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Published: March 10, 2009
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In February, 2009, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, Ecotrust, and Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition sponsored a workshop on creating community quota entities (CQEs), in Anchorage Alaska. More than 50 people from Southeast Alaska, Kodiak Island, and other small communities along the Gulf of Alaska attended the workshop.
The CQE program allows coastal communities to boost their economies by gaining back fisheries quotas. Forty-two communities on the Gulf of Alaska, with populations under 1,500, can purchase halibut and blackcod commercial fishing quota, and then lease it to resident fishermen. Twenty CQEs have been set up for 21 communities so far, and they are looking for capital to purchase quota.
At the workshop a NOAA Fisheries Restricted Access Management specialist outlined six steps to make the CQE system work:
(1) form a nonprofit
(2) certify the CQE
(3) transfer quota share by buying it on the market
(4) lease quota to fishermen
(5) file annual reports to NOAA
(6) sell quota share if necessary.
According to Jessica Gharrett, of NOAA Fisheries Restricted Access Management, success will depend on the "imagination and hard work of the communities and the organizations they form to represent them."
For more information see http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map/workshops/2009/cqe/index.html.
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Published: March 10, 2009
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EmailIn February, 2009, the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, Ecotrust, and Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition sponsored a workshop on creating community quota entities (CQEs), in Anchorage Alaska. More than 50 people from Southeast Alaska, Kodiak Island, and other small communities along the Gulf of Alaska attended the workshop.
The CQE program allows coastal communities to boost their economies by gaining back fisheries quotas. Forty-two communities on the Gulf of Alaska, with populations under 1,500, can purchase halibut and blackcod commercial fishing quota, and then lease it to resident fishermen. Twenty CQEs have been set up for 21 communities so far, and they are looking for capital to purchase quota.
At the workshop a NOAA Fisheries Restricted Access Management specialist outlined six steps to make the CQE system work:
(1) form a nonprofit
(2) certify the CQE
(3) transfer quota share by buying it on the market
(4) lease quota to fishermen
(5) file annual reports to NOAA
(6) sell quota share if necessary.
According to Jessica Gharrett, of NOAA Fisheries Restricted Access Management, success will depend on the "imagination and hard work of the communities and the organizations they form to represent them."
For more information see http://seagrant.uaf.edu/map/workshops/2009/cqe/index.html.
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