A state panel has completed its performance review of Community Development Quota organizations, and finds that each of the six group has "maintained or improved its overall performance."
What this means, we expect, is that no group will gain or lose lucrative catch quota.
Click here to see the final reports and cover letters the state sent to each group.
For background, see our December post about the CDQ performance review.
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I see Wes's previous blog of Dec 17 is still drawing good comments about this whole mess.
http://deckboss.blogspot.com/2012/12/were-all-doing-great.html
Apparently WACDA is self governing, and makes their own rules. A case of the Fox guarding the henhouse. The state review looks like nothing more than a rubber stamp because no real oversight was ever mandated by congress. It's time for congress to get it right. Don Young- where are you?
Don Young won't touch the CDQs. With their billions, CDQs have grown too powerful. That's why the State gave them a rubber stamp with the word "Great" on their reviews.
Alaskans will have to get another Congressman interested in this issue like McKasill and 8-A contracting. It can be done.
I love me them CDQ's. They are a true beacon of light for Alaska's future in bringing jobs and ownership home. Whoever created CDQs were geniuses because 100% of the fish would have gone to non-Alaskan's.
It's a joke that APICDA would not weigh the socioeconomic conditions. The CDQ allocations will get fixed. Why give lots to a few at the expense of thousands.
Why give any away to anybody? The people of the United States of America owns all of the resources and we have the right to demand changes to any give-away of that which belongs to the people.
A population in Western Alaska is losing their tradition and culture as a result of resource extraction and that wasn't the deal that the people asked for. A handful of greedy men manipulated their ignorance. That's oppressive.
The Greedy, and the Needy,could get together, and smoke Weedy.
If the salmon runs are wiped out, and there are no fish to strip. At least we'd have Smoked Fishermen.
Qaaq on!
The state is playing safe by giving all the CDQ reviews the "Great" stamp. It's probably "Great" that you are the ones screwing the people for a change! Millions of dollars backing up crooks is a force to avoid for those who value their jobs over a healthy, productive, fair and just state.
First off Don young, in the Coast Guard Bill, essentially stopped any future oversight of the CDQ's.
Second, did anyone really expect a different outcome? Self-regulation is an oxymoron. As long as pollock continues to provide, the CDQ's are in perpetual motion and untouchable.
The Young touch can be unraveled by Congress. It appears that the Alaskans he supposedly loves so much can eat chicken as far as he is concerned.
I'm most certain that there are ethical people paying attention to this Western Alaska CDQ scam. Thousands of poor people who are wards of the federal government because they are Alaska's aboriginal natives, depend on the Great White Father to back them up against the crooks destroying their culture and tradition of living off the salmon. Their rights to liberty and justice are being ignored.
CDQ scam. The managers only talk to those who's heads are totally up their butts with their hand out asking for a few crumbs while they pump millions and millions back into the sea to fish the IFQs with their LLCs. Burying the peoples HOPE money in a paper trail so dense there is no light shining through.
It doesn't take a Rock Scientist to see what is going on.
The web is tightening up. Direct lines are being cut off. That will leave the idiots floundering and in the end, millions will be lost.
Will Uncle Sam bail them out?
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