Whats wrong with this story???

[Bluewater Sportfishing]

Ok,
A few salmon fishermen in Alaska have stumbled on a new way to bring salmon that has almost always gone to the cannery to be turned into canned food for the american people. What these guys are doing is taking the fish they catch and filleting them on the boat then vacume sealing the product in their own package and bringing it to market to be sold as fresh fish to the people who want to buy fresh. To me its a great idea. some groundfishermen in Maine are doing the same thing although they have taken it a step further and are selling "shares" of fresh cod and haddock to locals in the area where they get 3.00 dollars a pound instead of the 0.34 cents a pound they get from the buyers. makes a ton of sense to me.

Anyway back to the salmon guys. the dec has put a stop to this type of handleing of fish at sea. Why they think because the procssers are putting the heat on the dec to shut these guys down because its taking fish away from them...bullshit. Now get this these procsessers are taking the fish and heading and gutting the fish then the fish go to f-ing china to get procsessed and then shiped back to Alaska to be canned then sold. what the hell is that??
Anyway this is whats wrong with the government of today he who has the lobby monies wins.........

[clt_capt]

I agree. It sure seems to me that the fishermen are the ones doing the work and should have the right to sell their fish where it benefits them most.

Unfortunately all too often the middlemen are the ones that reap the big profit and also force the fishermen to deliver fish on their schedule, not on what is safe and reasonable for the fishermen.

Big case in point - the crab fishery - the IFQ system was supposed to make crab fishing safer, but instead, the processors now dictate when the crab must be delivered to meet a particular price point - not much of a change from the derby style.

[swell rider]

I spent 22 yrs working in Alaska in both the Crab and Halibut fisheries. Were the Crab IFQ program differs from the Halibut and Blackcod " Sablefish" Program is that the processors control the crab fishery. The crab boats that are actively fishing there IFQ have to sell 90% of there catch to there designated processor. This was one of the rules that was pushed through by Ted Stevens as a rider on a bill that was being put through during the 2003 Opilio season. What this did was aloud the proccessors to set the price and fishing schedules. The season my be open but they'll only buy during certain times.
During the Halibut and Blackcod fishery the boats can sell to whoever they choose giving them the ability to find the highest buyer.

[SLAYER25]

I WOULD LOVE TO DO SOME COMMERCIAL FISHING IN ALASKA

[livetofishnj]

I spent 22 yrs working in Alaska in both the Crab and Halibut fisheries. Were the Crab IFQ program differs from the Halibut and Blackcod " Sablefish" Program is that the processors control the crab fishery. The crab boats that are actively fishing there IFQ have to sell 90% of there catch to there designated processor. This was one of the rules that was pushed through by Ted Stevens as a rider on a bill that was being put through during the 2003 Opilio season. What this did was aloud the proccessors to set the price and fishing schedules. The season my be open but they'll only buy during certain times.
During the Halibut and Blackcod fishery the boats can sell to whoever they choose giving them the ability to find the highest buyer.

don't they set the price for crab as a co-op/union? I thought that in the past they didn't go fish until they had a price that all of the fishermen agreed to. Has this changed with the advent of the IFQ fishery?