Specifications include, but are not limited to: REQUIREMENTS FOR CONTRACTED VESSEL: A. Vessel must be minimum 100’ LOA and be equipped with deck rigging for safe deployment, towing, and recovery of two 8' survey dredges (at times, simultaneously). B. Vessel must provide winches and wire (trawl warp) for deployment, plus spare parts and tools for repair of dredges. Winches, and wire must be in good operating condition at start of survey. All vessel transducers must be in properly maintained working order prior to departure of the survey. G. Vessel must provide minimum 400 square feet of clear exterior deck space for handling dredges and sampling dredge contents. H. Vessel must provide stove, oven, sink, galley table, and all materials and equipment necessary for daily meal preparation, cooking, and clean up. Vessel must provide refrigerated storage space sufficient to maintain food for all onboard personnel for the duration of the survey. I. Vessel must provide water storage and/or seawater conversion system sufficient to meet fresh water needs including drinking, galley cleaning, showers, and laundry for all onboard personnel for the duration of the survey. J. Vessel must provide quarters/sleeping space for up to 4 ADF&G staff and/or collaborators in addition to quarters/sleeping space for vessel captain and crew. K. Vessel must provide safety equipment including: USCG approved first-aid kit; USCG approved EPIRB; USCG approved fire-fighting equipment appropriate for size and type of vessel; USCG approved life rafts of sufficient capacity for all personnel aboard vessel; USCG approved survival suits of appropriate sizes for all personnel aboard vessel. REQUIREMENTS FOR VESSEL CREW: A. Crew to consist of a USGC licensed captain with at least 5 seasons of scallop fishing experience in Alaska waters and a minimum of 3 crew with scallop fishing experience. One crewmember must be an engineer with a minimum of 5 years experience aboard scallop fishing vessels and fully knowledgeable of the chartered vessel and equipment. Vessel crew will perform cooking and cleaning duties in addition to operating the vessel and assisting with scientific sampling as requested by ADF&G staff. B. Vessel captain or crew member will be required to operate vessel at all times during survey and communicate with ADF&G personnel regarding speed, course, and position when towing scallop dredges. C. Vessel crew will be required to assist ADF&G staff with sampling duties including: deployment, towing, and retrieval of scallop dredges; sorting. measuring, and weighing dredge contents; shucking sampled scallops; maintenance/repair of dredges and related deck equipment D. The State reserves the right to require replacement of any vessel crewmember. If the vessel operates shorthanded due to replacement or illness of a vessel crewmember for longer than 24 hours, the State may deduct from the charter rate an amount equal to the missing crewman’s wages and related direct cost of employment (i.e., social security tax, unemployment insurance, etc.). Any cost for replacing a vessel crewmember will be borne by the contractor. The contractor will be responsible for payment of crewmember wages. The State will be responsible for payment of daily charter rates only, and will not reimburse the contractor for vessel crew wages. There shall be no alcohol or controlled substances aboard the vessel during this charter period.
