Atlantic Herring
Weekly Landings Report 		For Week Ended:
For data reported through:
Quota Period:
Quota Period Dates: 		October 31, 2009
November 3, 2009
2009
January 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009

  IVR Reports Without Supplements Supplemented with Dealer Data
Management
Area		 Previous
Weeks'
Catch (mt)		 Previous
Weeks'
Updates (mt)		 Current
Week's
Catch (mt)		 Reporting
Week's
Catch (mt)1		 Cumulative
Catch (mt)		 Quota (mt) Percent of
Quota (%)		 Cumulative
Catch (mt)		 Percent of
Quota (%)
1A 22,283 1,448 295 0 24,026 43,1502 56% 24,5773 57%3
1B 1,602 0 0 0 1,602 9,700 17% 1,604 17%
2 25,620 0 0 0 25,620 30,000 85% 27,153 91%
3 27,884 1,251 0 0 29,135 60,000 49% 29,704 50%
Total 77,389 2,699 295 0 80,383 142,850 56% 83,038 58%


1 Herring catch reported for weeks ended after October 31, 2009
2 Excludes 500 mt set-aside for fixed gear fisheries west of Cutler, ME until November 1, 2009.
3 Includes current ME state only vessel herring landings.
   Notice
The Atlantic herring fishery is monitored using data provided by NERO permitted fishing vessels weekly through our IVR system and supplemented by other data sources where IVR data are not available. IVR data are compared to federal and state dealer data each week and dealer reports are used to supplement the IVR when necessary. These supplements include data from non-federally permitted inshore fisheries when provided by state agencies or from other sources.

For questions regarding Atlantic herring management including fishery closures, please contact the Sustainable Fisheries Division at 978-281-9315. For questions regarding vessel and dealer reporting, and quota reports please contact Fisheries Statistics Office at 978-281-9377 and see the recent Permit Holder Letter at:
       http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/nr/nrdoc/08/08HerReportReq.pdf

Owners/operators of vessels issued herring permits must report via the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) as follows: 1) Vessels issued limited access permits must report weekly, including weeks when no herring is caught; 2) Vessels issued open access permits must report any week that the vessel catches 2,000 lb. or more on a trip.

Failure to submit reports, including the requirement to submit a negative report for any week when no catch was made, has resulted in vessels being referred to the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement for investigation. If violations are established, violators can expect significant civil penalties and permit sanctions to follow.

These data are the best available to NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) when this report was compiled. Data for this report are supplied by vessel permit holders via the IVR System and may be preliminary. Discrepancies with data from previous Weekly Landings Reports are due to corrections made to the database.


                          *Last entry is reporting week's catch and will likely change.


                          *Last entry is reporting week's catch and will likely change.


                          *Last entry is reporting week's catch and will likely change.


                          *Last entry is reporting week's catch and will likely change.