HYANNIS – NOAA Fisheries is estimating that there is funding to reimburse 60 percent of at-sea-monitoring costs for the 2017 fishing year.
Fisheries observers are provided and typically paid for by the Federal government and at-sea monitors are partially paid for by industry in the at-sea monitoring program.
Last year, industry began paying their portion of at-sea monitoring costs and NOAA Fisheries was able to reimburse 85 percent of industry’s expenses for July 2016-April 2017.
Any sector trip beginning on or after May 1 is now eligible for reimbursement.
Officials say that they have based their reimbursement rate on one that they anticipate will be consistent through the entire fishing year.
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