We start really slow just tearing up with 6 or 7 restaurants. Right now basically using my sedan here as our means of transportation which can be difficult. So were kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck that way we can start, you know, adding on more clients because theres a lot of people in the area that want access to all of our fresh motivation was to find a way to make a direct connection from the boat to the people that are going to eat the fish. And by doing so, trying to eliminate the middle man costs that are associated with the auctions, the distributor, the processor, the secondary distributors that bring it to restaurants and then the grocery store. And then the people that you know, are working at the counter trying to make it so that the boats getting a fair price, not based on international markets, but based on what it takes to have a livelihood. The, i dont like to use the word locals. I like to use the word intelligently, a little more knowing where thats who its coming from, having the relationships with the people its coming from. Thats what our menu reflects. Will get Text Messages from amanda before the podium, saying that heres whats coming in. What do you want . The qualities definitely there as well as depression we also been able to open up the doors to new areas for delivery. Working with us, they know exactly what theyre going to get. That same high quality fish every single time the to my families and how efficient for a really long time. My mom was pregnant with me still long lying. And i grew up on long line boats. So, you know, thats been a huge part of our income and our way of life is how theyre fishing, and theres really nothing else like it as far as a really hard manual labor. And a lot of the fish are, you know, twice my size. So it is pretty wild when you get those big fish, but it is very gratifying. One eggs over easy running your from top to, to medium, slightly running. In other words, you want to perfectly done again. Ok, the family busted to your my dad is a super jolly guy and hes kind of like buddha, like hes taught me the trade and i think thats really unique drive and how that vision sense. Probably 1978 was my 1st year that i seriously went into it the way that we catch of it is we catch them on whats called long lines. And theyre basically a small diameter, a role that plays on the bottom. And we have a large truck in on that hope we have other fish. That means is the quality standards for sea food is change. People demand a Higher Quality fish. My son marsh started out as a young boy efficient with me, and i think he had higher standards, right from the beginning. He has a new way of treating sion. I think its actually better the so when i started off, you know, youre catching each fish individually. How can live in taken care of them and then just to sell them to a global commodity marketplace and felt kind of incomplete. They had this beautiful fish, and then it just disappears under this will pick Global Supply chain, the 20th 11. I sold some fish to my friend who did a little buying club. And then i went down to the midwest to meet the people that they got my catch. And they were super excited about the quality and where it came from. It was like an ah ha moment of, well, theres a better way where i can saw my fish directly. I can receive a fair price and people receiving the session, the midwest getting an incredible product. Was the same as yours. Yeah. Uh, what uh, what are you looking for . What are you looking to do . Any kind of directory, consumer fish business is really difficult and that the amount of capital it takes to get started just to have all the services visually need ice made access to their catch, be able to offload it, be able to take their full loads of fish all these things are, are really challenging here last year when youre trying to produce perfect fish, every single step matters, how the fisherman catches the fascist and blood right away. Is it shown right away how long it see this band . And then how quickly is that fish full aid and frozen and how as frozen is really important to and then once its frozen household, this is stay on. The sink is an incredible pushing for small mo, owner operators successfully. Its not as much challenged by consolidation, but by kind of stagnant fish prices. In order for us to make it, especially when we need to find a marketplace that really values of quality. Theres a growing movement of people wanting to sell their cash directly. And as a Consumer Base that really supports that. So i think that in the future well have more, more efficient, you know, connecting directly with 2 peaks or fish. The small boat communities across alaska work to find solutions by catch from industrial trawlers continues to threaten the how with that population the hell of it, fishermen have taken Big Productions in their quota. They are in serving and you really cant have a healthy, sustainable resource unless all sectors, everybody involved, the sharing and conserving that resource. Wave fisheries are changing. Its the way our country is changing. Its increasingly harder for Small Businesses to make the North PacificFishery Management Council is responsible for regulating how the bycatch across the last can fisheries. Today, the council is voting on limits for the industrial translate, the hello council. My name is john scale and ive been a small boat held at long liner for just about exactly 40 years. And since that time ive made uh at least 50 percent of my yearly income and up to maybe 90 percent on the pallet. So id like to request that when you vote, you vote for the maximum bi catch reduction. Youre now well aware of the status of the how, of at stocks and the