To have the same opportunity to experience fishing the way i did. And thats the saddest thing about this industry. Were bickering and arguing over microphones. You know what Council Meetings are in the press for suffers the most is a little kid that might not have a chance to go fishing or pursue his dream. All these things are doing, my son are taking away from me. And they dont see that thats not in their pie charts and their flow charts and their circle graphs for scientists and their science. But i do the, the, the small coastal fishing communities. Do we even need the small bomb and the operators . I think a lot of people are concerned about this, the twice as raging industry stories of the United States on one side are people with deep boots in coastal fishing communities on the other. Or the wealthy owners of industrial fishing operations, who use their political and economic power to dominate the industries. The losers in this battle were small scale fissures. The fish and the oceans fishes, one of the most highly traded commodities on the planet. The average piece of fish changes hands about 7 times between the moment of capture and the moment gets tear place the the sea Food Supply Chain is long and fragmented with little accountability. The biggest losers in this broken system are the consumers who have no idea where their fish comes from, or often even what it really is safely. Labeling in general has been found. Unfortunately, to be full of miss labeling. The system is so tilted in favor of industrial fishing that even with catch, that is brought in by small scale. Fissures is the value and there are minimal, profits are diminished. The industrialization of the seaford system is mimicking industrialization of our land base food system. Were seeing the squeeze and displacement of family fishermen and were seeing a collapse of infrastructure. And once that infrastructure is gone, it will never come back. This was the foundation, not just of a regional economy political way of life. And it was an envelope of what was best about america, how people that were willing to work hard and come here and struggle could make it better lives for their children. Were looking at a shift and coastal america, like we have never seen the the, the, i started in 1983 this year with my father on the, on that site on the south end. Or its not much my childhood. That bill, exactly the same as a kid does when he goes out in the lake and the canoe and his vision for a parent, this with a rod and reel, is that kind of a feeling the school right there . The jeep goes fishing is one of the most sustainable methods of catching fish and its impact on ocean ecosystems. As a fraction of that, if its industrial counterparts, but its quickly becoming lost. Our various caspar zach is one of the few jig fishermen west and cody technician is one of the older, especially if not the oldest vision in the world. That is essence. Its a line going down. The water with a couple of ups are very selective to get over school. And if its not the right fish, then you can quickly move you know, a lot of is just timing the tides. Right. And and the winds see the fish and there were underneath the score. Raise it up a little bit. The past you know, does to your office the over 95 percent . The rock this coming out of alaska is all for all going. That means its called a large snaps, what they call rock hopper here. Thats the phrase on the bottom with these big tires that roll over rocks and knives tearing down pinnacles, tearing out for catching a lot of rockfish at ones foot, as well as other spaces kind of trying when its done in its worst form, has a leveling effect and it has a tendency to really just sort of strip away everything thats there, the carls and find it for me, but also all the fish that are living in that particular area. Generally speaking of smaller scale operations, well managed is going to have less Collateral Damage than a large trawler that is part of drawing in areas over efficient. Youve reached a critical level in International Waters in the late eighties with the use of a new generation of unimaginably long next that stretched for miles. There were a 1000 boats fishing in the pacific with high seas drifting nets, 40000 miles of netting in the Pacific Ocean. Every night. They caught millions of birds, dolphins, wales, turtles. They Court Everything and thats why, by the ninetys, somebody like me would feel motivated to be involved in overhauling the whole thing. I got photographed and went to the new york times. It instantly blew up. It was in newspapers all around the world. The United Nations did finally ban those things from that fishing became a conservation issue, not just of allocation issue. The guy liked him ride glasses and they were running is 80 miles to the l. A. Test f. As in a 30 footfall same question. So many a night, so i went home wondering if this guy was coming back. These young guys, you know, the time is getting official, raise it all and then pushed out and then pushed out. Whos one of the few guys as i see, puts in the extra effort he just loves it, and im glad he is going on big about of the votes here and built from scratch. One piece, you know, from a mold all the way to the finished product. The next step, once its done as well, launch the mode, see trial it get the kinks worked out and then uh go fishing boats like teams costs 2. 00 to 300000. 00. And every trippy takes cost them around 500. 00 on a good day. He might land a few 1000. 00 worth of fish, but thats before he pays his crew. On a bad day, he might not even cover his expensive the news. Theres so many times of life where you people dont believe in what theyre doing or they just go through the motions. Im passionate about when i do, im proud of the fact that we have a minimal footprint where we go. I know if i hit the powerball for 40000000. 00 or a 1000000000. 00 or whatever it is, i knew exact same thing im doing right now. Tomorrow the fishing is peaks and valleys. Pretty 6 can kind of like the sharps i guess the in the 1990. So need for conservation was finally acknowledged, and new management and fisheries was established. Until then phishers were all racing to catch the same fish at the same time. To address these issues, a style called catch share management was established and quickly to a colt. Im basically a fan of catch shares in a certain configuration which is the person who fishes owns a share of the allowed catch. They dont own a share of the fish in the ocean, but when the catch limit is set, they own a share of that cat, which what im not in favor of is you can only share the catch. And then you can sell that to somebody else, or at least that to somebody else. And you sit back in a chair and make money off what somebody else is doing. Thats not an improvement on anything. I mean for a 36. 