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of the so i like to take him for i have to say the apple doesn't fall far from the jury. here hold, especially for me at 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 living. trim rider is one of the few jig, both fishermen remain back, then we go on the
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people out of the same opportunity to experience fishing the way i did. and that's the saddest thing about this industry. were bickering and arguing over microphones . you know what council meetings are in the press? who 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 don't see that that's not in their pie charts and their flow charts and their circle graphs and the scientists and their science. but i do the,
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the, the, the, the small coastal fishing communities. do we even need these small mom and pop 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 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
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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 some tilted in favor of industrial fishing that even with hatch 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 based foods. and we're seeing the squeeze and displacement of family fishermen and we're 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 sort of a way of life. and it was an envelope of what was best about america, have people that were willing to work hard and come here and struggle could make
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a better lives for their children. we're 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? that's 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
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fish and its impact on ocean ecosystems is a fraction of that of its industrial counterparts. but it's quickly becoming lost. our various casper sac is one of the few jake fishermen, west and cody. jake fishing is one of the oldest fishing is not the oldest vision in the world. that is essence, it's a line going down the water with a couple of, of some very selective. you get over a school and if it's 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 in there were underneath the school, raise it up a little bit, the past to your office, the,
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the over 95 percent the rockfish coming out of alaska is all for all that means is called the large snaps with what they call rock hopper here, that drags on the bottom with this big tire is that roll over rocks and knives tearing down pinnacles, caring out for catching a lot of rock fish that once float as well as other spaces trying when it's done in its worst form has a leveling effect and it has a tendency to really just sort of strip away everything that's there, the carls and find it, 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 eighty's 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,
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40000 miles of netting in the pacific ocean. every night they caught millions of birds, dolphins, wales, turtles. they caught everything. that's why, by the ninety's, 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 the 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
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or 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 and all the time this gets the fisheries going and then pushed out and pushed out who's one of the few guys as i see, puts in the extra effort he just loves it. and i'm glad he's gonna think about 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 it's done as well, wants to moat c 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 them around
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$500.00 on a good day. he might land a few $1000.00 worth of fish, but that's before he pays his crew. on a bad day, he might not even cover his expense. the, there's so many times of life for you people to believe in what they're doing or they just go through the motions. i'm passionate about when i do, i'm 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 $1000000.00 or whatever it is, i knew exact same thing i'm doing right now. tomorrow the fishing is peaks and valleys. pretty 6 can kind of like the sharps i guess
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the in the 1990. so need for conservation was finally acknowledged. a new management of fisheries was established. until then fissures 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 colt. i'm basically a fan of catch shares in a certain configuration which is the person who fishes owns a share of the allowed catch. they don't own a share of the fish in the ocean, but when the catch limit is set, they own a share of that catch. what i'm 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. that's not an improvement on anything. i mean for a $36.00 foot boat that employees will 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 here on
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your problem. i don't really either breaking even losing money, businesses like tens, he has to pay a landlord essentially for those fish. fishermen don't need landlords. they need to be able to go fishing for me and another fisherman that i know for leasing out the flanders. he's getting roughly $175000.00 a year. so that's pretty good. anyone at home is making money and a lot of it, it has nothing to do with the business. sucks the cashier's 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,
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a can be bought by only a few companies. then we're looking at a wal mart situation on the ocean. why don't you just give us the names of the 5 or 7 guys on 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 who are under fed up, we've had enough with policies design to consolidate policies designed to privatize designed to squeeze out or independent fishermen. please join mean walking out. we're going to walk in and tell the public and sign of life. and what's been happening is of the they voted today to allow for 7 entities to control this whole fishery. that type of consolidation, that type of concentration of ownership. it's 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
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this is a work. and there's a select few people at the top that are making all the money. and they're making the rules and benefit themselves the take a fresh look around his life. kaleidoscopic isn't just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions pictures designed to simplify. it will confuse who really wants a better wills. and is it just because it shows very few fractured images presented to this, but can you see through their illusion going underground can as soon as 2016, numerous monuments to serve you as soldiers in poland,
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ukraine and the baltic states have been destroyed or vandalized as dish, there's a lot of us value and you must, or even some of us could ask if i think so that's the most on whether it's it's classroom or just bring in the police government denies the rule of so it'd be its own just in the victory of a non system and is it raising historical memories of world war 2? it is the 40 piece from your story. although it did seem the non supervision, the trustees would remain, thinks in people's consciousness, but have a but as long as russell phobia is profitable and brings dividends, you are willing to have a to rewrite the cost. yes. yes. yes, don't speak up to that. i'll provide i need to see thing because it looks like so i need to raise the
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privatization came about for how that at that point i was only in my mid twenties. i didn't 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 it's a good thing. i didn't 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 of 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 camry row where you see the remaining processors mostly all large corporate entities. things that really didn't happen consolidated the afternoon. and various caspar that a local fisherman home for about kodiak. i'm also the president of the alaska jake association,
