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FWC 2024 Hurricane Impacts – Bait and Tackle Retail Fishery Survey

This survey will assist FWC in providing preliminary fishery damage details and statistics to NOAA Fisheries for the potential disaster declaration in response to the 2024 hurricane season. Your responses should pertain to losses and damages from Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton. Please complete the survey as soon as possible, even if you did not sustain fishery-related damages. If you have questions, please contact us at HurricaneRelief@MyFWC.com.
1.If applicable, please provide your Retail Central (RC) license number. If you have multiple RC licenses, please provide all currently active license numbers.
2.Please provide your business’s Florida County location. If your business has locations in multiple Florida Counties, select all that apply.
3.Which choice below best describes your revenue generated from your bait and tackle operations? (Select one)
4.How much annual gross revenue do you typically make from your commercial fishery wholesale operations? (Select one)
5.Did your bait and tackle business sustain infrastructure damage from any 2024 hurricane? Check all that apply.
6.Please provide a brief description of the infrastructure damage sustained for each 2024 hurricane. Skip if you stated your business sustained no infrastructure damage from a 2024 hurricane.
7.Approximately how much is the cost to repair the damaged infrastructure from each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no damage was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If damages cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total loss in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
8.Approximately how long do you expect it will take to repair the damaged infrastructure? Skip if you stated your business sustained no infrastructure damage from a 2024 hurricane. (Select one)
The following questions are requesting approximate financial losses to date.
9.What is your approximate financial loss to date for the loss of fishing-related inventory, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total loss in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
10.What is your approximate financial loss to date for damaged business infrastructure, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total damages in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
11.What is your approximate financial loss to date for lost income while operations were closed, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total loss in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
The following questions are requesting total financial losses estimates.
12.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for the loss of fishing-related inventory, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total loss in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
13.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for damaged business infrastructure, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total damages in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
14.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for lost income while operations were closed, due to each of the 2024 hurricanes? If no loss was inflicted from a storm, please place $0 for that storm. If losses cannot be distinguished between storms, please estimate the total loss in the Combined 2024 Hurricanes option.
15.When do you foresee your commercial operations returning to normal? (Select one)
16.What challenges are you facing in the recovery process?
17.What type of assistance would be the most helpful in the recovery process? (e.g., no-interest loans, business grants, assistance repairing or replacing fishing access points such as ramps and docks, etc.).
18.Please use this area to provide any other information you would like to pass on to FWC regarding fishery disaster relief.