Code of Maine Rules
13 - DEPARTMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES
188 - MARINE RESOURCES - GENERAL
Chapter 5 - CONFIDENTIALITY OF FISHERIES STATISTICS
Section 188-5-30 - Release of Statistics
Universal Citation: 13 ME Code Rules ยง 188-5-30
Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024
A. The Commissioner shall not disclose to the public any statistics in other than aggregate or summary form. Disclosure as required by court order shall be made only after approval of the Attorney General.
1. Data,
statistics, or information in aggregate or summary form means the combined data
of three or more submitters. The data shall be assembled in such a manner as
not to reveal the identity of any dealer, harvester, business, person or
vessel.
2. When data is such that
it cannot be provided in aggregate or summary form, then that data may only be
released to the extent it is determined, by authorized Department staff, that
its release will not reveal the identity of any dealer, harvester, business,
person or vessel, or written permission for the release of the data has been
obtained from the submitter(s).
B. All requests for statistics submitted shall be processed consistent with the Maine Freedom of Access law ( 1 M.R.S.A. §401 et seq.).
1. Authorized Department personnel have the
authority to issue initial denials of requests subject to the Maine Freedom of
Access law for statistics.
2.
Appeals from initial denials should be addressed to the Commissioner,
Department of Marine Resources, State House Station 21, Augusta, Maine
04333-0021.
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