Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 76 - WILDLIFE AND FISHERIES › Part VII - Fish and Other Aquatic Life › Chapter 2 - General Provisions › Section VII-205 - Charter Boat Fishing Guide License Landings Report

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Participation in the Charter Boat Fishing
				Guide License landings report is voluntary. Those persons who hold a charter
				fishing guide license may choose to participate and all information collected
				shall be held confidential under
				R.S.
				56:301.4 and LAC 76:I.319 and 321.
B. The charter boat fishing guide license
				report form shall be a two-part numbered form or electronic reporting system
				provided by the department at the request of the license holder. The charter
				boat fishing guide license report form may be completed at the end of each
				"charter boat fishing trip". For the purpose of this rule a "charter boat
				fishing trip" is defined as the time when a vessel leaves a Louisiana based
				access site to the time the vessel returns to the Louisiana based access site,
				captained by a Louisiana licensed resident or non-resident charter boat license
				holder, carrying passengers for a fee, for the express purpose of capture,
				release or harvest of finfish in Louisiana state waters or adjacent federal
				waters. The charter boat license holder may fill out the report form in its
				entirety containing all of the information requested in Subsection C of this
				Section. In addition, those vessels operating under a charter boat mothership
				license should complete the charter boat landings report for each charter boat
				fishing trip a licensed charter boat skiff tied to that mothership makes. The
				"charter guide license copy" of the report should be maintained on file at the
				charter guide license holder place of business. The "department copy" portion
				of the charter guide license report form should be returned to the department
				by the charter guide license holder by the tenth of each month to include all
				charter boat fishing trips during the previous month. Along with the reports
				for each month, the charter guide license holder should submit a "monthly
				submission sheet" provided by the department that confirms that the charter
				boat fishing trips submitted represent all or a portion of the charter boat
				fishing trips by that charter guide license holder for that particular month.
				The charter guide license holder should mail completed receipt forms to a
				pre-determined address designated by the department. Charter guide license
				holders may request charter boat fishing guide license report forms or the
				electronic reporting system from the department by calling a phone number to be
				publicized by the department.
C.
				The charter guide license holder may record the following information on the
				charter boat fishing guide license report form at the time of the completion of
				a charter boat fishing trip:
1. charter guide
				name;
2. charter guide license
				number;
3. vessel name and
				Louisiana or Coast Guard documentation number;
4. charter boat fishing trip start and end
				time and start and end year, month and day;
5. public or private access type;
6. primary area fished and depth
				fished;
7. Louisiana artificial
				reef fished;
8. total number of
				hours fished;
9. all fishing
				methods utilized;
10. hours
				actively fishing per fishing method;
11. total number of paying passengers who
				fished by resident and non-resident categories;
12. permit type and permit issuer for those
				species requiring a state or federal permit to harvest;
13. licensed charter guide captain signature
				certifying the information is true and correct.