Olivia Irwin
187:39 - 188:04
“I do not think it's predominantly allocative when we're not meeting, when escapement objectives are not being met, when border passage objectives are not being met, and when subsistence priority opportunities are not able to be reasonably provided.”
- Speaker
- Olivia Irwin
- Timestamp
- 187:39 – 188:04
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 29, 2026
From the transcript
And I do not, I, as Member Carpenter mentioned, any of these proposals are going to be, to some degree, allocative in nature, because that's the job of the board. However, I do not think it's predominantly allocative when we're not meeting, when escapement objectives are not being met, when border passage objectives are not being met, and when subsistence priority opportunities are not able to be reasonably provided. Um, and from 2022 to 2025, 320,000 chum— siwak chum have been caught in this area. So, um, with that, I'm gonna call the question.
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