Community-based Sectors for the New England Groundfish Fishery

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Tri-State Sector Erik Brazer Requests • Implementation in 2008 • Allocation of all GF species, monkfish, skates and dogfish (29 stocks) • Full retention of legal size groundfish, monkfish, skates, and dogfish • Will use monthly quotas • 2,000 pounds minimum allocation for every stock (allow for incidental catch); • Trading quota between sectors if both sectors have an allocation and if it would not result in violating the 20% cap; • Qualifying / Baseline years of 1996-2006?? • If NMFS or the NEFMC regulatory bureaucracy prevents timely implementation, existing sectors will be allowed to fish under the previous year's operations plan and allocations. • “Future catch histories associated with the sector are proposed to remain constant regardless of whether the vessels land the fish; and • sectors will be credited with their actual TAC percentage, instead of actual percentage of TAC achieved • “Sectors will be credited with the maximum TAC amount (up to 20%), rather than the actual amount of fish caught. • Increasing observer coverage, • Moving into electronic catch reporting • Will comply w/ the requirement for 20 day spawning block out of the fishery between March and May and any spawning closures • Not limited to fishing in any areas Requested Exemptions • paper reporting; • DAS; • seasonal, rolling, habitat (anything less than level 3) and mortality closures; • minimum fish sizes • trip limits; • non-spawning blocks • hook number and size, gillnet number and mesh size, trawl mesh size and shape Necessary Policy Changes • qualifying baseline years; • trading quota between sectors; • future catch history remain constant regardless of actual catch; • Increasing observer coverage, • Moving into electronic catch reporting Members: List of 51 vessels (15 trawl, 4 hook, 1 scottish seine, 31 gillnet) 66
Gloucester Fixed Gear Sector Peter Libro Reason for Existence: • Securing a placeholder Requests: • Allocation of GOM cod and CC/GOM YT • DAS for all other stocks, including monkfish and skates • 7% - 20% of the TAC Requested Exemptions • GOM differential DAS counting • Seasonal rolling closures • GOM cod trip limits • CC/ GOM YT trip limits Members • Small to medium sized day and trip gillnet and hook vessels that fish in the GOM • 10-60 vessels Gloucester / Boston GOM and GB Trawl Sector Proposal Enzo Russo Reason for Existence: • Securing a placeholder Requests: • Allocation of GOM cod, GB cod and CC/GOM YT • DAS for all other stocks, including monkfish and skates • 7% - 20% of the TAC Requested Exemptions • GOM differential DAS counting • Seasonal rolling closures • GOM cod trip limits • GOM YT trip limits Members • 55 - 95 ft trawl vessels that fish in the GOM and GB • 10-60 vessels 67
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Community-based Sectors for the New
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Table of Contents Executive Summary
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Community leaders in Portland and P
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of community-based permit banks. Th
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1.0 Introduction The groundfish fis
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Although Amendment 13 effectively e
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somewhat vague on how the allocatio
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2.2 Experience with Existing Sector
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Page 37 and 38: Table 9d: Portland Sector B Revenue
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Page 55 and 56: References Alexander, Yvette 2006.M
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Page 59 and 60: Appendix B: Groundfish Price Model
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Page 67: Reasons for Existence: 1. end overf
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Page 73 and 74: Point Judith / Southern New England
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