A blockade that prevents cruise ships and ship traffic will quickly become costly for the state. The coast is ready for battle.

When the quota announcement was made presented was the mantra “a fairer distribution”. The whole fleet was supposed to contribute to the open group was one of the big things. Here approx. 6 percent of the trawlers’ quotas are transferred to those who have the least, through the fact that the trawlers also had to be part of the splicing team.

This is experienced by large parts of the industry as completely natural, all the while that very many sea fishermen also have a vessel in an open group where they can fish for shad when they have off duty, and that the open group is the most important recruitment arena as a vessel owner.

In the 12th hour Norway’s Fishermen’s Association has therefore secretly put forward a proposal to use the third country quota as compensation. To stop the transfer from the big to the small. In reality, through this stunt, they have opened up the net transfer of fish from the small to the large. From what you see in the media, you can assume that this solution has been brought about by the capital power in the fishermen’s association’s sea fishing department, where they have deliberately kept the rest of the organization out.

The aim of the quota notification was to transfer some amount from the large to the small. In practice, Ap and Sp have negotiated increasingly further to the right, and end up in the settlement with pure right-wing politics together with satisfied representatives from the Conservative Party, FRP and Liberal Party.

Both in agriculture and fisheries Ap and Sp show themselves as pure right-wing parties, they would not enter into a majority settlement with the left, they would have with the Conservative Party. Then it will be right-wing politics in a broad settlement “that can stand over time”. As if anyone in their right mind can imagine a party going to the polls on a new quota notice to take from those who have the least and give to those who have the most.

The result is thus that the 4,000 tonnes that the trawlers draw in quota will be compensated with 12,000 tonnes. They get back three times as much as they lose. Brilliant move by the Conservative Party and the Fiskarlaget.

I’m taking notes that representatives Sjåstad and Strifeldt argue that they are not saying that EVERYTHING should be transferred to the sea. That it is the sitting minister who decides how much. But we actually have experience in the area. The fishing fleet has strong lobbyists who work day and night to secure more and more for them, and the propaganda they have presented in connection with the quota announcement should be said to show the power relationship in the industry.

In quota message 1.0 it was decided for the first time that the deep-sea fishing fleet should join the open group. In the same way as what exists now. Four regulatory years later, the conclusion is that the deep-sea fishing fleet has given up ZERO kilos to the open group.

Sitting ministers from The Conservative Party and Labor Party have failed to implement the Storting’s decision. If you also take into account the point that the current government has given most of both tusk and long to the sea fishing fleet and ribbed the coast – without even sending such a proposal for consultation, you see the contours of a scary picture.

You know which one power the sea fishing fleet possesses. Strifeldt and Sjåstad, who have obviously forgotten both their voters and where they come from, appear frighteningly ignorant of the distribution of resources.

Now it glows along the coast, and especially in the home county of the aforementioned two gentlemen. People are pissed off. The last time the temperature was as high and glowing along the coast of Finnmark was in 1945. The consequences will otherwise be the same.

The politicians think that the coastal fishermen in the north are so far out of power that they cannot carry out an uprising. The industry committee’s chairman Willfred Nordlund from Sp tells Fiskeribladet: “People must be allowed to express their opinion, but it’s a long way from Finnmark to Oslo. It is easier for farmers who live closer to Oslo to occupy the capital.” He therefore does not fear a fishermen’s revolt when the quota report is to be voted on in the Storting on 29 April.

Nordlund can be confident that the rebellion from the coast will come, although not to the Storting in the first instance. We actually expect that Nordlund & co. comes to mind. Where Nordlund thinks that the coastal fishermen are too far away to pose a threat – we understand that power has shifted away from the people. The fishermen and coastal people are not known to shout and scream in trains very often. The rage usually comes out on the docks and in the boats. There also comes the birth of this rebellion.

There are more thousand vessels that will have little to do in the future if the promises Sp and Ap have fronted in the election campaign and quota notification are broken. It provides good capacity to block ports, fairways and other facilities along the coast at varying times. A blockade that prevents cruise ships and ship traffic, for example to and from Melkøya, will quickly become costly for the state.

The coast is clear for battle. This time we fought for the lives of our communities. The Coastal Fishermen’s Association has not yet participated in planning blockades. But our members will participate, and we will follow up on the requirements for our participation.

We demand that The Storting puts aside the proposal to distribute the third-country quota to the sea fishing fleet and that the Storting consider increasing the allocation to the open group. This is important for the coastal fleet, it is important for the industry and it is important for the fishing-dependent coastal communities. We will hear from 30 April.