802-876-6622

Calling me all times of day and night.

Calls every day regardless of telling them to stop calling three times this week

Called and when i answered no one spoke,

Called it back and its some survey about coastal fisheries in Vermont. I live in Hawaii.

Do not call me again as we are on the Do Not Call List

keeps callsing

Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS)

The Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Program team provides essential marine recreational fisheries information to government, scientists, and the public. Since 1979, we have conducted the annual Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistics Survey (MRFSS).

The purpose of this national survey is to provide a reliable database for estimating the impact of recreational fishing on marine resources.

This impact can be quite large for many recreationally fished species. There are nearly 17 million recreational marine anglers. In 1997, anglers made approximately 68 million marine fishing trips to the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts. The estimated marine recreational finfish catch was 366 million fish, more than 50% of which was released alive.

Thanks to the consistent cooperation of conservation minded anglers, the MRFSS now encompasses nearly 30 years of continuous and standardized data, and represents the most scientifically credible and consistent picture of marine recreational catch, effort, and participation in the world.

Get this call once a day

Right. They call me repeatedly and at 8:45 on a Sunday night. Absolutely ridiculous and sounds like a scam.   Bunch of BS if you ask me.

Told me they were from dept. of commerce and exempt from do not call, told them I didn't care and don't do surveys.

from the website of NOAA
Coastal Household Telephone Survey
On the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts, the Coastal Household Telephone Survey (CHTS) collects fishing effort data from shore and private boat anglers. Since the majority of shore and private boat fishing trips are taken by individuals who live in coastal areas, the CHTS is limited to households located in coastal counties. Correction factors derived from the catch survey (APAIS) are used to account for trips taken by non-coastal resident and out-of-state anglers, as well as anglers who live in households without telephones.

Data collection occurs during a two-week period at the end of each two-month sample period (or "wave"). This regional annual schedule shown below has been maintained since the survey inception in 1979 although not all states, or commonwealths, have been surveyed in all years (see Coverage and Program Evolution for details).

Region    Schedule
Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Coast of Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico    January - December (Waves 1-6)
Atlantic Coast North of Florida (excluding Maine & New Hampshire)    March - December (Waves 2-6)
Maine, New Hampshire    May - October (Waves 3-5)
Pacific Coast    Survey not conducted
Texas, Alaska    Survey not conducted
The CHTS utilizes a computer-assisted, random digit dialing (RDD) approach to contact full-time residential households. Contacted households are screened to determine if any household members participated in marine recreational fishing during the previous two months, and each active angler is asked to recall the number of saltwater fishing trips that were taken during the wave, as well as provide details about each trip. Institutional housing, businesses, wireless phones, and pay phones are excluded from the survey. Within each state, sample is allocated among coastal counties in proportion to household populations.

Data from the CHTS are used to estimate the average number of trips per household for each coastal county. These estimates are then expanded by the county household population to estimate total trips. County estimates are summed and then expanded by APAIS adjustment factors to produce state-level effort estimates. All estimates are computed by fishing mode, then all mode-level estimates are aggregated to obtain the total statewide estimates.

this number call me for a survey about fishing

Called 5 minutes ago without voicemail. Blocked number.

Called at 8:30 pm on Sat, Dec 26th.  Had to say hello twice before someone spoke.  It sounded like a friendly young lady.  She asked I'd anyone in the household fished.  I answered no and she asked "Have they reached me in xxx county" (my county in FL).  I didn't know what she meant so just answered no.  She said thank you and hung up.  Very odd.  It us a Vermont #, not sure why they are calling FL at 8:30 Saturday night.

Blank calls

Tonight is the 2nd evening this number has called. It originates from "Essex Junction, NJ" and a woman named "Claire" called. As with all other calls, no one answered until I said "hello" 2 times. Once, they stated that they were from a survey company, tonight they stated they were from a governmental something or other. I am so angry as I asked after the 1st call to never call me again. Told them the same this time, but not nicely, and told them they were being reported as I was on a Do Not Call List. She would not acknowledge that they wouldn't call again.

Just block them.

Who are these idiots?  Phoned the number and it states National Marine Survey costal research and ICS International. Anyone with some intelligence would be able to work out from our telephone code that we are no where near the coast!!
Either they are as thick as horse [***] or the phone number showing is not really National Marine

called our fax line...

Called today and would not speak! What a loser. I blocked the call. Why would someone from Vermont call long distance and hang up?! I blocked the number. Good riddance.

There are no coastal fisheries in VT. It's the only New England state that doesn't even have a coast!

I keep getting these calls everday and im only 13 so i never answer my mom got a call from the same people i looked up the area code and it said vermont then i looked upt the whole number and its says something about fish surveys