HitchAI
Request access
Commerce · President's Budget PB2027

Foreign Fishing Observer

Commerce·Foreign Fishing Observer Fund·CJ p. 347
FY2027 Request
—
Parsed · CJ — verify
Parsed · verify

This figure was parsed from Commerce's FY2027 Congressional Justification, not from a standard budget exhibit. It is approximate and it is not summable with other lines. It is published so you can check it: the citation below names the exact page it was read off. Where a dollar figure matters, verify it there before using it.

The FY2027 President's Budget requests — for Foreign Fishing Observer, within Commerce's Foreign Fishing Observer Fund account.

Authoritative context

Commerce discretionary budget authority

FY2027 request$7.00B
FY2026$11.90B
Change▼ 41%

From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Commerce's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.

In the agency's own words

What this funds

For FY 2027, NMFS requests a total of $0 for this fund. The goals of this fund are to provide 100 percent observer coverage aboard foreign vessels fishing within the U.S. EEZ; increase compliance with fishery regulations and requirements; support balanced conservation and management measures to achieve and maintain the optimum use of living marine resources; collect data to determine foreign compliance with fishery regulations and the status of fish stocks within the U.S. EEZ; and administer the base and supplemental observer programs in a cost-effective manner. The Foreign Fishing Observer Fund is financed through fees collected from owners and operators of foreign fishing vessels fishing within the U.S. EEZ (such fishing requires a permit issued under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act). The fund is used by NOAA to pay salaries, administrative costs, data editing and entry, and other costs incurred in placing ' Monitor foreign fishing for compliance with U.S. fishing regulations The observer program is conducted primarily through contracts with the private sector. This includes longline vessels fishing in the Atlantic billfish and shark fishery and other foreign vessels fishing in the EEZ. NOAA places these observers aboard foreign fishing vessels to monitor compliance with U.S. fishery laws and to collect fishery management data. Amounts available in the fund can be disbursed only to the extent and in amounts provided in appropriation acts. In FY 1985, Congress approved the establishment of a supplemental observer program. The program provided that foreign vessels without federally funded observers are required to obtain the services of private contractors certified by the Secretary of Commerce.

Extracted from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, p. 347. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

Ask Hitch

Ask this budget line

Answers come from the figures on this page and nothing else. These dollars are parsed from Commerce's Congressional Justification and are approximate — confirm anything that matters against the cited page.

H
Questions this page can answer
What does Foreign Fishing Observer fund?How has the funding changed year over year?How does this sit inside Commerce's discretionary budget?Where can I verify this figure?
Sign in →

This page carries the budget justification only. Contract obligations live at hitchintel.com/vendors; open solicitations at hitchintel.com/opportunities.