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NOAA Fisheries Disclaimer:
The NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) does not approve, recommend or endorse any proprietary product or material mentioned in ARC's website (i.e. pictures, logos, references, ect.).No reference shall be made to NOAA Fisheries, or to the NOAA Fisheries Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-524 publication furnished by NOAA Fisheries, in any advertising or sales promotion which would indicate or imply that NOAA Fisheries approves, recommends or endorses any proprietary product or material herein or which has as its purpose any intent to cause or indirectly cause the advertised product to be used or purchased because of NOAA Fisheries publication.
ARC's Disclaimer:
Aquatic Release Conservation's (ARC) intention in using any NOAA Fisheries logos in its website, packaging or promotion are directly for the sole purpose of giving credit to the co-development and co-design of many of the careful handling and release equipment that were co-developed in the 2001-2003 NED experimental design fishery as well as the technology transfers to other fisheries and international fisheries partners.Any federal or state logos, pictures or statements in ARC's website will be accompanied by the phrase 'working in cooperation and as fisheries partners with' and are not intended to imply endorsement for any of ARC's product in any manner whatsoever.
ARC has given permission to all individual fishery's participants managed by NOAA Fisheries and under a FMP to make, construct, use, and have on board any and all of its careful handling and release equipment, provided however that the individual makes, constructs, uses, and has on board this equipment for its own individual use and does not reproduce ARC's products in any quantities for resale or gifts to any other fishery participants; pursuant to the U.S. and international Patents that ARC has on its products that are protected under U.S. Patent laws.
There is alternative handling and release equipment that meets the minimal design specifications that can be used by participants in some specific fisheries.The specifications of this equipment can be found in 50 CFR Parts 223 and 635 Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Pelagic Longline Fishery; Final Rule and in the NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-524.
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