In the low to know and but is look to that to, to that is not showing interest. I think it is showing interest. And uh, why dont the reason why do so in the interest of, of course not smoke to know team is not joining now, but i think it subscribes to see because of the objectives you see the objects. And so the of the big c c small about trying to see how the country shouldnt do that will be going on because you see, and that is what you also terms then. Yeah, subscribes to, so its very much interested to is interested it because of the objectives. I think it offers that, that it may have benefits for briggs africa whines to develop, creating the one way over the middle, feed me civil trades. And its true if youre good to africa tradition, itd been, uh, wed been trading with the, with the waste land by to we always look for for either trading for tonight. And there is briggs. I think it offers an alternative to the buttons. The multi paula world is here to stay with dozens of countries once and to join bricks and already making moves to trade and national currencies. And also the dollar was some people referring to todays Brooks Family as the world of dollarization coalition . Well, we have more facts and figures in our special coverage on the 15th annual break summit in south africa right here on archie international. Dont miss it. 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 are very difficult. So were kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck and 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 man costs that are associated with the auction, 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 up 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 body. 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, the of the my families when how efficient for a really long time. My mom was pregnant with me still long lying. And i grew up on long land boat. So, you know, thats been a huge part of our income and our way of life is how that ration 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 top, the toes medium, slightly running. In other words, you want it perfectly done again. Ok. I just busted to your my dad is a super jolly guy. Hes kind of like buddha, like hes taught me the trade and i think thats really unique. Ive been how that vision since probably 1978 was my 1st year that i seriously went into it. The way that we catch of it 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 seen for this 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 training session. 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 whole pig 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 wow, theres a better way where i can sell my fish directly. I can receive their price and people receiving the session. And then were asking an incredible product. The lowest exam chairs. Yeah. Uh, what uh, what are you looking for . What are you looking to do . Any kind of directory consumer fish business, its really difficult and that the amount of capital it takes to get started just to have all the services. But the fishermen need ice bait, 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. Youre trying to produce perfect fish. Every single step matters. How the fisherman touches the fash has applied right away as it show 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 in the country . The sick is an incredible fishing for small mo, warner operators use. It gets flight. 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 a 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 communities across alaska work to find solutions by catch from industrial trawlers continues to threaten the halibut populations. The hell of it, fishermen have taken Big Productions and their quota. They are conserving 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 to your specific Fishery Management Council is responsible for regulating holiday bi, catch across the last can fisheries. Today to cancel is voting on limits for the industrial draft plan. The counsel, my name is john scale. My ben, 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 by catch reduction. Youre now well aware of the status of that, however, it 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 as by kind of send the varying see to 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 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 or an insult to the many locals to testify. And the total, howard with population has since seen a decline, leaving the future of halibut fishing for local communities in jeopardy and say this, you know, were trying to see the numbers are going down. Privatized, make our fissions corporate, which does have the Small Businesses. This is something you need to wireless, even though i was responsible for pushing around the professional to support businesses. Lot of times i wish that shares didnt exist. I wish i didnt have to be a manager. You are the hopefully weve driven home the point to them that theres landlords in this fishery 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 collecting a check. Well, hes not vision the he had some of the i think so. Well, i said 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 important that we didnt do some of this work as a father takes, you know, some of the time ive met with him. I really hope to have him involved right with bring them their best all the restaurant. Believe anyone else in the fall i can get 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 them and we can play with them. You think youll like being played with after coming up from 200 feet of water. One less than 10. Okay. That was a really good job the the, the, [000 00 00;00] the, the, if you like, a nice, quiet little town. This would be a great place to live. But there are problems like i was in a small town in poverty that are unfortunate. Not just a small town in america, we absolutely importer for that is talking about what our Community Needs to keep going collectively. We all need to stay in fishing 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 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 and reproduce. And we can keep it healthy fisheries. This place is so amazing, this cluster of rocks right out here is a red fish rocks Marine Reserved. 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 a framework where it would be studied, seniors and brain reserves, and protected area. And each of these dots is a place where i tagged to fish and released it. I think fundamentally what brought me here, where rockfish set along generation time. Some of them 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 red shocks. So theres a little transmitter, basically was implanted and efficient abdomen after tagging. If this 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 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 batch 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 and rocked 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, the new reports as many such providers are playing a shell game with suppliers, reason investigations and studies have shown miss labeling. Sometimes do the error, but often the result of outraged fraud is ramp in the industry. The same for the labeling in general has been found unfortunately to be full of miss labeling. And a lot of it is intentional. Mislaid when 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 fishermen, the we operate port orford, sustainable c, food communities for the fishery. We catch our fish. I sit down over night 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 offering. 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. 00 pounds at around 20, below transparency is without a doubt the julian hurdle and 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 it expand from selling your own fish directly and you want to grow your business. A lot of time, your line and other entities to process your fast to ship your fresh to deliver your Efficient Companies that may not adhere to your values. And what point do you have enough for sales enough volume to like build the infrastructure to do everything yourself. Reprocessed the fisher ourselves, we deliver traceable fashion ourselves. And we can make sure that was the piece is officially south, is the one that is on the name. Thats a beautiful thing, and i want to keep that growing and keep building the. This is a new kodiak 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 without having 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, here in 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 role stock packaging machine plus 1000 pounds in our we can run through here. This is on the yeah of our small boat slate. The opportunity to custom processes 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 went to the partners and success with you guys. All the basics are here for sure. A new era. Yeah, donovan. Anyways for darias cash present in geography. She was like in the battle for access to the waterfront, beneficent, ultimately determine whether its possible to make a living we need to capitalize on dollars and get some adaptive station the ive seen with these efforts. There is a back in the success on the way the today annually will just longer is, is pretty crazy and our was changing the business for us. We bought a 2nd truck, a bigger truck, 2nd boat from then or 2. We also have several full time employees now they believe and when i believe in, and im having fun doing what im doing, the sink, we got cooking full a tables when growing pretty well. Theyre in a really short time, and theres only 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 you that 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, 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 the, the systems are going. There are 2 choices make it work for us or to fail what the differences is making an example for others of all the defies and system. The 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 is in our hands as consumers, the value they bring to coastal communities. And their stewardship to the ocean rule only remain if we commit to supporting and while their service to society is under threat, hope that our fisheries will once again thrive with possibilities still exist. Among those who continue to fight theres Different Levels of challenge and to watch them and make us work in the small beneficiaries. Providing that quality traceable market is absolutely key to our survival at this point. The combinations, out 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 believe, 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 ecosystem. Recognizing the importance of habitat and managing as if we are in the only of creditors that are taking fish out of receipts, building direct connections between fishermen and the public. Thats great for the for not ultimately shifting policies and thats all for nothing. How can we leverage that network of people who care about where the seafood 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 lon