Common Questions About What Data to Enter
String or Set or Buoy Number
Identifying code selected by you to track your sets. This is numbered by default, but you can change to any name, letter or number of your choosing (such as a buoy number or other piece of reference information).
Set and Retrieval Times, Locations and Depths
Bottom Longline: Create a new set in the app each time you set a longline.
- Set Info: Record the start date and time, latitude, longitude and depth when you begin setting the longline. Record the end latitude, longitude and depth when you get to the end of the line.
- Retrieve Info: Record the end date when you retrieve the longline. Record the number of lost skates or tubs from the line.
Pot Gear: Create a new set in the app each time you set a new string of pots.
- Set Info: Record the start date and time, latitude, longitude and depth when you begin setting the pots. Record the end latitude, longitude and depth when the last pot is deployed.
- Retrieve Info: Record the end date when you retrieve the string of pots. Record the number of lost pots for the set.
Other Hook and Line Gear Types: If you are not using traditional bottom longline or pot gear, then you are not required to record the time and location of each individual set. Instead, a set will be defined by generic fishing location, not by each piece of gear set in the water. Start recording information for a new set if (A) the vessel moves to a distinguishably different fishing location (e.g., a new reef); this is a judgement call made by the fishing crew; or (B) the vessel moves to a different fishing location greater than one nautical mile away.
- Set Info: Record the set date and time, latitude, and longitude when the first hook goes in the water. Record the average gear Depth off Bottom (distance from the sea floor to your gear).
- Retrieve Info: Record the retrieval date and time, latitude and longitude when the last hook is pulled for a fishing location.
Catch Species, Counts and Weights
Record catch and discards for any groundfish species managed under the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP). Fishers will not be required to record non-groundfish species, either retained or discarded.
Catch must be sorted according to standard sector regulations (i.e., same sorting requirements used at landing).
For each species, record the piece count and estimated weight of retained and released fish. Weights are the best estimate of the fisher; scale weight accuracy is not expected.
Add Vessels or Check for updates
From the main menu, go to ‘Settings’ to add a new vessel or check for app updates
Update your email or phone number
Use ‘My Profile’ from the main menu to change the name, phone number, or email associated with the account
Adding a Set to a Completed Delivery
- To add a set for an already submitted delivery, you will need to create a new set on the Home Page. You can do this by clicking the House icon on the top left corner if you are not currently on the home page
- You can create the new set by clicking the + icon which is to the right of “Open Logbook Sets”
- Once you have finished creating your set, go back to Home page and click the “Completed Deliveries” section which can be found by selecting the 3 horizontal bars on the top right corner
- Click on the Delivery that you would like to edit
- This will direct you to the “Editing Logbook” section of delivery where you will select the “edit” button located on the top right corner
- You can then add the set to the delivery that you previously made on the home page by clicking the + button which is located to the right of “Sets Included in Delivery”
- This will bring up the set that you created on the home page. To add this new set, you need to click on the box which is located on the right side of the set you want to add. Then select “OK”.
- Once you have added the new set and are ready to resubmit, click the “Submit Delivery” button on the bottom right corner. This will bring you to the “Delivery Submission Review” page where you will submit edits.
**You have 7 days to edit a Delivery from the first submission date. After the 7 days, the edit button will no longer appear and you will have to contact FedElog@psmfc.org in order to correct your Delivery**