If you are not already a FACTS participant and are interested in using the program for your commercial harvest reporting please
sign up online, or contact Meredith Jones at FisheriesEReporting.DNR@maryland.gov or 410-260-8301. This is a series of instructional videos to provide an additional resource to review the many different features the FACTS system offers for customizing your account. As additional authorization types are added to the program, new videos will be made available on this website.
1. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video: Welcome to FACTSTM
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What’s E-Reporting? An introduction to how E-Reporting with FACTSTM works, this video covers the basics for electronic reporting and the special FACTSTM account features. Tips include: Searching your Trip History, reading Messages, reviewing Quota Transfers and Updates, and viewing Documents in your account.
2. E-Reporting with FACTS Training Video:
Best Reporting Practices
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Learn about the requirements for starting and ending a trip in FACTS. This video was developed for the Charter Pilot, but the information provided applies to all of the pilot programs.
Hailing Cycle tips include: Start your trip before you leave the dock, how to revise a trip in real-time, and make sure you send your End Hail before you land.
Narration by Stephanie Richards, Graphics and Editing by Stephen Badger
3. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Setting My Shellfish Harvester Account Preferences
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See how to make the reporting process quicker and easier. This video shows you how to customize your FACTS account preferences for the way you harvest. Tips include: Saving frequently used NOAA Codes, Gear Types, Landing Locations, and your preferred Dealers.
4. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Starting and Ending an Oyster Trip with FACTS
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Ready to take a shellfish trip with FACTS? Learn how to send Start and End Hails for your trip activity by watching this E-Reporting with FACTS training video. Tips include: Entering your Estimated Landing Time & Location, Revising your Trip Hail, using the map to select a bar/point, and completing Dealer Buy Tickets.
5. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Setting Charter Account Preferences
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See how to make the reporting process quicker and easier. This video shows you how to customize your FACTS account preferences for the way you harvest. Tips include: Adding Operators to your Vessel(s), setting Vessel Preferences, Gear Types, Landing Locations, and Commonly Caught Species.
6. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Starting and Ending a Charter Trip in FACTS
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Ready to take a charter trip with FACTS? Learn how to send Start and End Hails for your trip activity by watching this E-Reporting with FACTS training video. Tips include: Entering your Estimated Landing Time & Location, Revising your Trip Hail, entering harvest information, and taking more than one trip a day.
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Want to save time? This E-Reporting with FACTSTM video will show you how to customize your account preferences for the way you harvest Blue Crab and Finfish. Tips include: Saving your Contact Information, Vessels, Landing Locations, Gear Types, and Commonly Caught Species.
8. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Starting and Ending a Blue Crab Trip
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Ready to go harvesting? Review how to send Start and End Hails for your Blue Crab harvest activity by watching this E-Reporting with FACTSTM training video. Tips include: Entering your Estimated Landing Time & Location, Revising your hail, accurate crew counts, entering harvest information, and catch disposition.
9. E-Reporting with FACTSTM Training Video:
Starting and Ending a Finfish Trip
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Ready to go finfishing? Review how to send Start and End Hails for your Finifsh harvest activity by watching this E-Reporting with FACTSTM training video. Tips include: Entering your Estimated Landing Time & Location, Revising your hail, using the Commonly Caught Species feature, and catch disposition.
