Kim, CHIRP 'appears' to be wholly directed to reactive reporting, their forms do not seem to allow for proactive prevention of problems that may arise in the future. The impression is that CHIRP is pretty much an exclusively big-ship thing.
The seemingly unregulated proliferation of fishing gear, particularly the poorly constructed gear that is begging for an incident, does urgently need to be addressed but if CHIRP is the direction to go, than it must be made accessible to small boat reports.
In the humble opinion of this ex Big Ship man, who is now a small boat sailor and who has already been deterred by the CHIRP forms.