Hannah Lindhoff
37:14 - 38:25
“So we, we are trying to make sure that we serve Western Alaska communities when we distribute halibut. We have a program now where we have funding to purchase seafood. And so I think last year we did over 400,000 pounds of donations throughout Alaska, most of which was not from the PSC program, and almost none of which was halibut because halibut is expensive”
- Speaker
- Hannah Lindhoff
- Timestamp
- 37:14 – 38:25
- Transcript
- NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
So we, we are trying to make sure that we serve Western Alaska communities when we distribute halibut. We have a program now where we have funding to purchase seafood, and so I think last year we did over 400,000 pounds of donations throughout Alaska, most of which was not from the PSC program, and almost none of which was halibut because halibut is expensive and we weren't purchasing it, with a small exception where we did some halibut collars this summer and We've done some scraped meat. So there is, in terms of hunger relief, the demand is, is huge. And so we have to work with agencies that have the infrastructure to receive frozen product and then distribute it to, to households. And so, you know, we, we thought that is what our job is.
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