Comments on: Insightful Articles on New England Sectors http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/2009/11/04/insightful-articles-on-new-england-sectors/ Innovating for healthy oceans Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:02:58 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mvanpatten http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/2009/11/04/insightful-articles-on-new-england-sectors/comment-page-1/#comment-135 mvanpatten Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:38:17 +0000 http://blogs.edf.org/edfish/?p=491#comment-135 I understand the concerns and the challenges that the fishing community is feeling and going to experience regarding migrating from a DAS to quota system and clearly a catch share based fishery is no silver bullet, however consider the alternative and how the New England fishery has seen its way of living diminshed under the current DAS system. If properly constructed and with the help of entities, such as CQE's (Cape Cod Fisheries Trust), this doesnt signal the end of an era but the beginning of a rebuilding process and a sustainable industry. My organization, Nexii Inc. www.nexii.com, plans to support this industry in this crossover by helping CQE's and Fishery Associations raise capital to purchase quota and in the development of a functional electronic catch shares transactions platform where sector heads can effectively manage the transfer of quota, track transfers,track TAC and other key data and start to create a historical record of all transactions and activity within each sector and across various fisheries throughout the U.S. This is to be launched in May of 2010. I understand the concerns and the challenges that the fishing community is feeling and going to experience regarding migrating from a DAS to quota system and clearly a catch share based fishery is no silver bullet, however consider the alternative and how the New England fishery has seen its way of living diminshed under the current DAS system.

If properly constructed and with the help of entities, such as CQE's (Cape Cod Fisheries Trust), this doesnt signal the end of an era but the beginning of a rebuilding process and a sustainable industry. My organization, Nexii Inc. http://www.nexii.com, plans to support this industry in this crossover by helping CQE's and Fishery Associations raise capital to purchase quota and in the development of a functional electronic catch shares transactions platform where sector heads can effectively manage the transfer of quota, track transfers,track TAC and other key data and start to create a historical record of all transactions and activity within each sector and across various fisheries throughout the U.S. This is to be launched in May of 2010.

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