Community Development Quota Program
The Western Alaska Community
Development Quota (CDQ) Program was created by the Council in 1992 to
provide western Alaska communities an opportunity to participate in
the BSAI fisheries that had been foreclosed to them because of the
high capital investment needed to enter the fishery. The purpose of
the CDQ Program is to provide the means for starting or supporting
commercial fisheries business activities that will result in an
ongoing, regionally based, fisheries-related economy in Western
Alaska. The program accomplishes this goal by allocating a percentage
of all Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands quotas for groundfish,
prohibited species, halibut, and crab to the six CDQ groups that
represent eligible CDQ communities.
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/cdq/default.htm
CDQ Legal
Opinion 6/07
May 2007 CDQ regulation of harvests
EA
CDQ MSA
Amendments in the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act
LINKS:
Legal opinion
on the MSA and Amendment 85
Coast
Guard and MSA of 2006 (sections 416 and 417)
*NOTE: non-CDQ sections have been
removed.
NMFS letter about FACA and the CDQ Panel,
August 2006
NMFS letter Suspending Certain Regulations for
Community Development Plans and Amendments,
August 2006
Initial
Administrative Determination to Extend the 2003-2005 CDQ Allocations
and CDPs, August 2005
April 2006
CDQ Eligibility
December 2005
CDQ motion
December 2005 CDQ Amendment 71
Discussion Paper
updated 11/21
December 2005
Modify CDQ Program
EA/RIR
October 2005 Council Motion, A
Regulatory Amendment to Modify the
Management of Community Development Quota Groundfish Reserves
June 2005
Alternatives to Revise the Fisheries
Management Regulations for the CDQ Program Groundfish Fisheries
April 8, 2005 Council Motion on the CDQ
program
Proposed changes to the CDQ Program, October
2004
Council motion on CDQ Program (C-8), June 12, 2004
The Council recommends further analysis associated with the draft EA/RIR
for a regulatory amendment to modify management of the CDQ groundfish
reserves to address the issues raised by the SSC and to provide the
Council with a revised document in October 2004. At that time, the
Council will decide whether to release the document for public review.
The Council also
approved the following as both separate alternatives and as options to
Alternatives 2 and 3 for further review in the EA/RIR:
- Allow
after-the-fact CDQ transfers between CDQ groups during the year,
thus allowing a CDQ group to cover an overage of its allocated
quota.
- Allow the CDQ
groups to manage the harvest of their respective allocations of
target species among themselves in a cooperative manner, pursuant to
a contract that is filed with the Council, NMFS, and the State of
Alaska. This approach will be modeled on the harvest cooperatives
that have developed under the American Fisheries Act.
Council Motion on CDQ issues
April 5, 2004
The Council amended its previous motion on BSAI Amendment 71 to
split it into two FMP amendments:
Amendment 71a will address revisions to the purpose
of the CDQ Program and the allowance for non-fisheries projects. This
FMP amendment and regulatory amendment will move forward as a first
priority.
Amendment 71b will address the oversight issues and
the CDQ allocation process. Staff will bring additional analysis of
the oversight issues back to the Council for initial review at a
future Council meeting.
The Council also recommends that the minor regulatory revisions in
Issue 8 of Amendment 71 be implemented through a separate regulatory
amendment as soon as possible.
CDQ
Policy Council Motion June 2002
