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Alaska commercial fishing news and notes
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- Deckboss
- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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- Washington watch
- Surprise appointments to the North Pacific Council
- Mary Peltola blasts off on fish
- Salmon notes
- USDA buys $6.4M in pollock products from Trident
- Bringing back crab
- USDA buys $11M in canned pinks from Silver Bay
- $124M in disaster relief set for Alaska, elsewhere
- The first million
- Commissioner clarifies status of fishing regulations
- Salmon outlook
- The advent of the charter halibut stamp
- F/V Arctic Sea remains aground at St. George Island
- Station Papa out?
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4 comments:
How can commercial fishermen compete with the new charter entity (RQE) to purchase 2C or 3A halibut quota? Charters collect this new mandatory tax (halibut stamp) for the RQE from their customers, while commercial fishermen must secure funding through bank loans or personal savings. Additionally, charters don't pay any NOAA tax that helps fund RAM, whereas commercial fishermen pay observer fees, a 3% tax, and an additional 3% processor tax that is ultimately passed on to them. The charter fleet should have their own quota issued based on the The International Pacific Halibut Commissions (IPHC) charter allocation, which could then be divided among the charter halibut permits (CHP). How can charters catch as much halibut as allowed with essentially no seasonal limit when commercial fishermen can only exceed their quota by 10% (with that 10% being deducted the following year)? This is not how the original IFQ program was intended, as it was not designed for another user group to take halibut quota for their needs
It is past time for the Charter Fleet to pay for Management of the Charter fisheries. A lot of time and money is spent at the Council, IPHC and ADFG to manage the Charter Fleet and they pay very Little.
cry me a river, you dummies forced the charter fleet into your program, gave them a crappy allocation and now with a willing buyer and a willing seller, they are buying enough allocation to provide the public adequate access to resource that was given to original participants.
Forced? You are using the same federal resource
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