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“the proclamation today, and the executive order last year prior to this is really going to help us. We have 3,000 families that work with us and 715 fishing families, lower 48 and Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, that depend on what we catch, what we process, and what we grow and sell is the healthiest protein on the planet.”
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If we could count the votes. Yeah, if you could count the votes, probably. But where we are is this— the act, the proclamation today, and the executive order last year prior to this is really going to help us. We have 3,000 families that work with us and 715 fishing families, lower 48 and Oregon, Washington, California, and Alaska, that depend on what we catch, what we process, and what we grow and sell is the healthiest protein on the planet. And you're giving us access to these family-wage jobs in these coastal communities where we're usually the number one or number two employer in those cities and counties and coastal community.

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