Bering Sea Crabbers help young AK fishermen get into industry with quota access program (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] October 16, 2014
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Get the Right of First Offer for crab quota shares. I’ll tell you more after this
Crabbers have devised a way to recruit young entrants into the Bering Sea fisheries. They want to get the word out, because the ‘graying of the fleet’ also applies to them.
"The long term future of the fishesry is dependent on bringing young people in. that’s not unique to crab, we are seeing all over Alaska and fisheries in the US. There just isn’t that pipeline of young people coming up through the ranks, and this Right of First Offer program is one of the ways we hope to change that."
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