00 foot boat, the employees for 2 or 3 people in the sun and then a couple of guys on short run and fish around. You can take a 25 percent on your problem are really either breaking even or losing money. Businesses like tens, he has to pay a landlord essentially for those fish. Fishermen dont need landlords. They need to be able to go fishing for me and another fisherman that i know for leasing out the flanders. Hes getting roughly what 75000. 00 is here. So thats pretty good. Anyone at home is making money and a lot of it, it has nothing to do with the business. Sucks the cashiers for kindly campbell, some people did become fantastic stewards of of those resources. But unfortunately, a lot of people just became landlords, and they started renting access to go to work to the people who catch fish for a living. It opens the door for the pocketed sorts, if you will, to be the next inheritors. The resource is a majority of the permits and quote, a can be bought by only a few companies and were looking at a wal mart situation on the ocean. Why dont you just give us the names of the 5 or 7 guys on, especially all of this market, it is going into private hands. And i think overtime the next logical inheritors of this resource are going to be corporations. For those who are are fed up. Weve had enough with policies design to consolidate policies designed to privatize designed to squeeze out or independent fishermen. Please join me and walking out. Were going to walk in and tell the public and sign of life and whats been happening, or they voted today to allow for 7 entities to control this whole fishery. That type of consolidation, that type of concentration of ownership. Its kurtz, our local economies that depend on these working water friends, and we need to go up the chain. We need to have accountability in this process. And this is a work. And theres a select few people at the top that are making all the money. And theyre making the rules and benefit themselves the a hi, im receptive and im here to plan with you whatever you do. Do not watch my new show. Seriously. Why watch something thats so different. Whitelisted opinions that he wont get anywhere else. Welcome to please, or do you have the state department to see i a weapons bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. Choose your fax for you. Go ahead. Change and whatever you do. Dont want my show, say main street, because im probably going to make you, im comfortable. My show is called stretching time, but again, you probably dont want to watch it because it might just change the way. Instead the we are in august on one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse regions on the entire planet. As you make your way through, douglas don, you will discover each region is known for its own unique arts and traditions. The privatization came about for how that at that point i was only in my mid twenties. I didnt really see it as a threat. I figured, yeah, will make the fishery say for, and there are always any guys to catch it. So yeah, maybe its a good thing. I didnt know here too. After that i could not get a job. So i was basically shut out of the how that fishery that really was the beginning of the end for the happy days and the small boat fleet, and kodiak. This is basically the waterfront of code. Yeah. All the way down there is the boat yard for small boats. And over there is the rest, the cannery row where you see the remaining processors, mostly all large corporate entities. Things are really become consolidated the afternoon. And various caspar that a local fisherman home for data kodiak. Im also a president of the last to jig association who im representing today. We do not support any new Management Program in the gulf of allows control sector, which monetize us the fishery resource. The future of our Fishing Community depends on access of the fishery resource. Please maintain opportunity for the next generation of fishermen. Thank you. Thank you. There is the fishery management is the responsibility, the Regional Councils across the United States. Some have chosen not to use the catch here system and seek other solutions for conservation management. This is the port of port orford. Its one of the very few. Dolly ports they call them where youre both stay on trailers and youre actually lifted in by crane into the open ocean. The. This is how we do it here. Its pretty intense. For the most unique things about port orford is were restricted in both size. 40 feet and under 50 ton and under everybody has different opinions and theyre independent of course. But because we have so much in common, what benefits need benefits . My brother, the biggest threat we have against the small boat community is kind of multi faceted. The consolidation of the quota and the corporate mindset that wants to get the fish for nothing. It doesnt really take into account the needs of a small community. So this is why i bought this as the gold and i, if the plan is over time to have 10 big boats on the west coast that catch 95 percent of the food. You know, i mean, that seems extreme, but its not out of the question. The Community Port orford is pretty unique. Population is 1200. Between the temper industry and fishing. Thats what its all been about around here. This is the furthest west Incorporated Town in the continental 40. And then you buy a boat and you go further west. The everybody is a live person and we all use the same type of gear. It prevents us all from growing into the other sectors of trauma and telling that the port orford fleet is limited to 40 votes, all restricted in their size and equipment. They carry with each boat holding a valuable fishing in the permit system. The permits are tied to the boat. If you dont have somebody to pass that on to in your family, you have to sell it in order to get the money. You need to make a 3 year goal in years. The permits do leave out of 4, offered its less revenue for the whole town. Every facet of business in this town is affected solely by our fish. We land between 4. 00 and 5000000. 