Treg Taylor
94:47 - 95:12
“if Chinook are listed as endangered, declared under the Endangered Species Act, then we lose control. We lose control of those commercial fisheries, we lose control of our fish management, and at that point it's too late”
- Speaker
- Treg Taylor
- Timestamp
- 94:47 – 95:12
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 13, 2026
From the transcript
So, you know, my policy is Alaska fish belong to Alaskans first, and it's those Alaskan users that we've got to focus on and concentrate our efforts on. I've kept my promise not to take money from the trawling industry because it's such a lightning rod issue, and I don't want people to think that I'm any way influenced influence when I'm the governor and making decisions on this issue. The other thing is we can't have one user group of a resource, our fisheries for example, that benefit at the detriment of every other user, you know, and so that's sort of my 30,000-foot level, but I think, you know, industry has every motive right now to solve this problem because of the public pressure on them right now, because if Chinook are listed as endangered, declared under the Endangered Species Act, then we lose control. We lose control of those commercial fisheries, we lose control of our fish management, and at that point it's too late, and it's too late for all of our users. And so I'd love to partner with industry in solving these issues and getting the fish back up the Kuskokwim and Yukon and the other rivers.
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