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Community Sustainability Cooperatives in Central California: Continued fishery participation through quota share holdings in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery
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2019
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Description:In 2014, a group of fishing community stakeholders in the Morro Bay area of California began operation of the Morro Bay Community Quota Fund (MBCQF), a non-profit entity created to hold and manage individual fishing quota (IFQ) from the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery. In 2015, community stakeholders in the Monterey Bay area (California) formed the Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust (MBFT), a non-profit entity that was also created to manage groundfish quota. A driving force behind formation of these entities was concern that the individual transferable quota system, implemented for groundfish in 2011, would result in groundfish landings flowing out of their communities. Our study seeks to better understand the history and governance of these non-profit entities as well as explore the methods by which the cooperatives generate social, economic, and ecological benefits for their communities.
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