The Minister of Fisheries met several powerful fish owners in Austevoll on Monday to talk about the new quota notification. Among those who confronted the minister was Christian Halstensen. He is chairman of Fiskebåt, the sea fishing fleet’s interest organisation, and general manager of Austevollrederiet Halstensen Bekkjarvik. – The big problem with this quota notification is that it takes quota shares from the sea fishing fleet, and transfers them to the coastal fishing fleet. It is problematic in an awful lot of ways. – We in the organization have calculated that, and if we take fishermen at the customs bottom, a fisherman will lose approximately NOK 50,000 in his annual income, says Halstensen. Christian Halstensen is very critical of the new quota notification. Photo: Johan Moen / news Will create justice The Minister of Fisheries was prepared for reactions. – We are talking about very large resources. So I hope we will have a good debate about that. She believes that the quota notification will create justice. – Over time, it is the case that more resources than have been politically desired have gone into fewer hands, i.e. larger players. What we are doing with this quota notice is to correct it in order to create a fairer distribution when it comes to our coast. Halstensen completely disagrees: – We have always experienced a broad agreement on the distribution of resources that has been fixed there. – The most obvious, self-evident expectations we have for politics are put into play. What we thought were crystal clear things are being moved on, and that’s not good. The Quota Report in summary The Quota Report is the government’s proposal for how the quota policy, within fisheries, should be leading in the coming years. The government proposes, among other things, an increased quota basis for the coastal fleet under 11 meters to 2 per cent of the coastal fleet’s quota basis. They are establishing a new and changed co-fishing arrangement for sharks in closed groups under 11 metres. They are introducing certain restrictions on the concentration of owners in the coastal fleet. They propose to support the Norwegian Fishermen’s Association’s decision on the redistribution of the tradable quotas after the end of their lifetime – and to some extent continue the current structuring policy. They are reintroducing the dynamic trawl ladder, which gives the coastal fleet increased cod and herring quotas, this year with lower fishing quotas. The report also contains proposals for measures to ensure a green transformation of the fishing fleet, including a working group that will assess how it can be facilitated for a vessel design with a smaller climate footprint. The government will not tax the resource interest in the fisheries, but assumes that it goes back to the local communities along the coast through activity and employment. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. This means the quota message The fishing quotas determine how much fish each boat is allowed to fish, where they are allowed to fish and what they must do with the fish when it is taken from the sea. The new quota notification is called “People, fish and community – a quota notification for predictability and fair distribution”. The aim is to redistribute the quota basis between large and small vessels in the fishing fleet. The quota notification brings with it some changes. These are two of them: The government is introducing ownership restrictions in the coastal fleet. This will lead to simple large coastal fishing vessels having to sell part of their quotas. The co-fishing scheme will be discontinued from 2025. Fisheries Minister Cecilie Myrseth is satisfied with the quota notification she presented on Friday. Photo: Aurora Ytreberg Meløe / Aurora Ytreberg Meløe
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Marine fishermen critical of changes in fisheries policy – news Vestland
