Oh, I don't think so. The fishermen I've spoken with go to the processing company. They don't really know whose quota they have; they just get it through the processing company.
We are dealing with a company on salmon quotas right now, and they treat their quotas as though they were an enterprise allocation. They take all of their quotas, put them in a big pot and then just shuffle them out as the fishery goes on.
Fishermen are indentured to the company. They also pay a promised amount up front that comes off their settlement. These guys are indentured to the company, so they're not going to just run off. But a company will take their quota and just deal it out.