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Here hold especially for me and the other one, reading consolidation and privatization of the new england fishing industry has made it nearly impossible for fishers working on a small scale to make a live. Tim rider is one of the few jig, both fishermen remained back then we got watch the people of 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, as 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 taken away from me. And they dont see that thats not in their pie charts and their flow charts and their circle graphs, scientists and their science. But i do the, the, the, the, the small coastal fishing communities. Do we even need the small mom and pop operators . I think a lot of people are concerned about this. The white, raging industry series of the United States on one side are people with deep roots 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 heavy 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 to your place. The sea Food Supply Chain is long and fragmented with little account of billing. 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, but even with catch that is brought in by small scale. Fissures is the value and there minimal profits are diminished. The industrialization of the seaford system is mimicking industrialization of our land. Basically 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 such as 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 in coastal america, like we have never seen the. I started in 1983 this year with my father on the on that site on the south end. Or is that much my childhood . Thats all exactly the same as a kid does. When he goes out in the lake and the canoe and his vision for a pan fish 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 is a fraction of that of its industrial counterparts. But its quickly becoming lost. Our various casper sac is one of the few jake fishermen, west and cody. Jake brushing is one of the older, especially if not the oldest vision in the world. That is essence, its a line flowing out in the water with a couple of, of some very selective. You get over a school and if its not the right fish, then you can quickly move you know, a lot of its just time and the tides, right. And, and the winds see the fish in there were underneath the score. Raise it up little bit. The past its dusty rock this the over 95 percent the rockfish coming out of alaska is all troll. Now that means its called a large snaps with what they call rock hopper here. That drags on the bottom with these big tires that roll over rocks and knives tearing down pinnacles, caring out for catching a lot of rockfish at once for as well as other spaces 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, but also all the fish that are living in that particular area. Generally speaking, a smaller scale operations, well managed is going to have less Collateral Damage than a large trawler that is part of trying area. Over efficient you reached a critical level in International Waters in the late eightys with the use of a new generation of unimaginably long. Thats 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 caught everything. 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 a allocation issue. The guy liked him, right . A lot susan. They were running 80 miles to be able to catch a fish and a 30 foot vault. And question so many a night. So i went home wondering if this guy was coming back. These young guys, you know, the time this gets the fisheries going and then pushed out and 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 some votes here and built from scratch. One piece you know, from a mold all the way through the finished product. The next step, once its done as well, launch the mode, see trial, it get the kinks, worked out and then go fishing boats like teams costs 2. 00 to 300000. 00. And every trippy takes cost to me 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 for 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, the fishing is peaks and valleys. Pretty fix can kind of like the sharp, i guess the in the 1990. So need for conservation was finally acknowledged in new management and fisheries was established. Until then fissures were all raising to catch the same fish at the same time. To address these issues. A style called catch share management was established and quickly took hold on basically a fan of catch shares in a certain configuration, which is the person who fishes owns a share of the allowed cash. They dont own a share of the fish in the ocean. But when the catch limit is set, they own a share of that catch. What im not in favor of is you can only share the catch and then you can sell that to somebody else or lease 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 foot boat that employees for 2 or 3 people in the sun. And then a couple of guys on short run and fish around. You can save you 25 percent of your problem. I dont really either breaking even of 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 founders. Hes getting roughly 175000. 00 a year. So thats pretty good. Anyone at home is making money and a lot of it, it has nothing to do with the business sucks catches for kindly gamble. 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. Then were looking at a wal mart situation on the ocean. Why dont you just give us the names of the 5 of 7 guys, especially all of this market. It is going in the private hands. I think overtime, the next logical inheritors of this resource are going to be corporations. For those to our on our setup, weve had enough with policies design to consolidate policies designed to privatize design to squeeze out are independent fishermen to join mean walking out. Were going to walk in and tell the public and sign of life. And whats been happening here. 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 economy is that depend on these working waterfront 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 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 you alignment of the patient. We should be very careful about our personal intelligence at the point, obviously, is to trace a trust, rather than fit the various job. I mean, with the Artificial Intelligence we have summoning the theme in the most protect this phone existence was alexis the 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 safer in their eyes. 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 a 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 that over there is the rest, the cannery row where you see the remaining processors, mostly all large corporate entities. Things that really consolidated the afternoon. And various caspar zach a local fisherman home for data kodiak. Im also a president of the alaska jake 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 resources. 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 of 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 is here. Its pretty intense. One of 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 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 about this is the goal that are if the plan is over time to have 10 big boats on the west coast that catch 95 percent of the if a, 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 Timber Industry and fishing. Its 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 hope, the life person and we all use the same type of gear. It prevents us all from growing into the other sectors of tall and towing. Thats 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 bo. 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 offer. I mean its a big dam deal if that goes away it will just lead 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 rich as 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 fisher declining halibut stocks has meant that native fisheries have had to reduce their cash in the interest of maintaining the fish population right now i have 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 this the kind of the day we want to have right here the over the years seattle based charlton has been operating in the bearings. C. Like in simians, backyard. Us catch shares of how women in alaska are limited to hooked and lines fixtures. So when these trawlers accidentally catch how the wind fishing for other species, theyre forced to throw the fish back 5 and theyre usually dead. These unintentionally cost fish are known as bi catch. 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. And america is going to be able to come up here and dish. No, not right. The delivering fee, the bycatch is accounting for almost all of whats available to be taken of the halibut stock. These are industrial, but its or district water boats to fully prosecute their fishery and the most economical way to go out there, set their nets, do 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. They one of the really great things about this bike has issue is it unites groups because its really important to everybody, the cares about the halibut resource. Linda bank and the fisher herself is the director of the alaska long lines fishermans association. In the early ninetys, she led the fires in which local communities successfully band trolling in Southeast Alaska. We had stuff in here, fishermen prowl ocean weaving waste in wake despite hunger. Hows that for headlines . 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 rafters and the black had and how of it. So this is the line of their catch per unit effort. So how much they were cap things per toe when they were trawling for this species of rock fish co Pacific Ocean perch. And then this is what was happening to the abundance of that fish. As a big part of our concern in the early ninetys, a u. S. 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 ford sco, wrangle, g, 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 motion pack 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 Marine Fisheries Service and from the troll 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 ban 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 surface gets lost in the shuffle, where of, you know, against a 100000 pounds of fish quality doesnt matter. Ive been told that by the buyers, why are you going to pay top dollar for my fish when you can buy Something Else and just label it whatever of the for over a century the us is celebrated the efficiency in affordability of an industrial system that processes and preserves massive amounts of food for consumers. Thats included. See, and today theres an intricate International Supply chain. The provides us with cheap fish, put the costs to the oceans, the fish, the small scale fissures and the consumer or staggering is more than one good way to 3 to fit the main problem with the, with seaFood Supply Chain to 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 putting up a fish. But why it keeps a flashlight spring queen. Thanks a lot. Higher quality products 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 and realize there needed to be more options. And it coincided perfectly with meeting 10 and session on the phone. 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 c food, were kind of losing that new fishmonger is our idea directly selling fish throughout new englands 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. There was something around 10 hours ago which we can do pod, sustainably, the direct market approach. It has this differences are gonna walk in with a box of fish off the boat. 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