Tom Carpenter
8:40 - 9:06
“So brought this motion before the board at our meeting to convene this. The council agreed, and so that's generally the reason that we're sitting here today to better inform at least the Board of Fisheries and how we can move forward with issues that come before us in the future.”
- Speaker
- Tom Carpenter
- Timestamp
- 8:40 – 9:06
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
And when we started to look at these proposals, it was a pretty clear understanding, at least from myself, that the board may not be as informed as it should be in regards to some of the nuances surrounding trawl fisheries. So I had a session with the Commissioner, and with the understanding that this Joint Protocol Committee was a possible venue for both the Council and the Board to get together, to have the staff from the federal side present some information to better inform at least myself and the rest of the Board in regards to potential decisions that we could make that would have impacts not only to state fisheries but federal fisheries regarding things like areas of state waters to be closed, definitions specifically on pelagic and pelagic performance standards, some of the technology that's involved in regard to bottom sensors, things like that. So brought this motion before the board at our meeting to convene this. The council agreed, and so that's generally the reason that we're sitting here today to better inform at least the Board of Fisheries and how we can move forward with issues that come before us in the future. So thank you.
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