---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 679.54"
title: "50"
number: "679.54"
heading: "Release of observer data to the public."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/679.54"
---

# §679.54. Release of observer data to the public.

- (a) **Summary of weekly data.** The following information collected by observers for each catcher/processor and catcher vessel during any weekly reporting period may be made available to the public:
  - (1) **Vessel name and Federal permit number.**
  - (2) **Number of Chinook salmon and “other salmon” observed.**
  - (3) The ratio of total round weight of incidentally caught halibut or Pacific herring to the total round weight of groundfish in sampled catch.
  - (4) **The ratio of number of king crab or <I>C.** bairdi Tanner crab to the total round weight of groundfish in sampled hauls.
  - (5) **The number of observed trawl hauls or fixed gear sets.**
  - (6) **The number of trawl hauls that were basket sampled.**
  - (7) **The total weight of basket samples taken from sampled trawl hauls.**
- (b) **Haul-specific data.**
  - (1) The information listed in [paragraphs (b)(1)(i) through (xiii)](#b-1-i..b-1-xiii) of this section and collected by observers from observed hauls on board vessels using trawl gear to participate in a directed fishery for groundfish other than rockfish, Greenland turbot, or Atka mackerel may be made available to the public:
    - (i) **Date.**
    - (ii) **Time of day gear is deployed.**
    - (iii) **Latitude and longitude at beginning of haul.**
    - (iv) **Bottom depth.**
    - (v) **Fishing depth of trawl.**
    - (vi) **The ratio of the number of Chinook salmon to the total round weight of groundfish.**
    - (vii) **The ratio of the number of other salmon to the total round weight of groundfish.**
    - (viii) The ratio of total round weight of incidentally caught halibut to the total round weight of groundfish.
    - (ix) **The ratio of total round weight of herring to the total round weight of groundfish.**
    - (x) **The ratio of the number of king crab to the total round weight of groundfish.**
    - (xi) **The ratio of the number of <I>C.** bairdi Tanner crab to the total round weight of groundfish.
    - (xii) **Sea surface temperature (where available).**
    - (xiii) **Sea temperature at fishing depth of trawl (where available).**
  - (2) The identity of the vessels from which the data in [paragraph (b)(1)](#b-1) of this section are collected will not be released.
- (c) **Competitive harm.** In exceptional circumstances, the owners and operators of vessels may provide to the Regional Administrator written justification at the time observer data are submitted, or within a reasonable time thereafter, that disclosure of the information listed in paragraphs [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) of this section could reasonably be expected to cause substantial competitive harm. The determination whether to disclose the information will be made pursuant to [15 CFR 4.7](/cfr/15/4.7.md).

## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 70101, Nov. 21, 2012]

### Source

Source: 61 FR 56431, Nov. 1, 1996, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 773 et seq.; 1801 et seq.; 3631 et seq.; Pub. L. 108-447; Pub. L. 111-281.

### Amendments

[77 FR 70101, Nov. 21, 2012]