Production Quota

A production quota is a cap on output, in aquaculture a limit on the tonnage a farm or region may produce in a year, set to control environmental load rather than fishing pressure. Regulators tie it to carrying-capacity limits on nutrient discharge, sea-lice, and disease in a water body. Norway licenses salmon production by maximum allowed biomass per site and manages growth through its traffic-light system that opens or closes capacity by zone on sea-lice status. The instrument differs from a catch quota: it bounds farmed supply, not removals from a wild stock.