00 worth of seafood here in port offered i mean its a big dam deal. If that goes away it will just leave the place dry. So it really has a lot to do with the health and wellness of the community to be able to have access to the fish. Were right here. I mean, were looking at some of the richest grounds in the world. Could you imagine not having access to that for a community . See me in the former mayor of Saint Paul Island lives in a community of 400 people solely dependent on fish. Declining halibut, stocks has meant that native fisheries have had to reduce their cash in the interest of maintaining the fish population. Right now ive probably 3 strings. Im a little, im a little frustrated but weve got 4 strings of the weve got a couple of good size like right now. So the only that live that this kind of day we want to have right here the over the years. Seattle base 12th food has been operating in the bearings. See right in simeon backyard, us catch shares of halibut and alaska are limited to hooked in line fishers. So when these trawlers accidentally catch how the wind fishing for other species, therefore to throw the fish back 5 and theyre usually dead. These unintentionally cause fish are known as bike, which there should be no way. We should be shut down because we live right here that everybody else that comes out of wherever they come from in america is going to be able to come up here and dish. No, no, right, the see the bike, which is accounting for almost all of whats available to be taken of the hell of it stuff. These are industrial, but its are distant water boats to fully prosecute their fishery and the most economical way to go out there, set their nets due on toes and just drove it side what they are allowed to keep the costs to them of during those how better of the size just costs doing business. Thanks for come in, say one of the really great things about this bycatch issue is it unites groups cuz its really important to everybody that cares about the how that resource linda bank. And the fisher herself is the director of the alaska long lines fishermans association. In the early ninetys, she led the fight in which local communities successfully band trolling in Southeast Alaska. Sunny and stuff in here. Fishermen prowl ocean, leaving waist in wake despite hunger. Hows that for his line . The fisherman of Southeast Alaska had a long term concern about trolling. Having watched the 4 inflates, operate right off our coast and huge decline and the eco system, and the raffish, and the black hat and how of it. So this is the line of their catch per unit effort. So how much they were catching per tow when they were trolling for this species of rock fisco, Pacific Ocean perch. And then this is what was happening to the abundance of that fish. Thats a big part of our concern. In the early ninetys, a us trawler came through here, then took enough rock fish as bycatch to close down one of our local fisheries. Or fishermen came to me and said if you can do one thing for Southeast Alaska and will be, you know, to close this area to drawing towards co wrangell. Do you know every community in se, passed a resolution in support of the closure and submitted them all with the council . It was a very emotion packed time. We were pretty inflammatory and no surprise people thought we were a little overboard with what we said. There was a huge pushback from National MarineFisheries Service and from the travel industry i know easily at the time was sure that with this much support from communities in small but freshman, the counselor would do the right thing. It took another 5 years before they took action to close trolling. It was the largest troll van in the world at that time. It was a huge grass roots effort started by the fisherman, but it ended up involving everybody from the bottom to the top. The or the is a 4 surface gets lost in the shuffle. Where of, you know, against a 100000 pounds of fish quality doesnt matter. Ive been told thats why the buyers, why are you going to pay top dollar for my fish when you can buy Something Else and just label it whatever the for over a century the us as celebrated the efficiency in affordability of an industrial system. That processes and preserves massive amounts of food for consumers thats included in today. Theres an intricate International Supply chain. The provides us with cheap fish, but the costs to the oceans. The fish, the small scale fissures and the consumer or staggering is more than one good way to treat the main problem with the, with the seaFood Supply Chain is set up right now, is that since that changes hands so many times, every time it changes hands a little bit of value is lost for the fisherman, the cleaning of the fish that way. It keeps the flash nice and clean. Thanks a lot Higher Quality product prior to going out on the finland or i was doing, were creating a mobile app trying to connect people with local c food options. And during that time working on that project, i realize there needed to be more options and it coincided perfectly with meeting 10 and session on about the the this is not typical in the industry where the captain does a lot of delivering. And the captain is a fish car to get really sad to think about this area, having relied upon their fisheries and with a lot of the important sea food, were kind of losing that new fish mongers. Our ideas, directly selling fish throughout new england is kind of re establish what new england sci fi really is. We want to have the ability to have a fish on our customers plate that was swimming around 10 hours ago, which we can do prod, sustainably, direct market approach. It has this differences are gonna walk in with the market, the fish off the boat. Were not going to have suit and tie and fancy delivery chines the who what else they just dont have to shape out the application and engagement because the trail when so many find themselves will support we choose to look so Common Ground the the russian states never is as tight as one of the most sense Community Best english. Ill send some of the keys to progress be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the russia to day and supports the r t. Suppose next. Even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services for what question did you say to steve and quickly check the question . The leads and theyre playing media of media clear the green proxy war is all about weakening and eventually destroying russias military capacities. This is why there is no good faith appeals about it negotiate in 10 to the conflict. They have chosen another forever war we started really slow just tearing up with 6 or 7 restaurants. Right now basically using my sedan here as our means of transportation, which certainly difficult. So were kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck and start, you know, adding on more clients because theres a lot of people in the area that want access to all of our fresh fish 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 trans to eliminate the middleman. It 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 local. 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 body