Licensed commercial fishers in Hawaii can now submit their monthly commercial fishing reports online using a free new system implemented by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources (DAR).
“DLNR is providing fishers this new online system as a quick and convenient alternative method of submitting monthly commercial fishing reports, which are required by law,” said Laura H. Thielen, DLNR chairperson.
The web-site address is https://dlnr.ehawaii.gov/cmls-fr. Only fishers with a valid commercial marine license issued by DLNR will be able to submit on-line reports, and must enter identifying information to log in to the secured system via their license record.
Some of the features of the online fishing report system include:
- Ability to view report submission status
- Easy to submit “Did Not Fish” report for months in which a fisher had no activity
- Drop down windows for area fish code, gear, landing port and species to facilitate report completion
- An option to save data entries for each individual fishing trip until a fisher is ready to submit their report at end of the month
- Ability to print a copy of the monthly report for the fisher’s business records
- Option to download an extract of the fishing report record for import into the fisher’s favourite software so they can analyze their own fishery performance
- A link to the DAR online commercial marine licensing system that allows renewal of a commercial marine license online
During the initial phase of this on-line project, only the fishing report form can be submitted online. Other report forms, including the commercial aquarium catch, deep-sea hand line trip, tuna hand line trip, net/trap/dive activity reports, will be available for on-line reporting in the near future.