need for conservation. Youve heard from a lot of people, the exploitable biomass is near historical levels. Growth rates have dropped. Were still seeing over 3000000 pounds of juvenile halibut killed us by cost and the varying see the people dependent on the how that resource are the ones that are plummeting and were, were calling out to you. Those who are watching us fall are either enjoying the view or missing. The fact that were about to hit the bottom everybody is living in denial here and because of big money, i mean thats, so thats the only way i can see this thing not happening was because of the amount of money that is generated from the fisheries out in the bearing see, i hope you guys are hearing me while the council did approve of bycatch reduction in the bearing see, the new limits are an insult to the many locals to testify. And the total held with population has since seen a decline, leaving the future of halibut fishing for local communities in jeopardy and say this you know where the, the numbers are going. Privatize make our decisions which has happened to Small Businesses this. So you need to are responsible for pushing or how to support businesses. A lot of times i wish that shares didnt exist. I wish i didnt have to be such a manager. Say how passionate you are by the hopefully weve driven home the point to them that theres landlords in this space. Are you making a lot of money . All politics aside, i just want to be able to go fishing and keep the money i make not paying someone go i thing and check. Well, hes not visit the he had some of the i think so. Well i look a nice out, amanda. Theres other similar models out there that are doing the right thing and i wanted to be like we are the proof and the important good that we didnt do some of this work as a father takes you know, some of the time i have messed with him i really hope to have him involved. Right. Lets bring him there fast. All the restaurant, police or anyone else in the fall . I got it done. You have the skills . Yeah. Because thats what i do for what im going to take you on a card. First thing trip this here, a little more peasy. 13 lets we can try what were gonna do with them. This way with them you think youll like being played with after coming up from 200 feet of water. One messing kid. Ok, that was a really good job. The i look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. A robot must obey the orders given by human beings except were so shorter is that conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. We should be very careful about visual intelligence. The point obviously, is to place a trust rather than to the area. I mean, with the Artificial Intelligence we have summoning the payment, the robot must protect this phone existence with alexis the, the, if you like, a nice, quiet little town. This would be a great place to live. But there are problems in a small town in poverty that are unfortunate. Its not just us a small town in america. We absolutely import or perhaps talk about what our Community Needs to keep going. Collectively, we all need to stay and vision so that we can keep the infrastructure. We have an economy that we have for community. Early on we understood that we needed local science that we need to understand with the fish tanks were here right at our front door. And we took on the issue of Marine Reserves that was close to fishing. That was a savings account for our community that essentially serves as a place for the fish and go and goes fish can reproduce, and we can keep a healthy fisheries. This place is so amazing. This cluster of rocks right out here is red fish rocks marine resort of its the Marine Reserve that our group of fishermen put forward. We wanted to integrate our exponential knowledge engine choosing where it would be. And then we installed a framework where it would be studied and heres the Marine Reserve being protected area. And each of the dots is a place where i tagged the fish and released it. I think fundamentally what brought me here, where rockfish said a long generation time, someone went to be over a 100 years old. And when they get over fish like they were back in the seventys, eightys fishermen here wanted to be proactive. They wanted to get out in front of the issue they drew the line and they presented those boundaries to the state. And thats what led to read for shocks. So theres a little transmitter, basically was implanted and efficient abdomen after tagging, the 1st goes into his cage. When we get down to say 4050 feet door pops open, fish swims away and now were tracking it. Weve found a perfect synergy between people who have a careers worth of knowledge about fish in the ocean. And weve connected them with the technology of a Research Institution like o, s u, that kind of negotiation is how you get to where youre trying to go. When youre trying to do conservation in a community thats dependent on resources, the abundant stocks are important. I mean, who wants to fish the last fish, the way of communities like port orford work to find the balance between the fishing and conservation. Deceptive labeling has become the latest industry we have 74 different species and rocked and shop the or does it solve a snapper . The people are willing to accept that their fishes ministry, fish van you know, who cares anymore about the small guy. A new reports as many fish providers are playing a shell game with suppliers. Recent investigations and studies have shown miss labeling, sometimes due to error, but on the results of outraged fraud is ramp in the industry. The safer the labeling in general has been found unfortunately to be full of mislabeled and a lot of it is intentional invest labeling. There been a number of studies