segregated from other catch (up to 2,000 pounds round weight) – OBSERVER VIOLATIONS 1. Fail to notify observer, observer provider or NMFS to bringing fish on board, offloading, receipt or transfer of fish, or of $1,000/instance up to 3 planned operations (e.g. register a fishing trip, $1,500/instance $2,000/instance up to 3 instances salmon count/sampling crew entering fish up to 3 instances instances tank/bin, fish removals or additions to bin, etc.); discarding samples; tampering with observer gear 2. Fail to meet required observer coverage, if $1,000/day up to 10 $1,500/day up to vessel is subject to partial coverage $2,000/day up to 10 days days 10 days requirement 3. Presort or discard any catch prior to giving $2,500 per $3,000 per observer opportunity to sample or prior to documented fish or documented fish $4,000 per documented completing sampling; incident up to 6 or incident up to incident up to 6 incidents incidents 6 incidents 4. sorting catch before the observer has $3,000 per $2,500 per documented $4,000 per documented completed counting and collecting documented incident up to 2 incident up to 2 samples/data from previous haul incident up to 2 5. Require observer to perform duties normally performed by crew members (up to $1,000/violation $1,250/violation $1,500/violation two violations) 6. Fail to allow observer access to area, catch, equipment or records, or to provide required $2,000/instance $2,500/instance $3,000/instance records (up to two instances) 7. Deploy an observer for more than 90 days $1,500/day $2,000/day $2,500/day (up to 5 days in each calendar year)
segregated from other catch (up to 2,000 pounds – round weight) OBSERVER VIOLATIONS 1. Fail to notify observer, observer provider or NMFS to bringing fish on board, offloading, receipt or transfer of fish, or of planned operations (e.g. register a fishing trip, salmon count/sampling crew entering fish tank/bin, fish removals or additions to bin, etc.); discarding samples; tampering with observer gear $1,000/instance up to 3 instances $1,500/instance up to 3 instances $2,000/instance up to 3 instances 2. Fail to meet required observer coverage, if vessel is subject to partial coverage requirement $1,000/day up to 10 days $1,500/day up to 10 days $2,000/day up to 10 days 3. Presort or discard any catch prior to giving observer opportunity to sample or prior to completing sampling; $2,500 per documented fish or incident up to 6 incidents $3,000 per documented fish or incident up to 6 incidents $4,000 per documented incident up to 6 incidents 4. sorting catch before the observer has completed counting and collecting samples/data from previous haul $2,500 per documented incident up to 2 $3,000 per documented incident up to 2 $4,000 per documented incident up to 2 5. Require observer to perform duties normally performed by crew members (up to two violations) $1,000/violation $1,250/violation $1,500/violation 6. Fail to allow observer access to area, catch, equipment or records, or to provide required records (up to two instances) $2,000/instance $2,500/instance $3,000/instance 7. Deploy an observer for more than 90 days (up to 5 days in each calendar year) $1,500/day $2,000/day $2,500/day
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