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far from missouri hold, especially for me as the other one reading of 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 go fishermen remaining max and we don't want the people have the same opportunity to experience fishing the way i did. and that's
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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 don't see that that's not in their pie charts and their flow charts and their circle graphs, scientists and their science. but i do 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
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a choir or honors ranging in the fisheries 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 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 to your place. the sea food supply chain is long and fragmented with little accountability. the biggest losers in this broken system, or is 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
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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. basically we're seeing the squeeze and displacement of family fishermen and we're seeing a collapse of infrastructure. and once that infrastructure has gone to 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. we're looking at a shift and coastal america, like we have never seen the
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the, the, i started in 1983 this year with my father on the, on that site on the south end. or it's not much my childhood that thought 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 go 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 it's quickly becoming lost. our various caspar zach is one of the few jig fishermen west and cody
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jefferson is one of the oldest fishing is not the oldest vision in the world. that is essence. it's a line going out in the water with a couple of ups are very selective. you get over school and if it's not the right fish, then you can quickly move you know, out of his time in the tides, right. and in the wind, see the fish and there were underneath the school. raise it up 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 to that means it's called a large snaps with what they call rock hopper here. that drags on the bottom with this big tires that roll over rocks and knives tearing down pinnacles, tearing else oral, such
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a lot of rock fish that ones 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 phonics, but also all the fish that are living in that particular area. generally speaking, a smaller scale operation, well managed is going to have less collateral damage than a large trawler that is the bottom drawing area. over efficient you 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 that's why,
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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 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 other guy liked him right glasses and they were running 80 miles to be able to catch a fish and a 30 footfall question. so many a night, so i want to,
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i'm wondering if this guy was coming back on guys and all the time is getting officially is gone and then pushed out and pushed out who's one of the few guys is i, steve puts in the extra effort he just loves it, and i'm glad he is going on big about some 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, 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 him around $500.00 on a good day. he might land a few $1000.00 worth of fish, but that's before he pays a screw. on a bad day. he might not even cover his expense. the,
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there's so many times of life where you people don't 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 $1000000000.00 or whatever it is, i knew exact same thing i'm doing right now. tomorrow the fishing is peaks and valleys. pretty quick scan. kind of like the sharp, 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. style called catch share management was established and quickly took hold on
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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 with somebody else is doing. that's not an improvement on anything. i mean for a 36 foot boat, the employees for 2 or 3 people in the sun. and then a couple of guys on shore run and fish around. you can take a 25 percent on your profit. 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, and i know for leasing out the founders, he's getting roughly $175000.00
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a year. 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 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 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 into private hands. and i think overtime the next logical and editor's
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of this resources 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 are independent fishermen. please join me and walking out. we're going to walk in and tell the public and sign a light on what's been happening. 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 economy is 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 isn't working. 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
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the due date in 34 prance invaded algeria and straight away the french started inhabiting it to strengthen their position. the column is known as the new wires to the best land. from day one, the local population was put into an unequal position and was briefly exploited. this cause and as discontent. the people of l g area began their long term bite for independence. in 1954, the banner of freedom was raised by the national liberation front. a guerrilla war against the occupants broke out. the french tried to suppress, to rebuild you and using cruel measures. whole villages were wiped out acts of torture and executions of civil people, including pregnant women,
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children and old people took place more than 2000000 people were born into concentration camps. however, these punitive measures didn't help. cl, jerry and patriots managed to induce france the start seize negotiations in 1962 heavy and the cords were assigned 40 l. jerry on the bass boards independence. but this was achieved at a colossal price. algeria by rights, is considered to be a country of martyrs. according to the calculations of historians, the french colonists are responsible for the depths of one and a half 1000000 algerians since 2016. numerous monuments, the soviets soldiers in poland, ukraine and the baltic states have been destroyed or vandalized fish. there's the body of us pharmacy to be the most certainly within. yeah. i'm not sure. or even some others could ask if i really think so that's the most the it's,
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it's especially almost a thing of the police government denies the role of. so it'd be assumed 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 store. although it did seem to know so we regimes 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. so to speak up to that, i'll provide him upstairs and i need to see because fox do i need october 30th the, 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 and the small boat fleet, and kodiak. this is basically the waterfront of. busy 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 are really that hum, consolidated the afternoon. and various caspar that a local fisherman home for delta kodiak. i'm also a president of the alaska jake association,
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who i'm representing today as we do not support any new management program. the gulf of allows control sector, which monetize us the fishery research. the future of our fishing community depends on access the fishery resource. please maintain opportunity for the next generation of fishermen. thank you. thank you. dear, 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. 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. this is how we do it. it's pretty intense. what are the most unique things about?
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port orford is we're restricted in both 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 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 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 the sea food. you know, i mean, that seems extreme, but it's not out of the question. the community port orford is pretty unique. population is 1200. between the temper industry and fishing. there's one,
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it's 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 of the light version and we all use the same type of gear. it prevents us all from growing into the other sectors of truck and towing. that's 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,
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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 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 offers. 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 fiche. 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 of 400 people solely dependent on fish declining habits. fox has meant
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that native fisheries have had to reduce their cash in the interest of maintaining the fish population. right now i've only 3 strings. i'm a little, i'm a little frustrated, right? we've got 4 strings out the we got a couple of good size like right now. so this is kind of the day we want to have right here the over the years seattle base 12th food has been operating in the bearings. see, right in sims, backyard, us catch shares of halibut and alaska are limited to hooked in line fishers. so
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when these trawlers accidentally catch how the wind fishing for other species, therefore, to throw the fish back 5 and they're usually dead. these unintentionally cost fish are known as by couch. 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 what's available to be taken of the hell of it stock. these are industrial, but it's or district 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 cost to them of during those how better of the size just costs doing business.
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thanks for common. so one of the really great things about this bike has issue is it unites groups cuz it's really important to everybody that 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 fight in which local communities successfully band trolling in southeast alaska. we had stuff in here, fishermen prowl ocean weaving waste in wake despite hunger. how's 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 in the eco system and the rafters in the black had 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 rockfish co pacific ocean perch
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. and then 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 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, close this area, the drawing board, sco wrangell juno, 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 marine fisheries service. and from the travel industry, i know easily at the time was sure that with this much support from communities and small but freshman,
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the counselor would do the right thing. i took another 5 years before they took action to close trolling. it was the largest troll than 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 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
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for over a century the us is celebrated the efficiency of the affordability of an industrial system. that processes and preserves massive amounts of food for consumers. that's included. see, and today there's 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 a fit. the main problem with the, with 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 as going out on the sun lander,
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i was doing work 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 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 get 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 fish mongers,
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our ideas directly selling fish throughout new england is kind of re establish what new england seafood 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 are gonna walk in with a box of fish off the boat. we're not going to have suit and tie and fancy delivery chines the i feel the spelling need us to. a through the journey of developing an identity, a national identity, there's, 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 base and come to the for also has the downside in the everything is up for
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debate. nothing is agreed on the and i'm a film director, i've written many scripts during my career. but i thought really curious, cutting neural networks collaborate with a human to make a documentary film so much good for me not to be chosen by of of sheriff comergence. this human more than. so it was more list, you know, there's one know, but i would feel was i supposed to inject most of the list like do you feel are used to play? it's through multiplan tables. look a lot. finally, probably for you really feel ports of literature sort of by the way we haven't introduced ourselves. i have the strangest feeling we've met somewhere before the
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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 and start, you know, adding on more clients because 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 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.
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