2025-11-11T11:28:18-08:00 2024-12-31 911665325 WGN PS 200 W Mercer Street Suite 310 Seattle WA 98119 990 2024-01-01 911621700 United Catcher Boats UNIT 2062822599 4005 - 20th Avenue West 116 Seattle WA 98199 Andrea Keikkala Executive Direc 2025-11-10 true true Kalin Fohn P01488788 2062130010 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 4005 - 20th Avenue West 116 Seattle WA 98199 942094 false X http://www.ucba.org/ X 1993 WA The organization's primary exempt function is to foster and promote the interest of owners and operators of commercial fishing vessels that harvest fish in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and off the Pacific Coast. 17 17 4 0 0 1619746 928152 43 13942 0 1619789 942094 20775 25651 0 681278 574584 0 0 1059840 402627 1761893 1002862 -142104 -60768 369938 282019 8477 8743 361461 273276 The organization's primary exempt function is to foster and promote the interest of owners and operators of commercial fishing vessels that harvest fish in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and off the Pacific Coast. false false 1. We advocate fishery policy positions of the association. This includes presenting the association's positions before groups such as the North Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Pacific Fishery Management Council, the Alaska Board of Fisheries, the Alaska State Legislature and the US Congress. This entails developing policy positions supported by the association, writing position papers and comments on government proposed actions affecting the management of fisheries important to United Catcher Boat members, including the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska groundfish and crab fisheries.2. We participate in a wide variety of industry/government meetings which affect the management of the fisheries in which United Catcher Boat members participate. This includes attending six to ten lengthy meetings per year. Usually the Executive Director and the Technical Advisor and a few active Board of Directors attend these public meetings. Most meetings occur within the State of Alaska. The association typically will present written and oral testimony during the public hearing portion of these meetings.3. We participate in the development of federal and state legislation that affects the management of the fisheries in which United Catcher Boat members participate. This includes working with key legislative members and staff, reviewing draft committee bills, presenting written comments and oral public testimony to various legislative committees. One key piece of legislation is the reauthorization of the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act, (occurs every three years), before the US Congress. This activity is conducted primarily by the association's Executive Director and a few more active Board of Directors. Association positions on legislation occurs at the monthly Board of Directors meetings and at the annual membership meeting.4. We provide association members with information on various fisheries throughout the year as the fisheries are conducted. This information originates from primarily the National Marine Fisheries Service. The association obtains fishery statistics from the government and distributes this information, as well as an analysis of this information, to its members. Generally, this information includes the amount of fish taken in a fishery, where the fishery occurs, and the rates of by catch (undesirable species) of various participants. This is public information and the association assists the government in presenting such information to the fleet. The medium for conveying this information includes weekly catch reports, newsletters, faxes and individual phone calls to members. This also includes forecasting fishery closures for members of the association.5. We provide government fisheries managers with information about the association members' vessels. Federal fisheries managers need information in-season to help determine closures of fisheries. This includes catching power, effort and number of vessels per fishery. The association works closely with fisheries managers to assist in the healthy management of the fisheries. This is primarily the work of the Executive Director.6. We assist in government research of fisheries of concern to the association members. This includes review of government research proposals, apprising association members of possible grants and charter opportunities, conducting research, writing and presenting papers at government sponsored workshops and symposiums.7. We provide oversight and support in the administration of annual cooperative fishing agreements our members enter into with each other and other Bering Sea pollock catcher vessel owners. With Congressional passage of the American Fisheries Act in 1998, owners of the 112 vessels that fish for pollock in the Bering Sea can enter into nine fishing cooperatives in order to rationally harvest annual pollock allocations. We assist in the management of the coops' harvest by monitoring each coops' harvest throughout the seasons, track transfers of coop members vessel's allocations among the catcher vessels, and assist in managing the coop's plans for management of bycatch harvests of salmon.8. In 2024 we continued our work to examine the feasibility of electronic monitoring systems for compliance on pollock mid-water trawl catcher vessels delivering to shoreside processing facilities in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. The project is evaluating electronic monitoring for improved data quality and consistency, detection and quantification of groundfish discard events, costs of collection and review of fisheries data. The work was funded with a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. false false