Sharing the Sea: Alaska's CDQ Program
- Video no.: MAPV-40
- Year: 2000
- No. mins: 58
- Price: $15.00 US
Description
A historic economic initiative begun in 1992 changed the lives of thousands of Alaskans who live in western Alaska. Known as the Community Development Quota Program, the novel initiative mandates that all Bering Sea coastal villages receive and manage a share of the quotas in the lucrative offshore fishery. The CDQ program gives economic opportunities to residents of the Bering Sea coast, allowing them to support themselves. They work on factory trawlers, in shoreside processing plants, and in other seafood businesses. It is a chance to control their own futures.
The video tells the story of how the CDQ program was initiated and developed, and how it works today. See archival footage of the way life used to be on the Bering Sea coast; go fishing with villagers from St. Lawrence Island and the Pribilofs; visit with people in the remote village of Atka in the Aleutian Islands; ship out on huge factory trawlers; visit Dutch harbor, Bristol Bay, and Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta communities; and more.
