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FWC 2024 Hurricane Impacts – Commercial Fishing 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.Please provide your Saltwater Products (SPL) license number. If you have multiple SPL licenses, please provide all currently active license numbers.
2.Please provide your homeport Florida County location. (Select one)
3.Please select all Florida Counties in which you operate as a commercial fisher. (Select all that apply)
4.Which choice below best describes your commercial fishing operations? (Select one)
5.How much annual gross revenue do you typically make from your commercial fishing operations? (Select one)
6.Please list all species you regularly target and land as a commercial fisher.
7.Did your vessel(s) sustain damage from any 2024 hurricane? Check all that apply.
Hurricane Debby
Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Milton
My vessel(s) sustained repairable damage from this storm.
My vessel(s) sustained damage categorized as a total loss from this storm.
My vessel(s) did not sustain damage from this storm.
8.The storm that caused most damage to my vessel(s) was: (Select one. Skip if you stated your vessel(s) sustained no damage)
9.What type of damage did your vessel(s) sustain? Skip if you stated your vessel(s) sustained no damage.
The following questions are requesting approximate financial losses to date.
10.What is your approximate financial loss to date for the loss of spoiled fishing product, 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.
11.What is your approximate financial loss to date for lost income by not being able to fish, 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.
12.What is your approximate financial loss to date for damaged commercial fishing vessel and fishing gear, 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.
The following questions are requesting total financial losses estimates.
13.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for the loss of spoiled fishing product, 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.
14.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for lost income by not being able to fish, 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.What is your approximate total financial loss expected to be for damaged commercial fishing vessel and fishing gear, 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.
16.Is it feasible for you to relocate your commercial fishing operations to a part of the state that was not impacted by the 2024 hurricanes?
17.When do you foresee your commercial fishing operations returning to normal? (Select one)
18.What challenges are you facing in the recovery process?
19.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.).
20.Please use this area to provide any other information you would like to pass on to FWC regarding fishery disaster relief.