Development issues. Its not an issue where i need to go or some local commercial interest from them and they it over or in the rest of the manage it because you cannot keep our climate colds in one place in the or for a while. I know hours eh, so it will become flips. Those are the new stories, the shape that we cannot see International Form on any of them do checkouts. All websites are com, id be discussed and ill be back with another look in around about 30 minutes time. Thanks for watching the 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 can be difficult. So were kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck that way we can start, you know, 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, trying to eliminate the middle there and costs that are associated with as auctions, the distributor the processor, the secondary distributors, i 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 that foods coming from having the relationships with people is coming from. Thats what our menu reflects. Will get Text Messages from amanda before the podium. And im 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 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 boat. So, you know, thats been a huge part of our income and our way of life is how that fish 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. 100. 00 over easy running your on top, the tell medium, slightly running. In other words, you want it perfectly done again. Okay, the family busted to your that as a super jolly guy, hes kind of like buddha, like hes taught me the trade and i think thats really unique. Ive been how the nation since probably 1978 was my 1st year that i seriously went into it the way that we catch how that is. We catch him on whats called long lines and theyre basically a small diameter 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 c for 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 fish and i think its actually better the. So when i started off, you know, youre catching each fish individually, how can line and taken care of them and then just to sell them to a global commodity marketplace and felt kinda incomplete. They had this beautiful fish, and then it just disappears under this will take Global Supply chain, the 20th 11. I saw and some fish to my friend who did a little buying club. And then i went down to the midwest to meet the well that they got my catch. 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 sell my fish directly. I can receive a fair price and people receiving the fish in the midwest getting an incredible product. The low 6 salmon shares. 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. But the vision 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 fascism. Glad right away. Is it showing right away how long it see they spend . 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, does it stay on the pacific is an incredible pushing for small mo, order operators. As it gets late, its not as much challenged by consolidation, but 5 kind of stagnant fish prices in order for us to make it, especially when we need to find a marketplace that really values quality. Theres a growing movement of people wanting to sell their cash directly and theres 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, the small bulk communities across alaska. Work to find solutions by catch from industrial trawlers continues to threaten the halibut 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 it more specific Fishery Management Council is responsible for regulating halibut bycatch across alaskan 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. How that 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 by catch reduction. Youre now well aware of the status of that, however, it stocks in 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 how that killed us by costs 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 are watching us fall or 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 could 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 of the bearing see the new limits are an insult to the many locals to testify. And the total how big population has since seen a decline leaving the future of halibut fishing for local communities in jeopardy and, and say this. You know, were trying to ever see the numbers are going to privatize our fissions corporate, which is happening to Small Businesses this. So you need to are responsible for pushing around paper to support businesses. A lot of times i wish that shares didnt exist. I wish i didnt have to be such a manager. 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 vision the he had some of the i think so. Well i look a nice out. Amanda says other similar models out there that are doing the right thing and i want 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 with bring them there fast. All the restaurant, believe 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. 00 lets we can try what were going to do with that. Thats why. Busy you think youll like being played with after coming up from 200 feet of water . One missing kid. Ok, that was a really good job. The the without china, without the shop. I think the g. 20 be concept. Im to talk visit. Im going to kinda tell you, so why do you the to business when wishing much because you know, uh they were not happy with just trying to port, i absolve the news reports and media and 2 countries that very important walks presidency has made some very important for the citizens in industrial operation for team and had been, oh it is new. Must have gone for the whole far is the the the if youd like a nice, quiet little town. This would be a great place to live. But there are problems that kind of was being a small town in poverty that are unfortunate not just as a small town in america. We absolutely import or perhaps talking about what our Community Needs to keep going. Collectively, we all need to stay in session 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 what the fish stocks were here right at our front door. And we chose on the issue of Marine Reserves that was close to fishing. That was a savings account for our community to essentially serve as a place for the fishing 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 a red fish rock Marine Reserve. Its the Marine Reserve that our group of fishermen put forward. We wanted to integrate our exponential knowledge into choosing where it would be. And then we installed the framework where it would be starting from, heres the Marine Reserve 3 and protected area. And each of the dots is a place where i tagged the fusion released it. I think fundamentally what brought me here, where rockfish said a long generation time, someone would 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, that after tagging the fish goes into this 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 fishing and conservation. Deceptive labeling has become the latest industry we have 74. 00 different species of rock to shop the art in cost. It sold, the snapper. People are willing to accept that there 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. Reason investigations and studies have shown miss labeling sometimes do the error, but on the result of outrage. Broad is ramp in the industry. The same for the labeling in general has been found. Unfortunately to be full of mislabeled and a lot of it is intentional, nestle, 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 in the by happened to be running dna test. They really wouldnt keep doing that. Who fishes matters. And you can actually know your fisherman, the we operate port orford, sustainable seafood, Community Support fishery. We catch our fish. I sit down over night and lock in the fresh desk as fast as you can. Troubles were to pay more for the fish, a fair trade price to create processing jobs and to sell port 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 that 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. This is about 50000 pounds of this at around 20, below transparency is without a doubt, a giant hurdle in the sea from the 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 fish directly and you want to grow your business for a lot of time, your line and other entities to process your fast to ship your fish to deliver your Efficient Companies that may not adhere to your values. And what point you have enough sales enough volume to like build the infrastructure to do everything yourself. Weve process the fisher ourselves. We deliver no trace of all fish ourselves. We can make sure that what spaces 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 of the, this is a new cardiac municipal crane. This allows harbor 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 startup operations. Theyll have an access to the waterfront with what this plan provides. Now you can have a little mom and 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, hearing kodiak, with custom processing, really excited to see the new plan. Just got it 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 an idea of our small boat slate. The opportunity to custom process this throughout the course of the year. I think well be hopefully 12 months of the year as long as theres fish to be caught. 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. Yeah. For the areas casper in geography, she was like in 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 of adaptive station the ive seen with these efforts. There is a back any of success on the way the today. I know it was as longer as visit. Pretty crazy 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 and growing pretty well. Theyre in a really short time, and theres only so much you can shuffle fish around in the refrigerated man. There we go. I think we can have your own cold storage. Well leave you a day and having more flexibility to do our work. Im looking forward to this, this would be nice. We have a close to 3000. 00 followers on facebook. I never thought it wouldnt 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 and keep doing that the, the systems are going anywhere. Are 2 choices make it work for us or to fail. What the difference is is making an example for all theres a ball that defies that system. The battle for me now is not in washington dc anymore. Its not in town, so 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 is threat. Hope that our fisheries will, once again thrive with possibilities still exist among those who continued theres Different Levels of challenge to watch them and make us work in the small mo fisheries. Providing that all the traceable market is absolutely key cars environment. At this point. The combination 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 the challenge one term for protecting fist is a more complete understanding of the system, recognizing the importance of habitat and managing as if we are in the only predators thats taking fish out of the seats, building direct connections between fishermen and the public. Thats great for, for not ultimately shifting policies and its all for nothing. How can we leverage that network of people who care about where the sea food comes from so that were protecting Community Based fishermen who we believe are poised to be the best stewards of the ocean . Thats really ultimately what we need. It is going to be around for the long run the of the, i dont think that i could ever, as a writer really capture the experience that is 1025 percent of your income. Roughly, theres someone thats at home probably enjoying retired and watching the wheel of fortune or murder. Shes such shrewd, shrewd points about the way in which the old world fits together in the middle r squared in the middle is got a lot of steam wrist, monica, your t. V shows the misbehaving, very upset. This film cd t