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Fishermens Comment Card Results 2008

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Pre-Trip Vessel Safety Checklist
- March 2009

Trip Refusal Report Form
- March 2007

Observer Program Manual
- January 2008

Biological Sampling Manual
- January 2008

NEFOP Memos

Loran to Latitude-Longitude Conversion Program

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OBSCON Worksheet
- July 2006

Optional Species Weight Worksheets
- October 2007

Guide To Reporting Whale Sightings (NERO)

Sea Day Schedule Area Assignment (FSB)

Observer Duties and Legal Responsibilities of the Captain
- January 2009

Projected Sea Day Schedule 2009
- as of 04/13/09

Projected Sea Day Schedule 2008
- as of 08/13/08

Projected Sea Day Schedule 2007
- as of 08/09/07

Monthly Observer Sea Days (FSB)

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NEFOP Safety Questionnaire Results (2006)

Standardized Bycatch Reporting Methodology (SBRM) Annual Discard Reports
- as of 02/12/09

NEFSC Announces the 2008 Northeast Fishing Vessel Annual Cost Survey

Fishing Vessel Operating Cost Revenue Summary Report (SSB)

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Observer Equipment List
- as of 02/04/08

Observer Performance Monitoring, Review, Probation and Decertification
- as of 03/02/09

NEFOP Training Standards
- as of 08/01/07

NEFOP Certification Training

NOAA Fisheries Observer Program Service Announcement -2008 Northeast Fisheries Observer Program Requirements

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NE Permit Holder Letters

NOAA Press Release, Bycatch Strategy, 03/06/03

Fishery Market News

Amendment 13- NE Groundfish Assessment

Amendment 13- Updates

Assesment of 19 NE Groundfish Stocks through 2004

Calculating Observer Coverage by Paul Wade

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NEFSC Reference Document #06-09 - 42nd (SAW) Stock Assessment Report

NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-182

NOAA Technical Memorandum US Atl & Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments

NOAA Reference Document-"Mortality & Serious Injury-Baleen Whale"

NEFSC Reference Document #07-19 - Allocating Observer Sea Days to Bottom Trawl and Gillnet Fisheries in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions to Monitor and Estimate Incidental Bycatch of Marine Mammals

An investigation of three methods of mesh size meansurement by R.S.T. Ferro, L. Xu

NEFSC Reference Document #08-09 - Bycatch of Harbor Porpoises in Three U.S. Gillnet Management Areas: Southern Mid-Atlantic, Offshore, and Western Gulf of Maine

NEFSC Reference Document #08-10 - Harbor Porpoise Bycatch Rates that Indicate Compliance with Pinger Regulations for the Northeast Gillnet Fishery

NEFSC Reference Document #08-11 - 47th (SAW) Stock Assessment Workshop Assessment Summary Report

Characteristics of sea turtles incidentally captured in the U.S. Atlantic sea scallop dredge fishery

NEFSC Reference Document series: "Estimated average annual bycatch of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in US Mid-Atlantic bottom otter trawl gear, 1996-2004 (2nd edition)

Occurrence and Patterns of Antibiotic Resistance Invertebrates of The Northeastern United States Coast

Molecular Characterization of Giardia Intestinalis Haplotypes in Marine Animals: Variation and
Zoonotic Potential

Victims or Vectors: A Survey of Marine Vertebrate Zoonoses From Coastal Waters of the Northwest Atlantic

Vessel Selection Bias Report

Northeast Fisheries Observer Program Request Notice (What to expect during an observed trip)

NE Fisheries Regulations

NMFS Fishery Regulation Information Sheets

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA)

At-Sea Sampler and Observer Coverage (MSA)
- posted 10/01/08

Sustainable Fisheries Act

Endangered Species Act (ESA)

Observer Requirement for Fisheries Under the (ESA), Final Rule 08/2007

Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA)

Marine Mammal Authorization Program (MMPA)

Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan (MMPA)

List of Fisheries, 2009

Notice to Industry concerning changes in Observer Health & Safety Regulations

Observer Health and Safety Regs, Final Rule 11/01/2007

Bycatch Decision, Federal Register, 03/11/03

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