Leasing controversy: The United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union has written to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) objecting to what it says appears to be the creation of individual transferable quotas in non-ITQ fisheries.In a letter to DFO Regional Director Rebecca Reid, union President Kim Olsen said transfer guidelines in draft North Coast and South Coast salmon integrated fisheries management plans should not be written to permit individual license holders to declaretheir licenses to be ITQ licenses and to lease out quota in a non-ITQ fishery. This includes leasing out "quota" to the same gear type, to different gear types, or to First Nations economic fisheries.Olsen wrote that the union was not aware of any DFO policy that permits a non-fishing license holder to remove salmon from a non-ITQ fishery, as though they privately own it, for the purpose of leasing it.
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