Secretarial Review Draft Regulatory Impact Review / Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Proposed Amendment 42 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs Modification of Economic Data Reports

• Main Authors: Bering Sea/aleutian Isl, S Crab Fisheries
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Aleutian Island; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.365.5786; http://www.alaskafisheries.noaa.gov/analyses/crab/amd42ririrfa0213.pdf

In August of 2005, fishing in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab fisheries began under a new sharebased management program (the “program”). As a part of the program, the Council developed an economic data collection program (referred to as “economic data reports ” or EDR) to provide information to analysts to assess the effects of the program and future amendments to the program. Based on reviews of the data, it has been established that certain data elements collected are not accurately or consistently reported across respondents, preventing their use for some of their intended purposes, and other elements are wholly or partially redundant with other data collection. To address these shortcomings, as well as to address what is perceived excessive costs associated with the data collection, the Council has initiated this action to revise the data collection program. Purpose and Need Statement To guide its action to revise the data collection program, the Council has developed the following purpose and need statement: As a part of its Bering Sea and Aleutian Island crab rationalization (CR) program, the Council developed a comprehensive economic data collection (“EDR”) program to provide information to analysts to assess the effects of the CR program and identify problems that may require future