where people just go in, they buy fish and fish markets that are said to be Something Like red snapper, and then they do dna test and they find that its not red snapper us solution to the fraud in seaford is better enforcement where somebody who was coming into by happened to be running dna test, they really wouldnt keep doing that. To fishes matters and you can actually know your fisherman, the we operate port, orford, sustainable seafood, a Community Supported fishery. We catch our fish, i sit down overnight and lock in the fresh desk as fast as you can for goals for to pay more for the fish, a fair trade price to create processing jobs, and to sell puerto efficient port orford. You couldnt buy local fish and efficient town and that felt fundamentally wrong. So the chief, the goal of raising the price on fish, so the other buyers have come up to meet our price as well, and then well go up again. So we can stay in business this is where all the fish from alaska comes directly is about 50000 pounds. At around 20, below the transparency is without a doubt, a giant hurdle in the sea Food Supply Chain and a small operations with the right intentions grow and scale. Its an issue that must be addressed if youre trying to expand from selling your own fest directly and you want to grow your business for a lot of time, you rely and other entities to process your fast to ship your fish to deliver your Fresh Companies that may not adhere to your values. And what point do you have enough sales enough volume to like build the infrastructure to do everything yourself. Weve processed the fisher songs, we deliver traceable fashion, ourselves. And we can make sure that west peace is officially south, is the one that is on the name. Thats a beautiful thing, and i want to keep that growing and keep, tell me the, this is the new kodiak municipal crane. This allows harper users independent access to the waterfront without having to go through a Large Industrial processor. Weve been fighting for this for between 30 and 40 years. There can be no start up operations without having access to the waterfront with what this plan provides. Now you can have a little longer pop processor thats, you know, a couple blocks in land. This is the Kodiak Island wild source facility. We hope to serve the small boat fleet, here in kodiak, with custom processing. Really excited to see the new plan discounted up and running. Right . Yeah. Just a week ago. So this is our roll stock packaging machine plus 1000 pounds in our we can run through here. This is on the year of our small boat slate. The opportunity to custom processes throughout the course of the year. I think all the hopefully 12 months of the year as long as theres fish to be caught that you guys helped us get to the point that we are today. And we wanna be partners in success with you guys. All the basics are here for sure. A new era for darias casper, in geography, she was like the battle for access to the waterfront and fishing. Ultimately determine whether its possible to make a living. We need to capitalize on value and get some adapters to issue the ive seen with these efforts. There is a back a, the success on the way the today. I know we want fish longer is visit pretty crazy and our was changed in the business for us. We bought a 2nd truck, a bigger truck, 2nd boat from the end or 2. We also have several full time employees now. They believe in one i believe in, and im having fun doing what im doing. The sink. We got cooking, weve grown pretty well. Theyre in a really short time and theres always so much you can shuffle fish around in a refrigerated man. There we go. I think we can have your own cold storage. Well, leave a day and having more flexibility to do our work. Im looking forward to this. This will be nice. We have close to 3000 followers on facebook. I never thought it would be at that point and never thought it was possible. We do work in our community. We do everything that you would want a Small Business to do, to keep doing at the the systems arent going anywhere. So i have 2 choices. Make it work for us or to fail what the difference is is making an example for others. A ball that defies on system battle for me now is not in washington dc anymore. Its not been council meetings. Its on my boat and into businesses. We work with the, the future of small Scale Fishers and seen our hands as consumers, the value they bring to coastal communities, and their stewardship to the ocean will only remain if we commit to supporting and while their service, the society is under threat. That our fisheries will, once again thrive with possibilities still exist among those who continued theres Different Levels of challenge to whats going to make us work in the small mo fisheries. Providing that all the traceable market is absolutely key cars environment. At this point. The combinations of small Scale Fisheries and robust management thats kind of ideal. As far as fully employing people and fully making use as a resource, the ocean is still capable of producing and sustaining an unbelievable amount of life and in us waters. We have started to let it do that and it shows the message i would leave to you is the importance of not giving up the importance of working together and also the importance of taking care of your corner of the ocean. I think that you, ellens long term for protecting fist acts as a more complete understanding of the ecosystem. Recognizing the importance of habitat and managing as if we are in the only predators thats taking fish out of receipt, building direct connections between fishermen and the public. Thats great for the for not ultimately shifting policies and its all for nothing. 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