I doubt anything would change much, it just means the quotas would be open. Not one rule for you and another rule for them.
If I wanted to buy from a vessel and sell it on I just need a fish recievers licence, that's quite expensive would need to profit a lot just to cover that, and have to do a lot of paper work, but if I wanted to do the whole process myself, like go out myself and catch and sell it's just phenomenal costs. Specific registered vessel, multiple licences, and purchasing quota. As well as all the masses of paper work and fees.
Most people here know I love fishing and I would like to work for myself, but I will never be able to do what I want to do in life because of the barriers and costs.
Maybe you need to start at the bottom and work your way up. Instead of expecting to be able to be the captain of your own fishing vessel, a more sensible and realistic approach might be to work to get yourself on an existing crew and with hard work, diligence, dedication, and committed pursuit in time perhaps you could eventually manage or own your own vessel.
That's how most of us earn our way that corporate ladder.
I'll share my history as an example. When I graduated high school I entered college with a plan to earn a music teaching degree and become a high school band director. After one year, the prospect of a large debt among other things became too much burden and during the first summer break I managed to pick up a job at a local iron mining company that paid rather well so I dropped out of college.
Four years later, in 1982 when a major depression hit the area, I was among 1/3 of the workforce that was laid off. I struggled to find a job for about a year, eventually accepting a minimum wage position at a local lumber yard loading vehicles that paid less than half what I was earning in the mine with no other benefits but it was a job.
A few months later I contacted a former logging employer of mine and he had a position that would pay a little better so I quit the lumber yard and went back into the logging industry and over the next couple years worked my way up to skidder operator and then shear operator.
During that same time I was married to my first wife and she had purchased a hand-operated knitting machine and tying that with her artistic ability she began designing and selling hand-made sweaters and other items incorporating her artistic designs. I began to help her by managing inventory, production, and shipping the products while she managed the books and sales. We were a 2-person team working out of our home but, long story short, we quickly built the business up to three machines and three additional employees. Unfortunately, my wife began to see greener pastures outside our marriage and we divorced. The business was lost as I was not prepared nor talented enough to keep it running myself.
I was back to barely scratching a living and decided to explore the possibility of returning to school. Our state provided funding to help people retrain and combined with part-time jobs I managed to attend a local Vocational Technical Institute in a program called, "Automated Systems Maintenance." It was a 2-year program geared toward maintaining industrial machinery and touched on many areas including, hard-wired electrical systems maintenance and troubleshooting, conduit layout and installation, wire sizing and over-current protection, electrical sensors and actuators, board level electronics, instrumentation and control, programmable logic controller programming, variable speed motor controls, pneumatic/hydraulic controls, sensors, and actuators, CNC programming and operation, understanding and applying various electrical codes, and technical writing.
This was obviously scratching the surface of these things over two years but it gave me a door opening when my company came to interview for potential new employees and I was hired. I began at an entry level electrical installer position on our production floor where I applied most of my technical training. When I was hired I made it known that my goal was to eventually be able to move up to field service technician to install, troubleshoot, and install modifications to machinery in the field and after two years an opportunity arose.
I later was offered an opportunity to fill our company's first opening for a field service advisor to assist our field technicians and customers over the phone with my electrical and programming skills.
As time went on, I was partly instrumental in defining a need to expand our technical services to include electrical design for field modifications and upgrades. With my help we acquired a CAD system and I began incorporating that work along with my advisory position, which opened the door to expand our advisory staff. Eventually, it was decided that electrical design needed to be separated from advisory and I was offered the first choice so I accepted the first position of field service electrical designer, which I held for about 10 years until I took the next step to field service project engineer where I wrote up the proposals for field modifications.
When I left the company, our aftermarket modifications and design generated about $10M worth of business annually for our company and provides a huge benefit for our customers, allowing them to modify they existing equipment for new products and services they can provide. I had heard on more than one occasion that our aftermarket services plays a primary role in repeat business for our company.
I wasn't offered all of these opportunities just because. I earned all of them with hard work, dedication to our company and our customers, and a willingness to go the extra mile even when at times I felt I was taken advantage of. I often took the initiative to learn new things and keep up to date with growing technology, which is not easy when it comes to electrical motor controls. By the time I left the company I was working with servo motor controls and robotics controls that weren't even in existence when I started.
