Re: IFQ's??
IFQs only work when you have a stable or increasing biomass of fish to work with such as Halibut. You can pretty well count on them being there year after year and allotments can be increased or decreased percentage wise as necesasary. Also they can be fished year round as is the case in Alaska. One of the main reasons for IFQs was to allow little fishermen to catch without endangering their lives and equipment. Prior ot IFQs they were given a three or four day season with no regard to weather conditions. Everyone went lickety split and caught as many as they could in the short period allowed. The commission decided to allocate quotas based on past history and allow the fishermen almost unlimited time to catch their assigned quota.Then they were done for the year. The quotas were transferable and saleable. Incidentally they are now in the process of doing the same with the Charter Operators in Alaska. It will then be impossible to guide for Halibut unless you own a quota. Prices will undoubtedly go up and the big guys will end up owning everything. Why not just start buying existing permits and retire them? The problem I see though is all the Columbia River permits would have to be retired at the same time. The compact allots fish to the commercials based on run size and a few would end up getting to fish until the allotment was reached. Quite a mess we created Huh? [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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