Fisher Rank | Percent of Allotted Quota |
1-5 | 3.94 |
6-10 | 3.64 |
11-15 | 3.34 |
16-20 | 3.04 |
21-25 | 2.74 |
26-30 | 2.44 |
31-32 | 2.15 |
Note: If 90% of the harvest quota established in s. NR 25.06(2) (a) 3. equaled 1,890,000 pounds, permittees in fisher rank 1-5 would have individual quotas of 74,466 pounds. The excess over 70,000 pounds for each would be totalled, being 22,300 pounds, and divided equally among the remaining 27 individual quotas, 826 pounds each.
Note: If during the base catch period (January, 1979 - December 1982), a permittee reported catching a total of 20,200 pounds of perch and the overall total reported perch harvest was 1,600,000 pounds, that permittee's individual license catch quota percentage would be 1.26%. If the total allowable annual commercial harvest was set at 100,000 pounds, that permittee's individual licensee catch quota would be 1,260 pounds.
A = the total annual Lake Michigan and Green Bay smelt harvest limit, in pounds, set in s. NR 25.06(2) (c) 1m.;
B = 35.19932%;
C = 64.80067%;
D = in any license year, the total number of Lake Michigan commercial fishing licensees minus the number of licensees issued quota smelt fishery permits under subd. 5.; and
E = .0004241
Wis. Admin. Code Department of Natural Resources NR 25.07
See the table of Appellate Court Citations for Wisconsin appellate cases citing s. NR 25.07.