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who i'm representing today. we do not support any new management program in the gulf of alaska, charles 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 air system and seek other solutions for conservation management. this is the port of port orford. it's one of the very few. dolly ports they call them where you're both stay on trailers and you're actually lifted in by crane into the open ocean. the is how we do it here. it's pretty intense. one of the most unique things about port orford is we're
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restricted in boat size. 40 feet and under 50 ton and under everybody has different opinions and they're independent of course. but because we have so much in common, what benefits mean 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 doesn't 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 those either. you know, i mean, that seems extreme, but it's not out of the question. the community port orford is pretty unique. the populations 1200 between the timber industry and fishing. that's what it's all
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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 of the light fishing 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 don't 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
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a 3 year goal in years. the permits do leave out of 4 offered it's 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, it's 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. we're right here. i mean, we're 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, your 400 people solely dependent on fish, declining, halibut,
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stocks has meant that native fisheries have had to reduce their cash in the interest of maintaining the fish population. right now i have probably 3 strings. i'm a little, i'm a little frustrated. right. but we've got 4 things out the we got a couple of good size like right now. so just to kind of day we want to have right here the over the years. seattle based charlton has been operating in the bearings, the light in simians backyard, us catch shares of how women in alaska are limited to hooked and lines fishers. so
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when these trawlers accidentally catch how the wind fishing for other species, they're forced to throw the fish back 5 and they're 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 wherever they come from. and america is going to be able to come up here and fish. no, no, right. the see, the bycatch is accounting for almost all of what's available to be taken of the hell of it's done. these are industrial, but it's are distant water boats to fully prosecute their fishery. and the most economical way to go out there, set their nets, do long toes, and just drove its side what they are allowed to keep the costs to them of during those how better over the size costs doing business. thanks for come in,
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say one of the really great things about this bike has issue is it unites groups because it's really important to everybody to cares about the halibut resource linda bank. and the fisher herself is the director of the alaska long lines fisherman's association. in the early ninety's, she led the fires in which local communities successfully band trolling in southeast alaska and stuff in here. fisherman, proud ocean leaving waste in week despite hunger. how's that for headline? the fisherman of southeast alaska had a long term concern about trolling. having watched the foreign slates operate right off our coast and huge decline and the eco system and the rafters and the black had and how that. so this is a line of their catch per unit effort. so how much they were catching per toe when they were trolling for this species of rockfish co pacific ocean perch. and then
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this is what was happening to the abundance of that fish. that's a big part of our concern. in the early ninety's, 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 towards co, wrangell g. you know, every community in southeast passed a resolution in support of the closure and submitted them all with the council. it was a very motion 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 marine fisheries service and from the troll industry . i know easily at the time with sure that with this much support from communities in small but fishermen, the counselor would do the right thing. it took another 5 years before they took
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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 . it was a 4 surface gets lost in the shuffle where of, you know, against a 100000 pounds of fish quality doesn't matter. i've 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 the for over
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a century the us as celebrated the efficiency in affordability of an industrial food system that processes and preserve massive amounts of food for consumers that's included. and today, there's 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. there's 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 the flashlights and clean. thanks a lot. higher quality product prior to going out on the fin lander, i was doing,
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we're creating a mobile app trying to connect people with local c food options. and during that time working on their product, they realize they're needed to be more options and it coincides perfectly with meeting time 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 really sad to think about this area, having relied upon their fisheries. and with a lot of the important sea food, we're kind of moving that new fishmonger is our idea directly selling fish
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throughout new england's kind of re establish what new england sea food 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 cod sustainably. the direct market approach, it has this differences. we're gonna walk in with a bunch of fish off the boat. we're not going to have suit and tie and fancy delivering chines the with the end of world war one, the movement for indian independence from the british empire flared up with renewed vigor. the british responded to the growth of the national liberation movement with arrest and brutal violence. repression cause active resistance. in march
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1919 at the call of mahatma gandhi, a peaceful strike began in the country. but the british responded with a new round of violence and far bade the indians to gather more than 4 people on the day of the sea bass. at t festivals, a huge crowd of civilians gathered in the center of the city of i'm gonna start in northern india seeing base as outright defiance. general reginald dyer gave the order to open fire on the, on our people. the barbaric execution claimed the lives of at least 379 indians, including 40 children, the youngest of who was 6 weeks old. the indian national congress considered the official figures to be underestimated and announced the death of more than $1000.00
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civilians. the well known greatest newspaper, the morning post called dyer, the man who saved india, gave him a sword and 26000 pounds sterling as a token of gratitude for the massacre. the amorous star massacre wind down in history as one of the most brutal crimes of the british invaders, and only escalated the affair. struggle of the indians for liberation from the colonial yoke. the sony still working through the journey of developing an identity, a national identity bears, you know, we talked earlier about the vibrancy and the dynamics of the media. all sorts of use and narratives have a chance to, to page and come to the for but also has the downside in the everything is up for debate. nothing is agreed on
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the and 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 we're kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck that way we can start, you know, having on more clients cuz there's 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 the auction, the distributor the processor, the secondary distributors that bring it to restaurants and then.
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