Disappointment as only one Jersey fisher gets UK tuna licence
Shetty Chavan was the only successful Jersey applicant to get a bluefin tuna commercial licence
Alex Plaster, from the Government of Jersey’s marine resources team, said one licence was a “good result” for Jersey, but he understood why some were disappointed.
He said Jersey should be able to grant licences itself.
He said: “Wherever you are, the fishery for tuna is different from Jersey to Guernsey, let alone the fishery between Jersey and the UK; so we want to make it niche and we want to make it right for the island.”
Plaster said the system needed to be “tailored to Jersey” and that, because the process had been designed for bigger, UK boats, other issues had influenced the result too.
For example, one licence allowed a vessel to catch four tonnes of tuna.
He said: “We do know a lot of our applicants they didn’t want to apply because the quota was actually seen as too high for a Jersey fishery.”
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