Opinion ID: 2204600
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Doubleday's established fishery participation and the fish ticket system

Text: Doubleday held interim-use permits for the longline sablefish fishery every year from 1979 through 1984. Under the permitting system at the time, these permitsknown as C61B permitswere valid statewide. He licensed two vessels, one of which he used primarily for longlining and specially outfitted in 1980 with longlining gear designed for sablefish. It is not disputed that Doubleday caught 175 pounds of sablefish in 1981 and 1,502 pounds in 1982 in the area now known as the Southern fishery. When a fisher sells his catch to a processor, the processor is required to generate a record of this sale known as a fish ticket. [8] As the hearing officer explained in denying Doubleday's permit application, fish tickets are filed and recorded independently of one another each year by the Department of Fish and Game. Of the copies of fish tickets in the State's files from 1979-1984, the CFEC located 87 for Doubleday. Only two are for sablefishboth caught in the Southern fishery. No fish tickets in the State's records show Doubleday's participation in the Northern fishery.