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Portland Fish Exchange subcommittee weighs tiered fees, direct offloads and lumping concerns to attract larger landings
Summary
The subcommittee discussed options to attract larger boats, including contract offloads into vats and tiered fee structures (examples cited: 10' per lb for simple vat offloads, 20' for grading into totes, $30 per vat), and debated whether PFE staff performing lumping creates a double-pay issue that reduces exchange revenue.
The PFE subcommittee spent significant time discussing how to lure larger landings to Portland, focusing on contract offloads (vat-based direct unloading), fee options and labor logistics.
Rob (a committee member) described how contract offloads work: "They come out of the boat. They get they get dumped in a vat and ice, and then they get forklifted..." He and Robert Vanmeter explained three current options: run fish through the vat without grading (about 10' per pound), grade and put fish into totes (about 20' per pound), or offer a per-vat handling price (examples cited…
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