Dave Bronson
85:17 - 86:00
“we have far too much lower 48 commercial representation there, and the subsistence and even the sport fishing users don't have enough voice on that whatsoever, so that's just it, appoint the right people to the boards”
- Speaker
- Dave Bronson
- Timestamp
- 85:17 – 86:00
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 13, 2026
From the transcript
And the question, I don't know if you guys need me to keep repeating it, but no, you good? Okay. Well, certainly hearing subsistence rural voices on our keyboard, on our keyboards, board game, board of fish, NPFMC, NPFMC, the governor nominates 6 of the 11, Secretary of Commerce then appoints one of those nominees on each of the seats, and we have far too much lower 48 commercial representation there, and the subsistence and even the sport fishing users don't have enough voice on that whatsoever, so that's just it, appoint the right people to the boards, you'll get better advice as the executive. The other thing is fully fund Fish and Game budget, not just, uh, with Pittman Roberts money, Dingle Johnson money. I think we need to drive a lot of the cost of management down to the non-resident, um, hunters and fishermen that come up here and help them pay the bills to, uh, for research, for management and things like that.
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