Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 3, March 1, 2024
(1) A monthly report is required of all
licensed:
(a) Wholesale fish dealers,
wholesale fish bait dealers, food fish canners, or shellfish canners receiving
food fish or shellfish from licensed commercial fishers or bait
fishers;
(b) Limited Fish Sellers
selling food fish or shellfish.
(2) Except as provided in OAR 635-006-0220,
the report is required even though no food fish or shellfish are received or
sold during the calendar month covered by the report.
(3) The following information shall be
included on the report:
(a) Fish dealer's
name, license number, and address;
(b) Calendar month of the report;
(c) Serial numbers of all Fish Receiving
Tickets issued during the month;
(d) Total pounds of all salmon and steelhead
received or sold during the calendar month on which poundage fees are due.
Salmon and steelhead may be reported as round weight, dressed head on or
dressed head off;
(e) Total value
of salmon and steelhead received or sold during the calendar month including
fish eggs and parts;
(f) Total
value of all other food fish and shellfish including eggs and parts;
(g) Total pounds in the round of all other
species of food fish or shellfish received or sold during the calendar month on
which taxes are due. When landed in a dressed condition, the following listed
species may be converted to round weight for the purposes of completing monthly
reports, by multiplying each applicable below-listed factor by the dressed
weight of that species:
(A) Troll salmon:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.15
(ii) Gilled, gutted, and headed
1.30
(B) Treaty Indian
Fishery Columbia River salmon and steelhead trout: Gilled and gutted
1.17
(C) Halibut:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.15
(ii) Gilled, gutted, and headed
1.35
(D) Sablefish,
gutted and headed 1.60
(E) Pacific
whiting:
(i) Fillet 2.86
(ii) Headed and gutted 1.56
(iii) Headed and gutted with tail removed
2.0
(F) Thresher shark,
gutted and headed 1.41
(G) Blue
shark, gutted and headed 1.49
(H)
Pacific spiny dogfish, gutted and headed 1.81
(I) Shortfin mako shark, gutted and headed
1.45
(J) Soupfin shark, gutted and
headed 1.96
(K) Other sharks,
gutted and headed 1.72
(L)
Swordfish gutted and headed, with fins and bloodline removed 1.45
(M) Lingcod:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.1
(ii) Gilled, gutted and headed 1.5
(N) Spot prawn, tails
2.24
(O) Rockfish (including
thornyheads), except Pacific Ocean Perch:
(i)
Gilled and gutted 1.14
(ii) Gutted
and headed 1.75
(iii) Gutted and
headed, with collarbone still attached to body (western cut) 1.66
(iv) Gutted and headed, with collarbone
removed from body (eastern cut) 2.0
(P) Pacific Ocean Perch:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.14
(ii) Gutted and headed 1.6
(Q) Pacific Cod:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.23
(ii) Gutted and headed 1.58
(R) Dover sole, English sole, and
"other flatfish" as defined in Title 50 of the Code of Federal
Regulations, part 660 Subpart C, gutted and headed
1.53
(S) Petrale sole:
(i) Gilled and gutted 1.16
(ii) Gutted and headed 1.51
(T) Arrowtooth flounder, gutted
and headed 1.35
(U) Starry
flounder, gutted and headed 1.49
(V) Groundfish, glazed:
(i) Conversion factors must be calculated for
each landing for each species or species group categorized in OAR 635-006-0209
when there are 60 or greater individuals of a category in a single landing as
follows:
(I) Weigh a sample of at least 20
glazed fish to obtain the glazed weight;
(II) Completely remove glaze from individual
fish making up the sample;
(III)
Re-weigh the sample to obtain the non-glazed weight;
(IV) Divide the non-glazed weight by the
glazed weight to obtain the conversion factor;
(V) A separate conversion factor may be
calculated for each size grade of a species, but may only be applied to
landings of that size grade;
(VI)
Documentation of this calculation must be retained with the dock receiving
ticket.
(ii) A
conversion factor of 0.95 must be applied when there are fewer than 60
individuals of any species or species group categorized in OAR 635-006-0209 in
a single landing.
(h) Total value of food fish landed in
another state but not taxed by that state;
(i) Total pounds in the round of all food
fish landed in another state but not taxed by that state;
(j) Total fees due - in accordance with ORS
508.505 the fees are the value
of the food fish at the point of landing multiplied by the following rates:
(A) All salmon and steelhead, 3.15
percent.
(B) Effective January 1,
2005, all black rockfish, blue rockfish and nearshore fish (as defined by ORS
506.011), 5.00
percent.
(C) Effective January 1,
2010, all other food fish (except tuna, shellfish, crab, shrimp, sablefish, and
whiting, as defined by ORS
508.505) and all other
groundfish, 2.25 percent.
(D) All
tuna (as defined by ORS
508.505), 1.09
percent.
(E) All crab, 2.35
percent.
(F) All sablefish, 2.40
percent.
(G) All sardines, 2.25
percent.
(H) All shellfish, 2.30
percent.
(I) All shrimp, 2.40
percent.
(J) All whiting, 2.30
percent.
(k) Signature
of the individual completing the report.
(4) The monthly report and all landing fees
due shall be sent to the Department on or before the 20th of each month for the
preceding calendar month. Landing fees are delinquent if not received or
postmarked within 20 days after the end of the calendar month. A penalty charge
of $5 or five percent of the landing fees due, whichever is larger, shall be
assessed along with a one percent per month interest charge on any delinquent
landing fee payments.
Statutory/Other Authority: SB 247 (2015), ORS
506.036, ORS
506.109, ORS
506.119, ORS
506.129 & ORS
508.530
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
506.109, ORS
506.129, ORS
508.535, ORS
508.505 & ORS
508.550