Dave Bronson
32:52 - 33:13
"So the short answer is yes. Would, would I welcome, uh, commercial experience? Yes, I would. But the board should probably be the same size as the NPFMC. It should be about 11 people so we get that, those, those, all those voices"
“So the short answer is yes. Would, would I welcome, uh, commercial experience? Yes, I would. But the board should probably be the same size as the NPFMC. It should be about 11 people so we get that, those, those, all those voices”
- Speaker
- Dave Bronson
- Timestamp
- 32:52 – 33:13
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak, AK, USA
- Captured at
- September 9, 2026
From the transcript
So the short answer is yes. Would, would I welcome, uh, commercial experience? Yes, I would. But the board should probably be the same size as the NPFMC. It should be about 11 people so we get that, those, those, all those voices that you just mentioned— sports, subsistence, commercial, uh, and, and you mentioned the first category was gear type.
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