Dan Hull, Chairman
David Witherell, Executive Director
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IFQ Committee - Report on Proposals
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STAFF CONTACT: Sam Cunningham (NPFMC)
ACTION REQUIRED: recommended action
* Review Committee minutes
* Consider future tasking based on Committee recommendations
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BACKGROUND:
The IFQ Committee meets on Monday, February 5 at the Seattle Renaissance Hotel. The meeting agenda is posted as an attachment under C6 on the Council's electronic agenda. Meeting minutes will be prepared during the Council week and presented to both the Council and the AP.
The Committee will review staff discussion papers on the IFQ Program medical lease provision and on the process for designating IFQ holder survivorship beneficiaries who are eligible to temporarily lease IFQ. Both papers were tasked after the Committee and the Council received the IFQ Program 20-Year Review in 2016.
* The Committee requested further analysis of the increased utilization of the medical lease provision after regulatory changes to the use of hired masters were implemented in 2014. The Committee will consider recommending alternatives for analysis that could refine limits on how often a quota share holder may use the medical lease provision and could also revise the definition of qualified medical providers.
* The Committee recommended an assessment of the beneficiary lease provision at NMFS's request. The agency was increasingly finding itself in the position of determining familial relations in the absence of a will and noted that Federal and state definitions of "immediate" family had changed since the IFQ Program was implemented.
The Committee will receive a presentation from University of Alaska - Fairbanks researcher, Jesse Coleman, about the application of a recently published study, Turning the Tide: How can Alaska address the 'graying of the fleet' and loss of rural fisheries access? That document is available on the Council's electronic agenda and on the IFQ Committee's we...
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