SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. To promote safety at sea, the Sector sets forth the following protocol for variance from the landing ports listed. If for reasons beyond a vessel operators control such as severe weather, mechanical failures, compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and danger of sinking, crew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency situations that may arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as “Landing Ports” to ensure the safety of the vessel and it’s crew. If the vessel has been selected for dockside monitoring, the vessel will not offload fish, until a dockside monitor is present, or a waiver has been granted. The vessel operator must contact the Dockside Monitoring vendor to obtain a waiver from dockside monitoring for the trip. The vessel operator may request and be granted a waiver from dockside monitoring due to the situations described here in Section 23.7. In addition, the vessel operator may request and be granted a waiver from dockside monitoring if either the Coast Guard (“CG”), Environmental Police (“EP”), or NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement (“OLE”) are on scene and determine it is necessary for offloading to occur in order to improve a safety or vessel integrity concern.
SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. To promote safety at sea, the Sector sets forth the following protocol for 3 variance from the landing ports listed. If for reasons beyond a vessel operators control such as 4 severe weather, mechanical failures, compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and 5 danger of sinking, crew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency situations that 6 may arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as “Landing Ports” to ensure the 7 safety of the vessel and its crew. In the event that a Sector Vessel must utilize this safe harbor
SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. 17 To promote safety at sea, the Sector sets forth the following protocol for variance from 18 the landing ports listed. If for reasons beyond a vessel operator’s control such as severe 19 weather, mechanical failures, compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and 20 danger of sinking, crew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency 21 situations that may arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as 22 “Landing Ports” to ensure the safety of the vessel and its crew. In the event that a Sector 24 OLE of when and where they had to seek safe harbor within 6 hours of this entering the 25 port. 27 2.3. Administrative
SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. To promote safety at sea, the sector sets forth the following protocols for 3 variance from the landing ports listed. If for reasons beyond a vessel operators control such as 4 severe weather, mechanical failures, compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and 5 danger of sinking, grew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency situations that 6 may arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as “Landing Ports” to ensure the 7 safety of the vessel and its crew. In the event that a sector vessel must utilize this safe harbor 8 protocol, they must notify the sector manager and NMFS OLE of when and where they had to 3 Prohibition on combining small-mesh exempted fishery and sector trips 5 The exemption applies to sector trips only and is intended to allow a vessel to catch small-mesh species 6 after targeting groundfish. Under this exemption, a sector vessel must fish with trawl nets that meet 7 current regulatory requirements and sector exemptions during the first part of the trip, but may switch to 8 modified small-mesh gear for the second portion of the trip. The small-mesh portion of the trip must be 9 fished in the Sector Small-Mesh Fishery Exemption Area, described below, and must use the modified 10 small-mesh gear described below. A vessel may land xxxxxxx, longfin squid, mackerel, xxxxxxx and other 11 species permitted for retention in small-mesh exempted fisheries, provided the vessel still meets the 12 requirements of those fisheries. For more information on small-mesh fishery exemptions and permitted 13 species see: 14 xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xxx/regs/infodocs/small_mesh_exemptions.pdf 15 Vessels may not fish the small-mesh portion of their trip using this exemption in the Southern 16 Windowpane Accountability Measure Areas, where they overlap with the exemption area. 1 • A drop chain sweep with a minimum drop of 12 inches (30.48 cm) in length, with a 24 inch 2 headrope setback; or 4 • A large mesh belly panel with a minimum mesh size of 32 inches (81.28 cm), with the meshes 5 hung on the half (hanging ration of 2:1); or 7 • An excluder grate secured forward of the codend with an outlet hole forward of the grate with bar 8 spacing no more than 1.97 inches (5.00 cm) wide. 10 In order to use this exemption, the following additional conditions and restrictions apply:
SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. To promote safety at sea, the Sector sets forth the following protocol for 23 variance from the landing ports listed. If for reasons beyond a vessel operators control such as 24 severe weather, mechanical failures, compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and 25 danger of sinking, crew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency situations that 26 may arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as “Landing Ports” to ensure the 27 safety of the vessel and its crew. In the event that a Sector Vessel must utilize this safe harbor 28 protocol, they must notify their Manager and NMFS OLE of when and where they had to seek safe 29 harbor within 6 hours of this entering the port.
SAFE HARBOR PROTOCOL. To promote safety at sea, the Sector sets forth 12 the following protocol for variance from the landing ports listed. If for reasons 13 beyond a vessel operators control such as severe weather, mechanical failures, 14 compromised hull integrity, instances of pump failures and danger of sinking, 15 crew injury or life threatening illness and any other emergency situations that may 16 arise, a sector vessel may enter a port other than those listed as “Landing Ports” to 17 ensure the safety of the vessel and its crew. In the event that a Sector Vessel must 18 utilize this safe harbor protocol, they must notify their Manager and NMFS OLE 19 of when and where they had to seek safe harbor within 6 hours of this entering the 20 port. 24 2.3.1. Fishing in US/CA Areas 25 26 Sector participating vessels may fish in the both the Eastern and Western 27 US/Canada Areas. When reporting their catch to the Sector Manager, the 28 operators of all Sector member vessels will specify the volume of catch 29 and discards from each area. 30 31 Members electing to enter the Eastern US/CA area are required to comply 32 with the observer notification reporting and VMS reporting requirements 33 for that area.
