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The Community Development Quota (CDQ) Program is no longer administered through the State of Alaska.

For information regarding the CDQ Program, please contact:

 

Wanetta Ayers
Executive Director of the Western Alaska
Community Development Quota Program:
Voice: (907) 868-7634
Fax: (907) 868-7635
Email: info@wacda.org
Website: http://www.wacda.org/

OR

Sally Bibb
CDQ Program Coordinator with the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association
Telephone: (907) 586-7389
Email: sally.bibb@noaa.gov
Website: http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/cdq/


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The Community Development Quota Program began in December of 1992 with the goal of promoting fisheries related economic development in western Alaska. The program is a federal fisheries program that involves eligible communities who have formed six regional organizations, referred to as CDQ groups. There are 65 communities within a fifty-mile radius of the Bering Sea coastline who participate in the program.

NOTICE OF PROPOSED CHANGES DEALING WITH WESTERN ALASKA CDQ PROGRAM

NOTICE OF 2006 CRAB ADDENDUM AND 2007-2008 ALLOCATION CYCLE

The CDQ program allocates a portion of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Island harvest amounts to CDQ groups, including pollock, halibut, Pacific cod, crab and bycatch species. There are no significant amounts of salmon allocated. Based upon its evaluation of the Community Development Plans submitted by the six CDQ groups, the State of Alaska and the National Marine Fisheries Service periodically allocates percentages of each species to CDQ groups. The CDQ program was granted perpetuity status during the 1996 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

The program was modeled after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). However, the CDQ program was created with three primary differences:

  • Government oversight of all business activities
  • Community based shareholders instead of individual shareholders
  • Requirement that all investments be fisheries related

The six CDQ groups are:

  • Aleutian Pribilof Island Community Development Association (6 communities)
  • Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation (17 communities)
  • Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association (1 community)
  • Coastal Villages Region Fund (20 communities)
  • Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation (15 communities)
  • Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association (6 communities)

Since 1992, over $110 million in wages, education, and training benefits have been generated for over 25,000 residents. As of 2003, the asset value of the six CDQ groups exceeded $260 million. Since 1992, over $500 million in revenues have been generated. The CDQ program has been successfully contributing to fisheries infrastructure in western Alaska by funding docks, harbors, and the construction of seafood processing facilities. The CDQ program has allowed CDQ groups to acquire equity ownership interests in the pollock, Pacific cod, and crab sectors which provide additional revenues to fund local in-region economic development projects, and education and training programs.

CDQ Program Information

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Map illustrating the six CDQ group areas Previous Allocation Cycles
CDQ Program State Regulations - 6 AAC 93 Adobe Acrobat Document CDP Application Packet, 2006 - 2008
Federal-State Agency CDQ
Organizational Chart
Adobe Acrobat Document
2005 Crab Addendum CDP Application Packet
State & Federal CDQ
Contact Information
Adobe Acrobat Document
2006 - 2008 CDP Applications
CDQ Groups - Contact Information Adobe Acrobat Document CDQ Public Hearings 2004
CDQ Technical Amendment Form Adobe Acrobat Document CDQ Blue Ribbon Panel Executive Report
CDQ Group Statistics  
CDQ Employment Success Stories  
CDQ Quarterly Report Guidelines Adobe Acrobat Document
(Revised 12-02-2002)
    
Western Alaska CDQ Study Reports 11/01,12/01, 12/01, 11/02  
CDQ Handbook (September 2003)  
Related Links  

CDQ Group Quarterly Reports

2006 - 1st Quarter

Aleutian/Pribilof Island Community Development Association Adobe Acrobat Document
Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation Adobe Acrobat Document
Central Bering Sea Fishermen's Association Adobe Acrobat Document
Coastal Villages Region Fund Adobe Acrobat Document
Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation Adobe Acrobat Document
Yukon Delta Fisheries Development Association Adobe Acrobat Document


For details on each of the six CDQ groups visit the
Western Alaska CDQ Web site


Click on the year to access archived quarterly reports.

For more information about the CDQ Program, please contact:

CDQ Staff
E-mail
Joe Austerman CDQ Manager Joe.Austerman@alaska.gov
     

 

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