Community-based Sectors for the New England Groundfish Fishery

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used in conjunction with a community-based sector. This idea has not been proposed to date, but the development of one or more Gloucester based sectors creates the opportunity to do so. In sum, although there has not been an explicit program to facilitate development of communitybased sectors, the opportunity exists to do so and a number of them may evolve in the coming years. These community-based sectors can serve dual goals of improving the profitability and safety of groundfish fishermen and also allowing communities to retain or regain their involvement in the groundfish fishery. However, there a number of barriers that are impeding development of community-based sectors and fuller utilization of sector management in general. Listed below are a number of recommendations that may facilitate more effective use of sectors by fishermen and communities. These include actions that could be taken by NMFS independently, regulatory reforms that may be included by the Council in Amendment 16, and creation of new financing program that would require federal legislation: 5.1 Recommendations 1. To facilitate individual permit holders’ evaluation of their decision of whether to join a sector, NMFS should compile the catch histories by fish stock of all permitted groundfish vessels and inform all current permit owners of the process of acquiring their catch history and the specific forms and signatures required for release of their catch history to them and to a sector organizer and or sector manager. 2. The NEFMC should authorize a streamlined process for sector approval that does not require a Council framework action and reduces the burden of documentation and regulatory analysis that must be done by sector organizers. 3. The NEFMC should allow sectors to trade some proportion of their ACE allocations with other sectors within the fishing year to facilitate catch balancing and greater utilization of ACE portfolios. 4. The NEFMC should fix the allocation baseline for determining individual permit holders’ contributions to sector allocations and decide how overall sector allocations are adjusted with movement of individuals in, out and between sectors. Future catch privileges associated with individual permits, whether in the context of sectors or other management systems, should be unaffected by how catch privileges are utilized within sectors. 7. The NEFMC should explicitly authorize community-based sectors to form permit banks that can hold permits and contribute catch history to the sector. This recommendation is not meant to imply that multiple permits from a single vessel could be split. 5. Congress should create financial resources for development of community permit banks through a loan guarantee program or a direct loan program modeled on the industry funded buyback structure. 52
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Page 23 and 24: Table 3a: Port Clyde Sector Revenue
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Page 27 and 28: increased. They also have caught a
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Page 31 and 32: Table 8: Portland Sectors A and B V
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Page 35 and 36: Table 9b: Portland Sector A Revenue
Page 37 and 38: Table 9d: Portland Sector B Revenue
Page 39 and 40: Table 10b: Portland Sector A Revenu
Page 41 and 42: Table 11b: Portland Sector B Specie
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Page 59 and 60: Appendix B: Groundfish Price Model
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Page 67 and 68: Reasons for Existence: 1. end overf
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