer fee is 1.25% of the ex-vessel value of groundfish and halibut/sablefish subject to the fee.  Fees are split 50/50 between the owner/operator of the catcher vessel and the processing plant they deliver to.  Processing plant possessing FPPs and Registered Buyer permits are responsible for collecting the fee which includes the vessel’s portion.  NMFS holds the processor liable for the payment of the entire fee.  On January 15 th of each year, NMFS invoices processors for their total fee liability for the previous year.  Fees must be paid by February 15 th using the eFISH portal which is accessed using the NMFS ID and password of the FPP and Registered Buyer permit holders

17 ODDS TRIP NUMBER  Observer Declare and Deploy System ~  Catcher vessels in the partial observer coverage category are required to log their fishing trips in the ODDS system  Vessel operators are given an ODDS trip receipt that contains a unique trip number  This is not a required field but the information is important so we would appreciate your assistance in collecting the ODDS trip number  Please ask the vessel operator for this information regardless of whether they had an Observer on their fishing trip  If they do not have the ODDS trip number, you can still submit the landing report by clicking on the Save, Ignoring Warnings button  More detailed information can be accessed via the link below  oy+System+-ODDS-+trip+number+to+elandings oy+System+-ODDS-+trip+number+to+elandings 