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PERMIT AND PERMIT TRANSFER STATISTICS

TABLE DESCRIPTION: Permit transfer and transfer survey information are summarized by permit fishery and year. For each permit fishery and year, tables include the number of permanent permits, permits held by Alaskans, transfers, changes in residency, and state liens. Also included are the numbers of monetary and non-monetary transfers, the average price paid for permits, and the number of financed transfers.

The table contains the following information:

FISHERY
The permit fishery for which permit and transfer data is summarized.

YEAR
The year for which the permit and transfer data is summarized.

ACTUAL TRANSFER INFORMATION

TOTAL PERMANENT PERMITS
This is the number of permanent permits in a fishery. Permanent permits that have been cancelledare not included.

PERMANENT PERMITS HELD BY ALASKANS
This is the number of permanent permits in a fishery held by Alaskan residents. The type of fee paid for permit renewal, either Alaskan resident or nonresident, determines residency. In the event that someone other than the permit holder pays the fees, the declared residency of the permit holder determines residency. Permits held by the Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development Division of Investments (DCCED) or the Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank (CFAB) are counted as resident permits. Numbers on this report may differ from those in previous versions due to residency status changes resulting from residency investigations.

TOTAL NUMBER OF TRANSFERS
This is the number of permanent transfers for the permit fishery. This number includes foreclosures by DCCED or CFAB.

NUMBER OF PERMITS INVOLVED IN TRANSFERS
This is the number of permits involved in transfers for the permit fishery. A permit may transfer more than one time in a year. If a permit transfers more than one time in a year, the number of permits involved in transfers will be fewer than the number of transfers.

CHANGE IN RESIDENCY DUE TO TRANSFERS
The number of permanent permits held by Alaskan residents may change due to the transfer of a permit, the migration of a permit holder, the revocation of a permit, a foreclosure on a permit, and the forfeiture of a permit. This column indicates the change in the number of permanent permits held by Alaskan residents due to the transfer of permits. A positive number (+) indicates there was an increase in that number of permits held by Alaskan residents due to transfer; a negative number (-) indicates there was a decrease in that number of permits held by Alaskan residents due to transfer; and a zero (0) indicates there was no net change in the number of permits held by Alaskan residents due to transfer. These numbers may differ from numbers in previous versions due to residency status changes resulting from residency investigations.

PERMITS WITH STATE LIENS
The number of permits by year that have been financed by DCCED or by CFAB or which have been used as collateral against a commercial fishing loan from one of these agencies. Permits which have had at least one outstanding lien some time during the year and which were held by year-end permit holders are counted. These numbers may differ from those shown in previous versions due to permit file corrections and changes in the accounting of foreclosed permits.

TRANSFER SURVEY INFORMATION

Transfer surveys were voluntary until January 1, 1980. Many transfers occurred without completion of a survey form during the years 1975-1979. A few surveys are missing for 1980 and 1981. In addition, there have been tenadministratively ordered transfers in the 1986-1994 for which no surveys exist.

NUMBER OF NON-MONETARY TRANSFERS
For 1975-1979 any transfer not counted as a monetary transfer was counted as a non-monetary transfer. For 1980 to the present, any transfer survey that did not have a sale price greater than $500 was counted as a non-monetary transfer.

NUMBER OF MONETARY TRANSFERS
For 1975-1979 the number of monetary transfers reported in this table is the number of transfer surveys used to compute the average price of permits for use by DCCED and CFAB in their loan programs. These surveys were selected using different exclusionary criteria that surveys from 1980 to the present. For 1980 to the present, any transfer survey with a sale price greater than $500 was counted as a monetary transfer.

AVERAGE PRICE PAID FOR PERMITS

The average price paid for permits reflects the average sale price of monetary transfers.  From 1980 to the present, average prices in this table may differ from CFEC Estimated Permit Value Reports (monthly reports) due to the more stringent criteria used for exclusion from the monthly report.  A ‘---‘  indicates that the average sale price cannot be calculated since no monetary transfers occurred for this fishery in this year.  A ‘***’ indicates that the average sale price is confidential information because fewer than four monetary transfers occurred for this fishery in this year.

NUMBER OF FINANCED MONETARY TRANSFERS
The number of monetary transfers by fishery and year that are financed by one of the following: a bank or lending institution, DCCED, CFAB, a fish processor, or the transferor (seller). Monetary transfers that are financed with personal resources are not included in this count.