Fisheries committee  There are regulations in place in Alaska that would prevent someone from participating in this salmon fishery and then moving over into another area and participating in that salmon fishery. That's to prevent the type of consolidation or concentration of wealth that is very much

Fisheries committee  Yes. There are five recommendations that we identified after our global review of programs and our three years of research. One of the top ones is to create diversification opportunities for the next generation. We encouraged or recommended that the State of Alaska develop a fis

Fisheries committee  Right, it's the need to allow our young fishermen to diversify. Number two would be the creation of apprenticeship or mentorship programs to train the next generation. Number three would be the creation of a state-wide fisheries access task force. Number four would be around

Fisheries committee  Many of our rural communities are not connected to roads, so there's a need for harbours, processing, transportation needs, and infrastructure to support access and market opportunities. A lot of our infrastructure comes from out of state. A lot of our processors come from out of

Fisheries committee  The State of Alaska would do it, and there's a model that can be followed in Alaska. The governor would have to sign off on it. A few years ago the state set up a mariculture task force. There's a zero fiscal note attached to it, and we thought that would be a good model to follo

Fisheries committee  I don't know. I can send that in a link.

Fisheries committee  Actually, I don't think they are. Now that I think about it, I don't think they are. One way that they are studying them is through some part of the.... I'm quite sure they're not all marked.

Fisheries committee  To clarify, are you talking about stock assessments?

Fisheries committee  Yes, I think the north Pacific has been a leader in relying on the best available science and working in the context of sound management, of which stock assessment is the best.

Fisheries committee  There is, yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we often talk about managing fisheries in the context of trade-offs, oftentimes in the context of efficiencies. In the case of Alaska, I feel like our managers know very well the broader costs associated with the loss of access to local fisheries, and that includes not only

Fisheries committee  The development and management of our natural resources is written into the constitution of the state, so it's very much a central tenet of policy in the state.

Fisheries committee  Yes, this is an increasingly important and divisive issue in the state. We're paying increasing attention to it. I can't share with you statistics today, but I can provide the links to the most recent reports. Some regions of the state do not have hatcheries; other regions are v

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's closely monitored in terms of how much each hatchery releases per year and what the survival rate is.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. When I am speaking about fjord fisheries I am speaking largely about rural, small-scale communities that have been cut off from the resource due to these larger, privatized management regimes. They're still out in the ocean. There are many of them. I'm no