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We have our national quota from the Joint Norwegian-Russian Fisheries Commission, which has established a fixed sharing of this quota between various vessel groups. Altogether, we have six vessel groups in our cod fishery.
The first sharing of quota is between trawlers and vessels fishing with conventional gear. In the Norwegian fishery, conventional gear is hook, longline, nets, and Danish seine. The quota for the conventional gear group is then divided into six different group quotas: one for ocean-going vessels, four closed-access groups for coastal vessels, and one open group. This system was established back in 1990, when we had the collapse of the cod stocks, to make sure that we had at least some vessels that had enough income from this fishery to sustain us in the crisis. After the cod stock recovered, it was decided that this system should go forward with closed access to most of the quota and fixed sharing between different vessel groups.
It should also be mentioned here that the regulation of quota between the vessel groups and between the vessels inside the group is based on secondary legislation fixed by the ministry for one year only. In principle, the division of quota between groups is up for consideration each year. There is, however, a very strong political commitment to having a stable division of quota, a stable sharing of quota, between groups and between vessels, so we have actually developed a fixed system for this over the years. Very much of this work was done in the national fishermen's organization to make sure that the fishermen were committed to a compromise whereby quota for different species were divided between vessel groups.
The compromises they reached have actually been in place in the cod fishery since the beginning of the 1990s, making the situation for each and every vessel very predictable. Of course, the total quota goes up and down, but their share, the individual vessel's share of the quota, is fixed in this compromise, not legally, but by a political commitment to having this kind of system. Our system is a little different from the Icelandic system, where they have more clearly an ITQ system, making it even more predictable for the vessel owners, but making it more difficult for the minister and the ministry to make changes in the distribution if that is deemed necessary.
This system, with a very tight connection between science and the fixing of quotas and a very strict division of quota between vessel groups, has produced a situation whereby the industry really expects the authorities to be predictable. This has made it possible for the industry to invest in the modernization of the vessels, not only for the bigger ocean-going vessels, but also for the coastal vessels, where we now have a rather modern and effective fishing fleet, and also the coastal fleet.
We place very great emphasis also on control and enforcement of the quota regulations. Our coast guard is present out at sea and our control authorities are present with regard to landings of fish. We do not control all landings of fish, obviously, but we try to control a certain percentage each year to be sure that there are no irregularities in the system.
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