Measuring the Effects of New England Catch Shares – Indicator: Crew Employment and Compensation
The total numbers of groundfish vessel crew positions and crew trips, by fishing year, for all home port states have decreased through the baseline period and into the initial years of the catch share program. The number of crew positions serves as an indicator of the available jobs, whereas the number of crew trips is the number of trips available for crew to work, or the total opportunities for crew to earn a share of the landings revenues. States with the highest involvement in the fishery (Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maine) experienced an overall decrease in crew trips and the number of crew positions per vessel remained relatively constant. Read the rest here San Francisco – Catch shares leave fishermen reeling Read the rest here 19:12
this would have been a good way to decide who got paid in pool 3! Have a chart for each captain listing their annual catches for the 3 years before catch shares compared to their annual catches in the 1st 3 years of catch shares. The ones who lost the most courtesy of the EDF Catch Shares scam should have gotten paid. Instead they are the ones who didn’t get paid in pool 3!