“Catch shares” is a general term associated with several fisheries management strategies that dedicate a secure share of fish to individual fishermen, cooperatives, or fishing communities for their exclusive use.
Atlantic Sea Scallops IFQ (2010)
Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog (1990)
Golden Tilefish (2009)
Wreckfish (1991)
No catch share programs
Red Snapper (2007)
Grouper and Tilefish (2010)
Aleutian Islands Pollock (2005)
Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Groundfish (Non-Pollock) Cooperatives - Amendment 80 (2008)
No catch share programs
Note: From 1996 to 2002, there was a congressional moratorium on the establishment of new IFQ programs.
In 2007, Congress reauthorized the Magnuson-Stevens Act, Section 303A with provisions for limited access privilege programs.
Amendment 80 Cooperatives
American Fisheries Act Pollock Cooperatives
Community Development Quota Program
Crab Rationalization
Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program
Halibut & Sablefish Individual Fishing Quota Program
Raw oysters on plate. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
Scientists sample for pollock. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
NOAA Administrator, Dr. Richard Spinrad, Dick Jones of Blue Ocean Mariculture, and NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator, Janet Coit, at Seafood Expo North America in March 2022. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.
