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 be difficult. so we're kind of hoping to get a nice refrigerated truck that way we can start, you know, adding 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 middleman and costs that are associated with the auctions, the distributor the processor, the secondary distributors that bring it to restaurants and then the grocery store and the people that you know are working at the counter trying to make it so that

the boat's getting a fair price, not based on international markets, but based on what it takes to have a livelihood. the, i don't like to use the word locals. i like to use the word intelligently, a little more knowing where that fluids coming from having the relationships with the people it's coming from. that's what our menu reflects. will get text messages from amanda before the podium, saying that here's what's 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 they're going to get. that same high quality fish every single time the

to my families and how efficient for a really long time. my mom was pregnant with me still long lying. and i grew up on long line boats. so, you know, that's been a huge part of our income and our way of life is how that fish and there's 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. 100 over easy running, you know, from top to tell medium, slightly running. in other words, you want it perfectly done and then, okay, tell me busted to your my dad is a super jolly guy. he's kind of like buddha, like he's taught me the trade and i think that's really unique. i've been how

that vision since probably 1978 was my 1st year that i seriously pointed to it the way that we catch of it is we catch them on what's called long lines and they're 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 . busy the standards for sea food is 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 treating sion. i think it's actually better the so when i started off, you know, you're 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 kinda incomplete. they had this beautiful fish. and then it just disappears under this will take global supply chain, the 20th 11. i saw on 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, who is like an ah ha moment of, well, there's

a better way where i can sell my fish directly. i can receive a fair price and people receiving the session, the midwest, getting an incredible product. the success of shares. yeah. uh what, uh, what are you looking for? what are you looking to do? any kind of directory consumer fish business. it's really difficult and that the amount of capital it takes to get started just to have all the services, but the fishermen need ice made 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 when you're trying to produce perfect fish, every single step matters, how the fisherman catches the fascist and blood 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 has frozen household, this is stay on. the sink is an incredible fishing for small mo, owner operators. as it gets late, it's 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 quality. there's 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 we'll have more, more efficient, you know, connecting directly with to peaks or fish. the small communities across alaska work to find solutions by catch from industrial trawlers continues to threaten the halibut population. the hell of it,

fishermen have taken big productions in their quota. they are in serving, and you really can't have a healthy, sustainable resource unless all sectors, everybody involved, the sharing and conserving that resource, their way fisheries are changing. it's the way our country is changing. it's increasingly harder for small businesses to make it more specific fishery management council is responsible for regulating halibut bi, catch across the last can fisheries. today, the council is voting on limits for the industrial translate, the hello council. my name is john scale and i've been a small boat held at long liner for just about exactly

40 years. and since that time i've made uh at least 50 percent of my yearly income and up to maybe 90 percent on the pallet. so i'd like to request that when you vote that you vote for the maximum by catch reduction. you're now well aware of the status of the how of at stocks and the need for conservation. you've heard from a lot of people, the exploitable biomass is near historical levels. growth rates have dropped. we're still seeing over 3000000 pounds of juvenile halibut killed us by cost and the varying see the people dependent on the how that resource are the ones that are plummeting and we're, we're calling out to you. those who are watching us fall are either enjoying the view or missing. the fact that we're about to hit the bottom

everybody is living in denial here and because of big money, i mean that's, so that's the only way i can 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 in the bearing see the new limits or an insult to the many locals to testify. and the total how big population has since seen a decline leaving the future of halibut fishing for local communities in jeopardy and say this. you know, we're trying to see the numbers are going to privatize our fissions corporate, which is happening to small businesses that somebody needs to be responsible for pushing around to support businesses. a lot of times i wish that shares didn't

exist. i wish i didn't have to be a manager say how passionate you are by the hopefully we've driven home the point to them that there's landlords in this space . are you 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 go i thing a check. well, he's not visit the he had some of the i think so. well i look a nice out, amanda. there's other similar models out there that are doing the right thing and i wanted to be like we are the proof and the important

that we didn't do some of this work as a father takes you know, some of the time i have messed with him. i really hope to have him involved right with bring them there fast. all the restaurant. believe anyone else in the fall? i got it done. you have the skills. yeah. because that's what i do for what i'm going to take you on a card. first thing trip this here, a little more peasy. 13. my let's we can try when we get a new one. that's why with them you think you're like being played with after coming up from 200 feet of water. one missing kid. ok, that was a really good job. the

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not watch my new show. seriously. why watch something that's so different. listed of opinions that he won't get anywhere else. welcome to please, or do the have the state department c i a weapons, bankers, multi 1000000000 dollar corporations. choose your fax for you. go ahead. i changed and whatever you do, don't my show stay main street because i'm probably going to make you, i'm comfortable. my show is called stretching time, but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way you the issue like a nice, quiet little town. this would be a great place to live. but there are problems in a small town in poverty that are unfortunate not just as a small town in america. we absolutely import or perhaps talking about what our community needs to keep going. collectively,

