# Fisheries off West Coast States and in the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery; Groundfish Observer Program
> **Rule** · Interim final rule; request for comments. · Published 2004-06-07 · Effective 2004-07-07 · 69 FR 31751
## Document
- **Document number:** 04-12707
- **Category:** fishery-mgmt
- **Region:** west coast
- **Federal Register citation:** 69 FR 31751
- **Publication date:** 2004-06-07
- **Effective date:** 2004-07-07
- **NOAA docket:** Docket 980702167-4150-03
## Abstract

NMFS is publishing this interim final rule to amend the regulations implementing the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan (FMP) to provide for a mandatory, vessel-financed observer program on at-sea processing vessels. This action is necessary to satisfy the standardized bycatch reporting methodology requirements of the 1996 Sustainable Fisheries Act amendments to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act).

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2004/06/07/04-12707/fisheries-off-west-coast-states-and-in-the-western-pacific-pacific-coast-groundfish-fishery)
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