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South Carolina Fishing Reports - Fisheries Information - What are Catch Share? - I have been ask about Catch Chares and what they are. Just what is a catch share? A catch share is an exclusive guarantee that whoever holds the catch share has the exclusive
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:33 pm Post subject: Our March on Washington is paying off
Congressman Jones on Catch Shares
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Jones seeks to block expansion of NOAA’s catch share program
“Catch shares are not wanted in North Carolina. The last thing the federal government should be doing in these economic times is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to expand a program that will put even more Americans out of work.”
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday U.S. Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) filed a request to block funding for expansion of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Catch Share Program into fisheries in which North Carolina fishermen participate. The move comes in response to NOAA’s Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request which included proposals to cut funding for fisheries science and add $36.6 million to expand implementation of catch share programs into fisheries across the nation. Catch share programs grant shares of the total allowable catch in a given fishery to particular fishermen or groups. Congressman Jones asked the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science to include language in its Fiscal Year 2011 appropriations bill to block funding for new catch share programs in any fisheries under the jurisdiction of the Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Fisheries Management Councils. These councils have jurisdiction over the vast majority of the fisheries in federal waters in which North Carolina fishermen participate.
“Fishermen in Eastern North Carolina and many places across the country vehemently oppose catch share programs as nothing more than thinly veiled attempts to get fishermen to leave the business and to destroy fishing communities,” said Congressman Jones.
“The reality is that to the extent that solid science demonstrates that reductions in catch in any given fishery are necessary, there are far better options than catch shares for achieving those reductions. The bottom line is catch shares are not wanted in North Carolina. The last thing the federal government should be doing in these economic times is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to expand a program that will put even more Americans out of work.”
Now is the time for all of us to let our reps know exactly where we stand on CATCH SHARES. I don't believe there is any room in catch shares for REC/CHARTER fishing. While people like Jones and DiFizio are on board we need to let them know that we are against catch shares and we feel like we deserve a piece of the pie too.
This is what was sent to SOUTH ATLANTIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL "George Geiger is one member of the SAFMC"
I am totally against CATCH SHARES, there is a much better and EQUITABLE way to handle management. The councils management in the gulf has been a mess from the beginning. A new approach for the eastern coast council is a fresh approach.
The first thing we have to do is protect our inland waters (nurseries) from indiscriminate fishing. We have to protect our juvenile fish and allow them to migrate offshore to repeat the cycle. If people want to fish let them do it with a rod and reel, fish feed like people, they only eat when the time is right and that would go a long way towards conservation.
You would not have to end commercial fishing either, just take a better approach to it. When the moratorium was placed on snapper, grouper permits the buy 2 to get 1 permit was and did reduce the number of permit holders. Now what needs to be done is recognize that each and every permit holder has an equal stake to the fishery. Decide how many pound of fish are going to be allowed to be caught and for the commercial side's allotment divide them equally among the permit holders. "Here's the most important part to the equation, each permit holder gets an equal allotment of the poundage but is not able to sell his allotment if he doesn't choose to fish for them, these fish just end up back in the breeding stock, better for the fishery and better for the consumer. These fish would not be allowed to be sold outside this country. We would consume our own fish." This would insure a more stable supply of fresh caught local fish to the fish houses because some people would choose to fish different times of the year to catch their shares and be done with it and some would fish shorter trips and more frequent. Larger vessels would catch their share in the rougher weather months and smaller operators would catch their shares on better weather days and thus more of a year round supply of local fish plus if people weren't choosing to catch their allotments of fish they go back to increase the breeding stock, a win, win for everybody. As the stock increased (and it surely would) then the allottments would increase too.
This type of approach should help both the recreational fisherman and the commercial guys too. It would also increase the fish stocks immediately and give everyone EQUAL access to the fishery and preserve jobs on both sides, giving more people more equitable access to the fisheries.
This what GEORGE J GEIGER sent back:
Thank you for your thought full email. As an immediate response it makes sense however there could be some issuesa that surface on deeper investigation. I will take an opportunity to vet the idea and see if it has legs. Thanks
Sent back to GEORGE J GEIGER
George thanks for taking the time to read my proposal, I really think this type of approach has merit and would be better for the fishery on both sides of the aisle,it would benefit the greatest number of comm. guys , it would put a lot of fish back in the breeding stock which benefits the rec. guy, and unlike catch shares or tac's it would break up the big operators that would be sure to harvest every pound of fish and then some that were allocated to their side. This in turn would give us a more stable supply of local fish at the fish houses for consumption. It would re-enforce the very back bone of our society, in that everyone would have an equal stake in it, it would also make it easier for a kid to go into commercial fishing or follow their dreams by having a more reasonable approach to buying permits in the future.
Sent back from GEORGE J GEIGER
I would suggest you attempt to get backing for your proposal from a or some organized groups who could show some grass roots support. Thanks again. g
NOW read this article http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punew...secondarystory notice that even a few politicians are catching on, catch shares only benefit big time commercial operators, not even the mom and pop operations! Read and think about the part where DiFizio is questioning this NOAA guy and then makes this statement.
DiFazio continued that "the last thing I want is Goldman Sachs buying up all the shares of a fishery in three years, and (having) derivatives of fishery shares being sold on Wall Street. I don't think that you have a clue." (WHAT WOULD STOP "PEW" FROM BUYING UP THE SHARES?)
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