Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 68B-65.003 - [Effective 7/1/2025] Reporting Requirements
(1) Persons
Responsible for Reporting - The following persons are required to report
information on commercially harvested marine organisms to the Commission:
(a) A wholesale dealer who purchases a marine
organism in Florida from a commercial harvester.
(b) A wholesale dealer who is also a
commercial harvester and who harvests a marine organism and places such marine
organism into their own wholesale dealer inventory in Florida.
(c) A wholesale dealer who does not purchase
or receive a commercially harvested marine organism in Florida from a
commercial harvester during a reporting period must report such information to
the Commission for each applicable reporting period.
(d) A person who commercially harvested a
marine organism and does not sell such marine organism to a wholesale dealer.
This includes instances when a person donates a commercially harvested marine
organism, retains a commercially harvested marine organism for personal use, or
when a person is unable to sell a commercially harvested marine organism to a
wholesale dealer.
(e) A person who
commercially harvested a marine organism and sells the marine organism in a
state other than Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New
York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, or
Maine.
(2) Information to
be Reported -
(a) Except as provided in
paragraph (b), a person responsible for reporting information on commercially
harvested marine organisms to the Commission pursuant to subsection (1) must
submit a trip ticket with the following information for each trip:
1. Name and Saltwater Products License number
of the commercial harvester who harvested the marine organism.
2. Wholesale Dealer License number of the
wholesale dealer who purchased the marine organism from the commercial
harvester.
3. Date of
sale.
4. Information on where,
when, and how the marine organism was harvested, including the gear used for
harvest.
5. Landing
location.
6. Quantity of each
species of marine organism harvested.
7. Price paid per pound or per unit of
measure for each species of marine organism purchased.
8. Species-level
information.
(b)
Exceptions.
1. A person required to report
pursuant to paragraph (1)(d) must report the information in subparagraphs
(2)(a)1., (2)(a)4., (2)(a)5., (2)(a)6., and (2)(a)8.
2. A wholesale dealer who does not purchase
or receive a marine organism in Florida from a commercial harvester during a
reporting period must report such information to the Commission in lieu of the
information required by paragraph (2)(a).
(c) A person reporting information on
commercially harvested marine organisms pursuant to this subsection may combine
the information required by paragraph (2)(a) or by subparagraph (2)(b)1. for a
single trip into one trip ticket report.
(d) A person reporting information on
commercially harvested marine organisms pursuant to this subsection may not
combine the information required by paragraph (2)(a) or by subparagraph
(2)(b)1. for more than one trip into one trip ticket report.
(e) A commercial harvester who sells or
donates a marine organism to a wholesale dealer in Florida must provide to the
wholesale dealer, at the time of sale, accurate information pertaining to
subparagraphs (2)(a)1., (2)(a)4., (2)(a)5., (2)(a)6., and
(2)(a)8.
(3) Reporting
Period - Reporting periods are weekly, beginning on Sunday and ending on the
following Saturday.
(a) A wholesale dealer
required to submit a report pursuant to paragraph (1)(a) must report a trip
ticket for each purchase of marine organisms made during the reporting
period.
(b) A person required to
submit a report pursuant to paragraphs (1)(b), (1)(d), or (1)(e) must report a
trip ticket for each fishing trip that landed commercially harvested marine
organisms during the reporting period.
(4) Reporting Deadlines
(a) A person required to report to the
Commission pursuant to this rule must submit all trip ticket reports no later
than 11:59 p.m., local time, on the first Tuesday following the end of each
reporting period.
(b) A person
required to report to the Commission pursuant to subsection (1) may not possess
a commercially harvested marine organism after the reporting deadline specified
in paragraph (4)(a) has passed if the harvest of the marine organism has not
been reported to the Commission pursuant to the reporting requirements
established in this rule.
(5) Submission of Reports -
(a) A wholesale dealer required to report
information on commercially harvested marine organisms pursuant to subsection
(1) must submit reports to the Commission's Marine Fisheries Trip Ticket
Program via the VESL software application published by Bluefin Data LLC,
available online at: https://www.bluefindata.com.
(b) A person required to report information
on commercially harvested marine organisms pursuant to paragraphs (1)(d) or
(1)(e) must submit required reports to the Commission using one of the
following methods:
1. If the commercial
harvester is also a wholesale dealer, they must submit trip ticket reports to
the Commission's Marine Fisheries Trip Ticket Program via the VESL software
application published by Bluefin Data LLC, available online at:
https://www.bluefindata.com.
2. If the commercial harvester is not a
wholesale dealer, they must submit trip ticket reports to the Commission's
Marine Fisheries Trip Ticket Program by completing and returning to the
Commission a "Commercial Harvester-reported Landings Form" (Form DMF-CHRL2024,
September 2024), incorporated herein by reference and available at
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?NO=Ref-17645.
Notes
Rulemaking Authority Article IV, Section 9, Fla. Const. Law Implemented 379.361, 379.362 FS.
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