MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDINGSeptember 10th, 2002
FiledSeptember 10th, 2002to design and implement a cooperative state-federal marine and coastal (estuarine, anadromous, catadromous) fisheries statistics program that adequately meets the needs of fishery managers, scientists, and fishermen. The partners recognize their mutual interdependence in compiling fisheries dependent and fisheries independent data bases that meet their short-term and long-term information needs, and the partners commit to each other their best efforts towards designing and conducting a program to address these needs in an efficient, practical manner.