Lauren Howard
366:25 - 366:58
“While the CQE program was designed to create greater access for for GOA communities. Over the past 2 decades, the high cost of halibut IFQ and administrative burden of starting and managing a CQE has limited its success.”
- Speaker
- Lauren Howard
- Timestamp
- 366:25 – 366:58
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
The AP recommends the Council adopt a purpose and need and the following suite of alternatives for initial review. The purpose and need could include these recommendations: commercial fisheries have long served as the cultural, social, and economic foundation for coastal Alaska communities, providing jobs and income, food security, and multigenerational knowledge and culture transfer. While the CQE program was designed to create greater access for GOA communities over the past two decades, the high cost of halibut IFQ and administrative The administrative burden of starting and managing a CQE has limited its success. The CQE program intended to maintain commercial fishing opportunities in rural coastal Alaskan communities, to revive economic opportunity and rebuild infrastructure essential to the harvesting, processing, and marketing of seafood, the local employment and economy, and the generations of connections to the sea and the long-term viability of the community itself. And these actions intend to help enhance Access to the halibut and sablefish resource by residents of fishery-dependent communities.
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