Atlantic Herring
Weekly Landings Report 		For Week Ended:
For data reported through:
Quota Period Dates: 		May 5, 2012
May 9, 2012
January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012

  Vessel Reports Without Supplements Supplemented with Dealer Data
Management
Area		 Previous
Weeks'
Catch (mt)		 Previous
Weeks'
Updates (mt)		 Current
Week's
Catch (mt)1		 Reporting
Week's
Catch (mt)2		 Cumulative
Catch (mt)		 Quota (mt) Percent of
Quota (%)		 Cumulative
Catch (mt)		 Percent of
Quota (%)
1A 0 0 0 0 0 4,7053 0% 04 0%4
1B 3,847 0 0 0 3,847 2,723 141% 4,303 158%
2 18,524 0 0 0 18,524 22,146 84% 21,139 95%
3 1,394 0 934 9 2,337 38,146 6% 3,144 8%
Total 23,765 0 934 9 24,708 67,7203 36% 28,586 42%


1 Herring catch reported for the week ended May 5, 2012
2 Herring catch reported for the week ended May 12, 2012
3 This quota excludes 295 mt set-aside for fixed gear fisheries west of Cutler, ME until November 1, 2012. As of the the date this report was compiled, the New Brunswick weir fishery has not reported any landings for FY2012.
4 Includes current ME state only vessel herring landings
   Notice

Effective February 24, 2012, NMFS reduced the 2012 sub-ACLs (annual catch limit) in Areas 1A and 1B to account for overages in those areas in 2010. Therefore, the sub-ACL for Area 1A is 24,668 mt (reduced from 26,546 mt) and the sub-ACL for Area 1B is 2,723 mt (reduced from 4,362 mt) for the 2012 fishing year. If you have questions, please contact the Sustainable Fisheries Division at 978-281-9315.

The Atlantic herring fishery is monitored using data provided by herring-permitted vessels (VMS catch reports, IVR reports, VTRs) and Federal/state dealer data. Vessel reported data are compared to dealer data and dealer data are used to supplement vessel catch reports when necessary.

Catch reporting requirements are as follows: Limited access herring vessels report catch daily via VMS, open access herring vessels report catch weekly via the IVR system, and all herring-permitted vessels submit VTRs weekly. Failure to submit reports, including the requirement to submit a negative VTR for any week when no catch was made, has resulted in vessels being referred to the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement for investigation.

For questions regarding Atlantic herring management, please contact the Sustainable Fisheries Division at 978-281-9315. For guidance on the most recent notification and reporting requirements, please click here

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.