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

Julie Lu

“by code we have— we, we had to look at what the investment earnings of the enhancement fund was for the fiscal year, and then we also had to calculate what the inflation-proofing amount is by looking at the last 5 years of inflation rates. So it came out to be that the investment earnings was greater than the inflation-proofing amount, and as such, the code stipulates that we have to transfer, um, the difference between the earnings and inflation amount to the general fund, provided that the general fund does not have— does not have a deficit. So in FY26, we are anticipating the general fund to have deficits. So as such, we transferred about $1.14 million from the— from the earnings of the enhancement fund to the general fund, and that essentially helped to reduce the shortfall, uh, of the general fund.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Eileen Fitzgerald

“And a lot of them are related to the sinking of the Wild Alaskan. I think there's a lot of conversations about that, and for a long time I just let them happen, but then I started deciding that maybe I should see what people are talking about.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Eileen Fitzgerald

“I'm asking you, please, to improve the transparency and candor of the community going forward.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Julie Lu

“this report based, um, covers all the tax, um, sales tax and hotel motel tax, um, because the June quarter sales tax is due, uh, at the end of July. So usually we wait because then there might be some that are late that trickles in in August. So the number that you have there includes both the sales tax from that we collect directly as well as the sales tax collected by the Remote Sellers Sales Tax Commission.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Eileen Fitzgerald

“That auto shop is not on subsidized property. That auto shop is not doing city contracts. And Julie Liu is suing them for 506% more. And to be clear, that does not include penalties, fees, interest, or anything. That is the straight-up tax that she calculated.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Eileen Fitzgerald

“I would just ask you to be really careful and make sure that the city is not engaging in arbitrary and capricious actions then or going forward.”

Kodiak: October 8, 2026, Work Session · Oct 8, 2026

Kenneth Hughes “Yes. Motion carries.”

Nome Common Council Meeting - Election Canvass and Certification · Oct 8, 2026

Kenneth Hughes “Chair, I'll entertain a motion to adopt. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Motion made by Council Member Johnson, seconded by Council Member Lust. Is there any discussion on the resolution?”

Nome Common Council Meeting - Election Canvass and Certification · Oct 8, 2026

Kenneth Hughes “Item B, Resolution 26-10-01, a resolution canvassing the results of October 6th, 2026 annual municipal election.”

Nome Common Council Meeting - Election Canvass and Certification · Oct 8, 2026

Lauren Howard “Element 5: Waive the prior notice of landing requirement and restricted unload hours for small IFQ deliveries.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“Over 750,000 pounds of CQE sablefish and halibut combined went unfished in 2025.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Duncan Fields

“you should identify as a primary discussion alternative the inclusion or the identification of the qualified CQEs as similar to A-share quota holders with the opportunity to identify and use hired masters. That solves many of the in-season transfer issues.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“Those tables should be revised and ADAC should be treated as an outlier within the CQE. CQ program because that's what it is, Mr. Chair.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Duncan Fields

“the reason they're unique is because of their distance and their lack of a local processor. And currently only a very small economic core to that community. But I have optimism, and consequently, I think ADAC should be treated different, at least for a period of time. They shouldn't have vessel limits, they shouldn't have individual limits”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Duncan Fields

“We're suggesting that we expand that cap to consider up to 3% of the available quota share in Area 3A, 3B, 2C combined, which is, for analysis purposes, 6 times the current quota.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“only 1.7% of the AI TAC in 2025 was harvested.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“With this cap and holdings in 2025, it would take 13 vessels to harvest their quota. Which is now 14 vessels with the quota— amount of quota that's held in 2026.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Duncan Fields

“it lost its processor, and it had an allocation of POLIC, an allocation of COD, both of which were now limited because there was no processor in ADAC.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Lauren Howard “While the CQE program was designed to create greater access for for GOA communities. Over the past 2 decades, the high cost of halibut IFQ and administrative burden of starting and managing a CQE has limited its success.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“It was stated that this cap is a barrier to full harvest of the CQE sablefish IFQ as current holdings would require 13 unique vessels to to fully harvest this CQE group's full sablefish quota share.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Lauren Howard “With the CQE quota quote, you transfer it, and it leaves your eFish, it goes to the other person's eFish, and you have no idea their status of fishing. So for a program that was meant to have a high level of administration, it seemed like it was a very large oversight”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Duncan Fields

“We have fished all of our quota consistently over the 14 or 15 years that we've had quota share. We represent about 85% now of the Area 3A quota. And so the statistics relative to the amount of quotas being fished by the CQEs are substantially skewed by the inclusion of the ADAC data.”

