Northwest
VMS - Gear
Declaration Categories
10 – Limited entry fixed gear
20 – Limited entry midwater trawl gear
30 – Limited entry bottom trawl gear
41 – Pink shrimp / Ridgeback prawn trawl gear
42 – California halibut trawl gear
43 – Sea cucumber trawl gear
50 – Tribal trawl gear
60 – Spot & Ridgeback prawn non-trawl gear
61 – Crab or Lobster gear
62 – Pacific Halibut gear
63 – Salmon troll gear
64 – California Halibut gear
65 – California Sheephead gear
66 – Gear used to take species under the Highly
Migratory Species FMP
67 – Gear used to take Coastal Pelagic species
68 – Gear used to take species in the California
gillnet complex
69 – A gear type that is not listed above