Confidentiality

Your individual data are completely confidential. Information about your personal trips and catches will only be shared with management agencies such as the National Marine Fisheries Service, Councils, and state agencies to enable better fisheries management. Information from your trips will be combined with at least three other anglers (on other vessels) when describing catch and effort in a public setting. Fishing locations will be no smaller than 2 square mile blocks that include at least three anglers reporting in that location.