NPFMC October AP Meeting, Day 2, 10.08.2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “I did want to offer Co-chair Dybert opportunity if you have any closing remarks as the House co-chair.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Donna Mears “I'm very concerned that we've got a short timeframe with this administration and things are going to get shoved through and that's unacceptable.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “This has been a very— I'm going to say the word rushed process.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “So he is declining to be present today also. However, we have Mr. Randy Raro, Executive Director of the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, otherwise known as AIDA, present.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “Shortly after arranging this meeting, I received a message from Commissioner John Krother, Department of Natural Resources, that his presence today had been denied by the governor. He operates, of course, under the governor's leadership. Then yesterday, after the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee, I was informed that Director Brian Butcher was out of state at a conference and had accepted a dinner engagement at this time.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “We have no information yet in response from the Department of Natural Resources.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Mike Prax “I didn't notice that there was any discussion of other potential locations for what Ada is proposing.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “Our next meeting, I'm announcing right now, is for the Senate Resources Committee. So a few members are still here. That's going to be on October 14th at 10 AM here in this room, as well as on Teams. The subject of that meeting will be the DNR public and charitable use conveyances and the options relating to the appearance of executive branch officials.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “Unfortunately, the commissioner from the Department of Revenue— Department of Natural Resources, who would have this information, was denied access to this meeting by the governor. So I can't answer that question right now. We will, of course, pursue his attendance at another time.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “We haven't had time today, nor has AHFC, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, been present, but there are the 4 conveyances made to AHFC allegedly for low and medium level housing for folks. Again, very vague.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Maxine Dibert “I learned a lot today about some of the flaws here and just hearing the story of land conveyances.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

Cathy Giessel “we also asked for DNR to respond to that letter, the committee's previous letter, and also the legal memo provided by our nonpartisan attorneys. And, um, we have received no response yet.”

Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - October 8, 2026 1:00pm · Oct 8, 2026

“We return halibut to sea, as quickly as possible with a minimum of injury, and we focus on trying to return larger halibut that have a higher viability to sea quickly.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“This EFP does not increase bycatch limits. This EFP does not create new changes or new modifications to regulations other than allowing trawl catcher processors under this limited test to donate halibut. It doesn't change camera requirements, doesn't change monitoring requirements, and it's done in compliance and consistency with the Observer Program.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“we would be focusing just on those halibut that we can hold and retain after they've gone through that full and complete sampling process, and we've basically undertaken all reasonable steps to try and minimize halibut bycatch and mortality.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Therese Vicente

“it's not that we're not in favor of adaptive measures, it's that they shouldn't replace and remove static closures to reduce bycatch and protect critical areas for salmon and other species.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“The primary question to be answered in this kind of analysis is whether the magnitude and location of Atka mackerel removals in these locations is significant enough to cause demographic consequences to the current level of Steller sea lion population numbers in a small portion of the Aleutian Islands.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“in the United States, you have 1 in every 8 people are food insecure, but in Alaska, it's 1 in every 6. Weeks, and it's 1 in every 5 children who are experiencing hunger. Um, disproportionately this affects, um, people in rural communities, coastal Alaska, uh, particularly Western Alaska.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Angel Drobnica “Static closure areas are the opposite of adaptive management, and they do not recognize changing ecosystems, updated climate events and changing fishery practices and dynamics. Periodic evaluation is therefore critical.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“Ocean Conservancy urges that the council take no action towards initiating a reevaluation of stellar sea lion protection boundaries. The potential risks of reducing these long-standing protections are substantial while the demonstrated benefits to the associated fisheries are limited at best.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Hannah Lindhoff

“So we, we are trying to make sure that we serve Western Alaska communities when we distribute halibut. We have a program now where we have funding to purchase seafood. And so I think last year we did over 400,000 pounds of donations throughout Alaska, most of which was not from the PSC program, and almost none of which was halibut because halibut is expensive”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“Ocean Conservancy urges the Council to take no action to reevaluate the current Steller sea lion protection areas.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“We would be looking at allowing donations of up to 5,000 net pounds from the Northern Glacier only, and only when she's participating in that Bering Sea Yellowfin Sole, TLAS, fishery.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Hannah Lindhoff

“our plan to make sure that all donated halibut comes back to Alaska communities from now on because of the health benefits of halibut, particularly its high vitamin D content, which is so important in our northern climate.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

Angel Drobnica “Groundfish Forum is here today to request that the council prioritize review and modification of Stellar Sea Lion closure areas by initiating a targeted action on 8 identified closure locations in the Aleutian Islands.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

“regulations established by Canada and the United States require that halibut that are caught by trawl vessels must must be returned to sea, and it's been that way for decades.”

NPFMC 280 Day 1 - October 8, 2026 · Oct 8, 2026

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