{"id":2744,"date":"2011-04-25T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2011-04-25T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T17:14:48","slug":"new-england-groundfish-fishermen-should-benefit-from-unused-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/04\/25\/new-england-groundfish-fishermen-should-benefit-from-unused-quota\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Groundfish Fishermen Should Benefit from Unused Quota"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the support of Senator John Kerry, Congressman Bill Keating, and Congressman Barney Frank, New England groundfish fishermen are asking if they can \u201ccarry over\u201d a portion of unused catch for the upcoming fishing year.\u00a0 EDF thinks this makes sense and will work with NMFS and the New England Fishery Management Council<\/a> to support putting this into place.<\/p>\n

Carry-over is generally allowed under catch share programs for two reasons.\u00a0 First, catch limits in later years are often set assuming a certain level of catch in earlier years.\u00a0 If the actual catch is less than the maximum allowed in a given year, that typically will result in a higher level of sustainable yield the following year.\u00a0 Second, allowing carry-over prevents a rush by fishermen to meet their quota limits at the end of the season.\u00a0 Such a rush could disrupt all the benefits catch shares can deliver with respect to careful and selective fishing practices that minimize bycatch and habitat impacts, and strategic choices of when and where to fish in response to weather conditions, market demand, and other factors.<\/p>\n

\"Harvested<\/a>In this first year of the New England groundfish sector program, like the first year of many new management programs, fishermen undoubtedly were cautious as they figured out how best to fish their quota.\u00a0 It makes sense to let fishermen benefit from the conservative harvest seen in the first year of sectors.<\/p>\n

Sector fishermen are already allowed to carryover up to 10% of any unused quota.\u00a0 It is clear from looking at the amount of unused quota (see chart below) that the catch of many stocks will be more than 10% below the science-based catch limits set to guard against overfishing.\u00a0 Rather than simply forgo the socio-economic benefits to be gained from at least some of the unused quota, we hope fishery managers can allow fishermen to reap some of the rewards of their conservative fishing this year.<\/p>\n

Support seems to be steadily building towards having NMFS and the New England Fishery Management Council take active steps to decide what amount of additional unused quota can safely be carried over for the species that were underfished in 2010.\u00a0 The appropriate percentage levels should be based on the biology of each species, so that we don\u2019t set the fishery back by jeopardizing rebuilding of overfished stocks and compromising the productivity of rebuilt stocks.\u00a0 However, it is unlikely that all of the unused quota should be carried over.\u00a0 After all, natural mortality continues to act upon the stock, and will remove some of the fish that would have been harvested had the full quota been fished.\u00a0 A scientific analysis can determine how much of the fishing year 2010 quota is likely to still be available to the fleet in fishing year 2011.<\/p>\n

Taken together, this measure, as well as the increased ACLs for many groundfish stocks next year and fishermen\u2019s continually improving ability to navigate the sector program, should lead to increased yields and revenues across the fleet, and a more economically and environmentally stable fishery in 2011.<\/p>\n

Jake Kritzer is EDF\u2019s Senior Marine Scientist for the New England and Mid-Atlantic regions.\u00a0 He is also Vice-Chair of the New England Fishery Management Council\u2019s Scientific and Statistical Committee, among other advisory appointments. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the support of Senator John Kerry, Congressman Bill Keating, and Congressman Barney Frank, New England groundfish fishermen are asking if they can \u201ccarry over\u201d a portion of unused catch for the upcoming fishing year.\u00a0 EDF thinks this makes sense and will work with NMFS and the New England Fishery Management Council to support putting …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1993,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[472,517,516,72530,669,537],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-england","tag-catch-shares","tag-fishery-management","tag-groundfish","tag-new-england","tag-quota","tag-sectors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nNew England Groundfish Fishermen Should Benefit from Unused Quota - EDFish<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2011\/04\/25\/new-england-groundfish-fishermen-should-benefit-from-unused-quota\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New England Groundfish Fishermen Should Benefit from Unused Quota - 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