One thing the quota system has done is that it's helped to rationalize, as in explain, what happens with bycatch. So if you catch a certain number of things you don't actually have quota for, you're able to find somebody with quota prepared to sell it to you so that you can actually land that fish, or bring it in.
Let's say you catch 100 pounds of something and you need quota in order to take it in and land it, what's the process for finding that quota?