Jeremiah Gardner
59:43 - 60:33
"My big concern here— excuse me— is for locals. I think language should be in here where if you are a resident of Kodiak, that I don't think that this should apply to you to some degree. There's, there's got to be a concession in there."
“My big concern here— excuse me— is for locals. I think language should be in here where if you are a resident of Kodiak, that I don't think that this should apply to you to some degree. There's, there's got to be a concession in there.”
- Speaker
- Jeremiah Gardner
- Timestamp
- 59:43 – 60:33
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak
- Captured at
- June 25, 2026
From the transcript
So I was aggressively against this as written, but you and Mr. Galagolich have softened me up a little bit. My big concern here— excuse me— is for locals. I think language should be in here where if you are a resident of Kodiak, that I don't think that this should apply to you to some degree. There's, there's got to be a concession in there. I mean, most locals aren't going and getting their fish packaged at a processing facility, but I know plenty of Coast Guard families, or I know several local families that don't want to own a boat, and they will get a charter to get halibut in the summer.
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