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HONOLULU — The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced last week that the requirement for the Hawai‘i and American Samoa pelagic longline fisheries to electronically report their catch will be effective Sept. 7, 2021. This regulation is intended to reduce human error, improve data...

![A NMFS scientist (left) tests an electronic reporting tablet’s connection to a satellite-linked vessel monitoring system. The council hired Vietnamese-speaker Kim-Dung Nguyen (right) to support NMFS’s outreach to Vietnamese-American longline fishermen on the tablets before the mandatory use requirement takes effect Sept. 7, 2021. [photos: NMFS] A NMFS scientist (left) and Kim-Dung Nguyen (right)](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/composit_photo_fisheries.jpg?itok=Yk-gbKcJ)