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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Brad Harris “If we're going to make improvements and say Dr. Yokom comes up with a new design for foot rope to hear about, we want the ability to plug that in and say, okay, relative to the status quo gear, what is that likely to do?”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Mike Wood “are they fishing state waters predominantly because they are smaller vessels or for safety reasons, or is it because that's where the fish are aggregating in larger numbers at different times a year so that they can harvest them more cleanly?”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Tom Carpenter “If you have an overlay in an area of multiple gear types, how do you quantify when it comes to habitat or the, the length of time in which the seafloor would need to, let's say, rehabilitate itself?”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Shannon Carroll “this project is really oriented around the Bering Sea fisheries and oriented around a real specific area of uncertainty, which is unobserved crab mortality.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Mike Wood “in this case it does appear that you've gone to lengths to underestimate. It to add that. It's just my first glance. Anyhow, I appreciate this education.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Sarah Marrinan “The council requested a discussion paper to assess the viability and enforceability of regulatory mechanisms to reduce bottom contact of pelagic trawl gear in areas is currently closed to non-pelagic trawl gear while still meeting the legal requirements such as maintaining optimal yield for the fisheries and minimizing salmon bycatch. The council stated its focus in the purpose of this action was working to prevent and reduce uncertainty around unobserved crab mortality from interactions with fishing gear.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Shannon Carroll “I think it's important to recognize that there's no fishery that has zero impact on the seafloor or the habitat, and I think the way the council's approaching it is that they're not looking to mandate zero contact. They're looking to minimize uncertainty with regards to unobserved mortality and seafloor contact.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Nicole Kimball “We can't force anyone to do that absent a regulation, but it's a request that we put out there saying this is pretty important to the Council. And so that was done in 2026 and will be done again in 2027 in the A season in particular, since that's where there's overlap with the fishery.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Marit Carlson-Van Dort “my interest particularly, and why I'm sitting here today, is the application to state waters fisheries and the jurisdiction that the Board of Fisheries has. And so while this information is fantastic and it certainly builds confidence in the federal fishery, the question that I'm interested in is how does that apply, or can it be applied, is it being applied to state waters areas?”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Brad Harris “We're looking to see 90% of a core EFH area for a given species undisturbed. That's a threat. That's a really high threshold for determining what is minimum, especially with the scope and scale of our fisheries.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Brad Harris “we would rather overestimate impacts and get it wrong in that direction be overly careful than to underestimate impacts.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Tom Carpenter “I think the modifications that you all have come up with in regards to reducing that footprint and the efficiency, if it's still being able to be maximized, is a great accomplishment.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Shannon Carroll “if this EFP were to become legal under regulation and used, then it would be integrated into Brad's work through the, his team's work through the fishing effects model, and then ultimately into Jodi's work on the EFH analysis.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Brad Harris “Whether it's the thing you want to catch, the thing you don't want to catch, or the habitat you don't want to disturb, everything comes back to the gear.”

NPFMC: Joint Protocol Meeting Presentations · Oct 20, 2026

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Heather Haugland

“I especially think if it's an issue that you don't have enough services to meet the demand and that residents are having to give up a bed or, you know, an appointment. For the sake of the visitors, that's something that would be bothersome, that would be a problem.”

Seward: Planning & Zoning Work Session 10/20/2026 · Oct 20, 2026

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Lori Draper “would a study— if you did a study, would it be limited to inside the city limits, or would it say— you know, in Seward, anyone who stays or eats or anything outside of the city limits is not paying bed tax, is not paying sales tax.”

Seward: Planning & Zoning Work Session 10/20/2026 · Oct 20, 2026

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Lori Draper “What about impacts on our medical system from the visitor industry?”

Seward: Planning & Zoning Work Session 10/20/2026 · Oct 20, 2026

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Heather Haugland

“we're happy to— whatever you guys want as a scope, you know, we're flexible. Yeah, just let me know next steps, you know, whether it's— maybe you guys can prepare like a list of outcomes that you would be interested in and we can provide some scoping and budgeting language.”

Seward: Planning & Zoning Work Session 10/20/2026 · Oct 20, 2026