172:12 - 172:42
“Over 750,000 pounds of CQE sablefish and halibut combined went unfished in 2025.”
- Speaker
- Unidentified speaker
- Timestamp
- 172:12 – 172:42
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
Okay. So, my understanding of the impetus of this proposed item is there's an interest in generating more accessible and efficient internal management systems that may allow for more quota to be harvested. Um, so I just wanted to highlight Table 2 here to demonstrate there has been low prosecution rates of CQE quota, especially in recent years. Over 750,000 pounds of CQE sablefish and halibut combined went unfished in 2025. These low prosecution rates can be problematic because they may be out of alignment with the CQE program's goals, which is to ensure that the quota is allocated to eligible community entity and would be held and not unfished.
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