[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 92 (Tuesday, May 12, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27991-27992]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10046]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment 
Request; Large Pelagic Fishing Survey

    The Department of Commerce will submit the following information 
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for 
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the 
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and 
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of 
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's 
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the 
Federal Register on January 7, 2020, during a 60-day comment period. 
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
    Agency: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
    Title: Large Pelagic Fishing Survey.
    OMB Control Number: 0648-0380.
    Form Number(s): None.
    Type of Request: Regular submission (extension of a current 
information collection).
    Number of Respondents: 15,024.
    Average Hours per Response: 11 minutes for a telephone interview; 5 
minutes for a dockside interview; 1\1/2\ minutes to respond to a 
follow-up validation call for dockside interviews; 1 minute for a 
biological sampling of catch.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,608.
    Needs and Uses: This request is for extension of a currently 
approved

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information collection. The Large Pelagic Fishing Survey consists of 
dockside and telephone surveys of recreational anglers for large 
pelagic fish (tunas, sharks, and billfish) in the Atlantic Ocean. The 
survey provides the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) with 
information to monitor catch of bluefin tuna, marlin and other 
federally managed species. Catch monitoring in these fisheries and 
collection of catch and effort statistics for all pelagic fish is 
required under the Atlantic Tunas Convention Act and the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Telephone survey 
portion species-level response options have been updated to include 
blue marlin, roundscale spearfish, and porbeagle beginning in 2020. The 
information collected by the Large Pelagic Fishing Survey is essential 
for the United States (U.S.) to meet its reporting obligations to the 
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: Annually, weekly, or on occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Mandatory.
    Legal Authority: Atlantic Tunas Convention Act and the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
    This information collection request may be viewed at 
www.reginfo.gov. Follow the instructions to view the Department of 
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of 
this notice on the following website www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently 
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search 
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB 
Control Number 0648-0380.

Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2020-10046 Filed 5-11-20; 8:45 am]
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