Fishing Quota Calculator

In quota-managed fisheries, regulators set a Total Allowable Catch (TAC) for the season and then divide it among rights-holders according to quota shares — this calculator does that division for you. Your individual quota is simply your share of the total shares outstanding, applied proportionally to the TAC: (your shares ÷ total shares) × TAC, expressed in both tonnes and kilograms, alongside your share as a straight percentage of the fishery. From there it estimates two ways you could realize value from that quota. Revenue potential is what you'd earn landing your full quota at the given price per kilogram — effectively a best-case, full-utilization figure that assumes you can actually catch and sell every kilogram you're allocated.

Lease value is the alternative: many quota systems allow shares to be leased out to other fishers for a per-kilogram rate, letting a quota holder monetize an allocation without ever putting a boat on the water. The "fishing vs. lease" figure is simply the gap between those two — the incremental revenue from fishing your quota yourself rather than leasing it away — but it's a gross comparison only: it doesn't subtract the fuel, crew, and gear costs of actually going fishing (see the Fishery Economics calculator for that side of the ledger), so the real breakeven between fishing and leasing is narrower than this number alone suggests. Quota share values and TAC levels also change season to season as regulators respond to stock assessments, so treat both inputs as figures to update each year rather than fixed constants.