Attachment_9_-_Glossary.pdf

Attachment 9

GLOSSARY

Briefing A returning Observer is ‘briefed’ on any changes that the program has made during their absence or as required by the program prior to being deployed.

Bycatch The unintentional taking of non-targeted species that is composed of a variety of marine life – fish, mammals, turtles, and birds.

Contractor’s Quality

Assurance Plan (QAP)

The contractor’s plan and systematic description of the activities it will perform to achieve a successful outcome and provide the quality standards the government expects in the performance of its services.

Debriefing Final review process of an Observer at the conclusion of a deployment.

Experienced Fishery

Observer

An Observer who has successfully completed 30 sampling days or 3 trips while serving as an Observer in the program they are currently serving in or from a similar observer program.

Experienced PROP Observer

Observer Program Manager

(TASK ORDER MANAGER)

An Observer who has completed a season as an observer in the PROP.

A NMFS employee that is responsible for oversight of the

Observer program.

New Observer An Observer who has successfully completed observer training, but has no previous observer experience.

NMFS NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Observer Candidate An individual selected by the Observer Contractor in accordance with the specified qualifications that will initiate appropriate training and approval to become a New

Observer.

Observer Coverage The numbers of days Observers are deployed with assigned vessels in a particular fishery multiplied by a unit of total effort in the fishery (often the number fishing days in the season or total landed catch is used) as a percentage measurement.

Observer Program and

Biological Sampling Manual

These manuals are program specific (manuals available online at the NMFS website) and detail data collection and sampling procedures relative to that program.

Observer Sea Day Any day an Observer leaves port, is out at sea, or returns to port regardless of time of day.

Observer Training Day For the purposes of compensation, any day an Observer is engaged in training, briefing, or debriefing. Observers will be compensated for hours actually worked.

Probationary Observer Any observer that has not satisfactorily completed at least

30 sea days or 3 trips as determined by the specific program or has submitted data of poor quality.

Project Manager Responsible person for managing personnel resources and other items specified in this contract.

Quality Assurance (QA) Quality Assurance is all the planned and systematic activities implemented within the quality system to provide confidence that the project will satisfy the relevant quality standards.

Quality Assurance

Surveillance Plan (QASP)

Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan is the Government’s process that will be used to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It describes the roles and responsibility and methodology used to monitor the Contractor’s performance in meeting the performance measures and standards under the contract.

Quality Control (QC) Quality control is the monitoring of specific project results to determine if they comply with relevant quality standards, and eliminating causes of unsatisfactory results.

Retained Observer An Observer who is employed by the current contractor, is currently working in the program specified in the current contract and is available and being assigned work.

Sea Day Any day that an Observer is deployed on a vessel at sea

(not at the dock).

Training One to three week period of education for Observer

Candidate to become a New Observer.

US Exclusive Economic Zone The waters governed seaward 3 miles out to 200 miles off the United States coast.