Mike Wood
99:43 - 100:15
“the user groups that are in Dillingham are typical— majority of them in a commercial fleet are not from in the state. Same with the sport fishing lodges that operate out there that want to— they'll all fly into Anchorage in order to have discussions on Bristol Bay.”
- Speaker
- Mike Wood
- Timestamp
- 99:43 – 100:15
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 29, 2026
From the transcript
Mr. Wood? Yeah, thank you. I really appreciate going to remote communities and spend a lot of time and money on my own to do that, and because I'm a board member and I want to learn stuff, um, the I think Dillingham would be amazing to go to, but the user groups that are in Dillingham are typical— majority of them in a commercial fleet are not from in the state. Same with the sport fishing lodges that operate out there that want to— they'll all fly into Anchorage in order to have discussions on Bristol Bay. So I think in terms of just you look at the ability for the state, the money the state's going to pay to mobilize to be out there, and then the added expense of others to go out there.
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