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the, the people have 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, like 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 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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small coastal fishing communities. do we even need the small, common 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 tear place the sea food supply chain is long and fragmented with little
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accountability. 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 the attach 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 base food system. 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 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
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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 parent, this 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 the ocean ecosystems is a fraction of that of its industrial counter. but it's quickly becoming a loss to our various casper sac is one of the few jake fishermen left 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 flowing out in 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 and there are underneath the score rates it up a little bit. the past you know, does to your office the
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over 95 percent the rockfish coming out of alaska is all troll gone. 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 out for catching a lot of rockfish at once for 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 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 eighty's with the use of a new generation of unimaginably long. that's that stretched for miles. there were a 1000 boats fish being in the pacific with high seas dressing 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 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
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guy liked him ryder losses and 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 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 some ot 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 $500.00 or on a good day. he might land
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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 expenses. there's so many times of life for 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 do 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 the in the 1990. so need for conservation was finally
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acknowledged. a new management of fisheries was established until been fishers 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 cash 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 $36.00 foot boat, the employees for 2 or 3 people in the sun and then a couple of guys on short run and said around,
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you can save you 25 percent of your problem. i don't really either breaking even or 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 what $75000.00 is here. 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. catchers 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 of 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, printers or fed up. we've had enough with policies design to consolidate policies designed to privatize designed to squeeze out or independent fishermen to join mean walking out, we're going to walk in and tell the public and sign of life. and what's 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. it's kurtz our local economies that depend on these working waterfront and we need to go up the chain. we need to have accountability in this process, and this isn't working. and there's
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but i'm certainly not ready to fight russia. this is also absurd. this is the 3rd world lunacy re washing as for so the funder line likes to say, we have the tools while we just start with stability and business deal. so just let me let me on. you have very quick propaganda. you know a price here in new york. i think we don't know the aftermath any time that you're not allowed to ask questions, you should ask all of the questions. some more questions ask a better. the answer is will be the result. china without the shop. i think the new 20 becomes have i'm to talk visit the under kind it to tell you. so why do you the 2 presents when wishing mug? because you know, they were not happy with the different dates for i absolved the news, reports and media in 2 countries that very important walks presidency has made some very important for us of decisions in dash, operation. 14 has been, oh,
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it is new. must have gone for the whole far is the, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best. most all sun set up the same assistance must be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin mission, the state on russia to day and split the ortiz net keeping our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the fitness center. for what question did you say a request, which is 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 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. and over there is the rest, the cannery row,
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where you see the remaining processors, mostly all large corporate entities. things that really become consolidated the afternoon and various cast present us a local fisherman home for data kodiak. i'm also a president of the alaska jake association 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 research. 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. it's one of the very few. dolly ports they call
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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. one of the most unique things about 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 i, if the plan is over time to have 10 big boats on the west coast that catch 95
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percent of the food. you know, i mean, that seems extreme, but it's not out of the question really important efforts. pretty unique populations. 1200 between the temper industry and fishing. it's what 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 a healthy life person and we all use the same type of gear. it prevents us all from growing into the other sectors of charl towing. that's the port orford fleet is limited to 40 votes,
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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 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 offered the. i mean, it's a big dam deal if that goes away, it will just lead to 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,
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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, halibut stocks has meant that native fisheries have had to reduce their cash in the interest of maintaining the fish population. right now i've probably 3 strings. i'm a little, i'm a little frustrated, right? 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
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over the years. seattle, base 12 and has been operating in the bearings. see right in simians, backyard, us catch shares of how they've been in alaska are limited to hooked in line fishers . so 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 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 bycatch is accounting for almost all of what's available to be taken. of the halibut stock is or industrial, but it's or district water boats to fully prosecute their fishery. and the most
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economical way to go out there, set their nets, do on toes and just drove inside what they are allowed to keep the costs to them. a string, those how better of this size just costs doing business. thanks for come in, say one of the really great things about this bike has issue is it unites groups cuz it's really important to everybody, the cares about the how that 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 and stuff in here. fishermen prowl ocean, leaving waste in wake despite hunger. how's that for headline? the fisherman of southeast alaska had a long term concern about trolling. having watched the 4 inflates,
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operate right off our coast and huge decline and the eco system, and the raffish, and the black hat and how of it. 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 rock fisco, 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 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, close this area to drawing towards co, wrangell g. you know, every community and 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
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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 band 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
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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 a century the us as celebrated the efficiency in affordability of an industrial food system that processes and preserves massive amounts of food for consumers that's included ceased. and today there's an intricate international supply chain that provides us with cheap fish, but 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 the supply chain to set up right now is that since that changes hands so many times, every time it changes hands,
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a little bit of value is lost for the fisherman. the cleaning up effect, so it keeps a flash, nice and clean. thanks a lot. higher quality products going out on the same lander i was doing, we're creating a mobile app, trying to connect people with local c food options. and during that time working on their product, their realize they're needed to be more options and it coincided perfectly with meeting time and session on the phone the it's just not typical in the industry where the captain does a lot of delivering in the captain is the fish car to get
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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 throughout new england's kind of re establish what new england thinks it 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 pod, sustainably, the direct market approach. it has this difference is we're gonna walk in with a box of fish off the boat. we're not going to have suit and tie and fancy delivery machines. the only one main thing is important for not as an internationally speaking is that is of nations because that's are allowed to do anything, all the mazda races,
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and then you have the mind and agents who are the slaves. americans, rock, obama and others have had a concept of american exceptionalism of the international law exist as long as it serves the american interest. if it doesn't, that doesn't exist by turning those russians. and so it is dangerous boy, a man that wants to take over the world. that was the culture of strategy. since i'm the new one, i exist v i v, i not leashed. it's often zuba and, and tablet block. nato said it's ours. we move east. the reason us, hey jim, it is dangerous. is it the by the sovereignty of the countries, the exceptionalism that america uses and its international war planning is one of the greatest threats to the populations of different nations of nature. what is founded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lots of companies would
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lose millions and millions, or is business businesses good? and that is the reality of what, what we're facing, which is fashion, the acceptance. and i'm here to plan with you whatever you do. you do not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that's so different whitelisted opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please or do have the state department c i a weapons makers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. change and whatever you do. don't want marshall state main street because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, we don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way you in
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