Proposed Remote Inspection Credits: What Mixed Fleets Can Budget
The Coast Guard's draft SIP guidance points to separate inspection-budget scenarios by vessel class, performance, and OCMI judgment.
Scallop boats could stop counting transit as fishing time
A proposed six-vessel scallop permit would test whether joined sensor records can move days-at-sea accounting from a VMS line to actual dredge activity.
At anchor, the wind forecast can start the standby clock
A 2025 Los Angeles–Long Beach amendment shows how adding forecasts and gusts changes a readiness trigger. This historical comparison is not current navigation guidance.
Archaeological stop-work survived the loss of its radius and deadline
The 2025 reversal of an archaeological-resources rule left a discovery duty in place while removing two numerical instructions. That is a work-plan problem as well as a legal change.
Buying marine AI means choosing which job gets better
A drivetrain demonstration, a reported navigation pilot and a feature-led pricing strategy point to different questions for the marine technology buyer.
Northern monkfish quota arithmetic is 134 tonnes apart
The published total and the published subtraction disagree. The lower result is a reproducible inference, not an agency correction.
Skipping NOAA's ocean-observing request did not bar a later bid
A closed 2025 ocean-observing request shows why a marine vendor should decide what a response buys before assembling ten pages of commercial disclosure.
Matching AIS fields do not independently verify a vessel
Matching fields from one transmitter can make a vessel record look corroborated. The identity check needs evidence from outside the broadcast.
A shrimp permit can hold value while the boat loses money
The proposed Gulf shrimp moratorium extension puts a transferable permit market beside weak vessel economics. A buyer needs to evaluate both.
A turtle survey's stop threshold has conflicting counting periods
A Texas survey permit gives conflicting periods for turtle-take limits. Separate controls still govern the next net set, sampling locations and programme suspension.