we all need to stay and vision 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 tanks were here right at our front door. and we chose 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 those fish can reproduce and we can keep healthy fisheries. this place is so amazing. this cluster of rocks right out here is a red fish rock marine reserved. it's the marine reserve that our group of fishermen put forward. we wanted to integrate our exponential knowledge engine choosing where it would be. and then we installed the framework where it would be studied and here's the marine reserved for me and protected area. and each of the dots is a place where i tagged the fish and released it. i think fundamentally what brought

me here, where rockfish said a long generation time, someone went to be over a 100 years old. and when they get over fish like they were back in the seventy's, eighty's 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 that's what led to read for shocks. so there's a little transmitter, basically was implanted and efficient abdomen, that after tagging the fish goes into this cage. when we get down to say 4050 feet door pops open, fish twins away. and now we're tracking it. we've found a perfect synergy between people who have a careers worth of knowledge about fish in the ocean. and we've connected them with the technology of a research institution like o, s u,

that kind of negotiation is how you get to where you're trying to go. when you're trying to do conservation in a community that's dependent on resources, the abundant stocks are important. i mean, who wants to fish the last batch, the way 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 of rock and shop the are in cost. it's solve the snapper. if people are willing to accept that their fishes ministry, fish van, you know, who cares anymore about the small guy. a new reports as many fish providers are playing a shell game with suppliers. recent investigations and studies have shown miss labeling sometimes do the error, but on the results of outrage,

fraud is ramp in the industry. the see for the labeling in general has been found. unfortunately to be full of mislabeled and a lot of it is intentional. mislaid was 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 it's not red snapper us solution to the fraud in seaford is better enforcement. where somebody who was coming in the by happened to be running dna test. they really wouldn't keep doing that. who fishes matters. and you can actually know your fisherman, the we operate port orford, sustainable seafood, communities for to fishery. we catch our fish. i sit down overnight and lock in the fresh desk as fast as you can. troubles were to pay more for the fish,

a fair trade price to create processing jobs and to sell puerto efficient port orford. you couldn't 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 we'll go up again. so we can stay in business. this is where all the best from alaska comes directly. this is about 50000 pounds of this at around 20, below transparency is without a doubt a julian hurdle, and me see from the supply chain and a small operations with the right intentions grow and scale. it's an issue that must be addressed. if you're trying to expand from selling your own fest directly and you want to grow your business for a long time, your line and other entities to process your fast to ship your fish to deliver your

efficient companies that may not adhere to your values. and what point you have enough sales enough volume to like build the infrastructure to do everything yourself. we've process the fisher cells, we deliver that traceable fashion, ourselves. we can make sure that was the piece is officially south, is the one that is on the name. that's a beautiful thing and i want to keep that growing and keep tell me the so this is a new cardiac municipal crane. this allows harbor users independent access to the waterfront without having to go through a large industrial processor. we've been fighting for this for between 30 and 40 years. there can be no startup operations. they'll have an access to the waterfront with what this plan provides. now you can have

a little mom and pop processor that's, you know, a couple blocks in land. this is the kodiak island wild source facility, we hope to serve the small boat fleet, hearing 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 roll stock packaging machine plus 1000 pounds in our we can run through here. this is an idea of our small boat slate. the opportunity to custom process this throughout the course of the year. i think we'll be hopefully 12 months of the year as long as there's fish to be caught. you guys helped us get to the point that we are today and we wanna be partners in success with you guys. all the basics are here for sure. a new era. yeah. for the areas casper in geography,

issues like in the battle for access to the waterfront, beneficent, ultimately determine whether it's possible to make a living we need to capitalize on value and get some of that just issue the i've seen with these efforts. there is a back a, the success on the way the today. i know one fish longer is visit, pretty crazy and our was change in the business for us. we bought a 2nd truck, a bigger truck, 2nd boat from the end or 2. we also have several full time employees now they believe in one i believe in, and i'm having fun doing what i'm doing. the sink we got cooking,

we've grown pretty well there in a really short time. and there's always so much you can shuffle fish around in a refrigerated man. there we go. i think we can have your own cold storage. we'll leave you a day and having more flexibility to do our work. i'm looking forward to this. this would be nice. we have a close to $3000.00 followers on facebook. i never thought it wouldn't be at that point and 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 that. the, the system is not going anywhere. so i have 2 choices make it work for us or to fail. what the difference is is making an example for all there's a ball that defies that system. the battle for me now is not in washington dc anymore. it's not in town,

so meetings on my boat and into businesses, we work with the, the future of small scale fisher's and seen our hands as consumers, the value they bring to coastal communities and their stewardship to the ocean will only remain if we commit to supporting and while their service to society is under, is thread in our fisheries. and once again strive with possibilities still exist among those who continued there's different levels of challenge to what's going to make us work in the small mo fisheries. providing that all the traceable market is absolutely key to our survival at this point. the combination of small scale

fisheries, and robust management that's 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 in us waters. we have started to let it do that and it shows the message i would leave 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 system, recognizing the importance of habitat and managing as if we are in the only predator that's taking fish out of the sea building direct connections between fishermen and the public. that's great for,

for not ultimately shifting policies and it's all for nothing. how can we leverage that network of people who care about where the sea food comes from so that we're protecting community based fishermen who we believe are poised to be the best stewards of the ocean? that's really ultimately what we need. it is going to be around for the long news of the

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