Crystal Jones
25:50 - 26:04
“Hopefully banning— we need to ban trawling in-state waters and hopefully even beyond the 3-mile mark, but also make sure that we're setting limits on bycatch.”
- Speaker
- Crystal Jones
- Timestamp
- 25:50 – 26:04
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 13, 2026
From the transcript
And you'll have a minute and a half for that as well. Thank you so much. I think it's really important that we do have voices in the decision-making process, so we really need to make sure that District 36, that tribal villages have people on the seats of the Board of Fish and Game so that they are in on making decisions about harvest allocations, season timing, and bycatch. So we really— bycatch is important to address that. Hopefully banning— we need to ban trawling in-state waters and hopefully even beyond the 3-mile mark, but also make sure that we're setting limits on bycatch.
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