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Cod quota transfer from 2023 to 2024

The system of transferring cod quotas at vessel level will continue.

It is not necessary to submit an application or report to have the remaining quota transferred from 2023 to 2024. For the vessels that fall under the scheme, the sales teams will automatically transfer the permitted share of the remaining quota of cod to 2024.

Source: Fiskeribladet

Final catch numbers must be recorded

In order for the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries to be able to make a final settlement of quota flexibility at group and total quota level, as well as take into account the amount of cod quota at vessel level to be transferred from 2023 to 2024, final catch figures must be registered. This will only happen at the beginning of 2024.

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The Directorate of Fisheries will ask the sales teams to forward these figures as soon as they are available. The Directorate of Fisheries then allocates final cod quotas for 2024 continuously. To avoid vessels receiving lower quotas after the adjustment, 90% of the quotas were allocated on 1 January 2024 (adjusted for forecasts of expected overfishing or underfishing).

The quantity transferred at vessel level from 2023 to 2024 will not appear in the quota register of the Directorate of Fisheries.

Source: Institute of Marine Research

To obtain information regarding the transferred quantity, fishermen must contact their sales team.

Transfer of quantum

Transfer access is conditional on a catch being registered on the vessel's participant access in 2023.

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If the passive vessel in a co-fishing team (quota cooperation scheme) has had its quota reduced according to § 31 last paragraph of the regulation on the regulation of cod, haddock and pollock north of 62°N in 2023, the reduced quota is taken into account when calculating the remaining quota.

Vessels that have received a cod quota in 2023 through the random fishing scheme will have this included as part of the calculation basis when calculating how large a quantity can be transferred to 2024. For vessels that have given up cod quota through the random fishing scheme, the given quota will be deducted from the calculation basis.

Vessels that want to give up quota through the accidental fishing scheme in 2024 must normally have fished at least 30% of the quota before the scheme can be used. Catch landed on transferred quota from 2023 shall not be taken into account in the assessment of whether this requirement has been met.

Source: Fiskeribladet

Loss of transferred quota

Catches in 2024 will first be settled against the vessel's transferred quota from 2023 until this has been caught.

The conditions for forfeiture of transferred quota were softened in autumn 2022. Following the change in the regulations, it is required that the transferred quota in 2024 must be fished with the same owner and the same quota basis as at the end of 2023. Any change of owner or quota basis after 31 December 2023 will lead to the loss of transferred quota. It is the part of the transferred quota that is still unfished when the change takes place that will be lost. Use of the scheme for chartered vessels does not mean that the transferred quota is lost.

Source: Fiskeridirektoratet (Translated from the original in Norwegian)

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