false true false false false true false true false false false true false false false false false false false false false false false false true false true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 5 0 true 4 true false false false false true true false false false X 17 17 false false false false true true true true false false false false false true true true true false X United Catcher Boats 2062822599 4005 - 20th Avenue West Suite 116 Seattle WA 98199 Brent Paine Executive Direc 40.00 0.00 X X 261796 0 24541 Susan Zagorski Intercoop Manager 40.00 0.00 130000 0 9860 Andrea Keikkala Executive Direc 6.90 0.00 X X 31250 0 1803 Hunter Berns President 0.20 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Fred Yeck Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Nate Stone VP / Director 0.20 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Caitlin Yeager Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gunnar Ildhuso Jr Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 James Mize Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Marcus Alden Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 George Hall Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Christian Asay Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Elizabeth Reed Treasurer 0.20 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Jerry Downing Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Chris Garbrick Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Anne Vanderhoeven Secretary 0.20 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Tim Cusick Alternates Dire 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Erik Petersen Alternates Dire 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 John Henderschedt Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 Bob Desautel Director 0.20 0.00 X 0 0 0 423046 36204 2 false true false Monument Advocacy 975 F St NW 400 Washington DC 20004 Consulting 128653 1 0 Membership Dues & Assessments 541900 928152 928152 NFWF Grant 541900 928152 13942 13942 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Administrative Support 561000 0 942094 928152 13942 25651 0 0 0 459250 0 69412 5567 6337 34018 0 0 265447 0 0 0 0 0 2950 0 0 25431 35759 0 0 0 0 0 2084 Payroll Processing 13346 Meetings 11785 Telephone 10116 Dues and Subscriptions 7075 28634 1002862 0 0 0 22817 1249 265834 278257 0 73121 2514 0 0 0 0 0 53810 53811 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 8167 0 369938 282019 8167 8170 310 573 8477 8743 X 361461 273276 361461 273276 369938 282019 -60768 -27417 X false false false false false true true 928152 85000 -9672 75328 75328 false true X 12811 12907 -96 40999 40904 95 -1 Credit Cards Payable 157 State Industrial Payable 416 573 Part IV, Line 2b: Explanation of escrow account liability United Catcher Boats maintains a trust account for the benefit of its members. It acts solely as a trustee and does not have a beneficial interest in the funds. true University of Washington PO Box 359505 Seattle WA 98195 943079432 501(c)(3) 15000 0 Global Fish Database 1 0 Grantmaker's Description of How Grants are Used $15,000 donated to the University of Washington was made to support fisheries research. The decision to assist in funding this research was deliberated by the board and documented in the minutes to the board meeting.UCB retains copies of the canceled checks. In addition, it is the practice of the University of Washington to provide contemporaneous written acknowledgment of contributions stating the date of the contributions, the amount, and stating the fair market value of goods or services (if any) received by donors in consideration for their donations. X X false false false Brent Paine Executive Direc 261796 17445 7096 286337 Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 6 The Association has two classes of members - regular members with voting rights, and associate members with no voting rights. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7a Regular Members of the association are voting members with the right to vote for the election of Directors. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 7b Regular Members may be required to approve significant decisions of the Board of Directors. For example, the Board of Directors will not approve any alteration, amendment or repeal of the Bylaws of the Association that would adversely impact the rights of any class of members unless they have first received approval of two-thirds of the members of such class. Form 990, Part VI, Section A, Line 8b During 2024 there were no committees with authority to act on behalf of the governing body. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 11b The executive director reviews the return before filing. Board members receive a copy of the return at the annual directors' meeting. The 2024 return will be emailed to the Board members prior to the annual director's virtual meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a The board reviews and compares similar pay grades in other organizations as a baseline for compensation decisions relative to performance. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15b The process is the same as the process for question 15a. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 Governing documents, policies and financial statements are available upon request. Statement Note 1 Statement Regarding Associate Member Dues__________________________________________Total Associate Member Dues $7,000Salaries and Wages - Directly Connected (16,028)Payroll Taxes (916) Communications (256)Office Supplies ( 75)Utilities ( 68)Depreciation ( 0)Rent (643)Taxes ( 83)Equipment Maintenance & Repair (151)Computer & Office Equipment (101) Website Development ( 0) ______ Net Income(Loss) - Associate Member Dues (11,319) ______ ______