DATA COLLECTION & AT-SEA MONITORS. The Service Provider must ensure that all 19 At‐Sea Monitors are trained and equipped in accordance with NEFSC/NMFS 20 standards. At‐Sea Monitors (“ASM”) primary responsibility is to collect accurate 21 actual weights on the discard portion of the catch, as well as accounting for all catch 22 (kept and discarded) on each tow/haul. Data collected by the ASM will be used to 23 quantify the discards that occur on that trip. This data will also be used to estimate 24 the discards that occur by sector vessel trips that were not selected to take an ASM.
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Samples: Sector Operations Plan and Agreement, Sector Operations Plan and Agreement, Sector Operations Plan and Agreement
