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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Dan Sullivan
“I relentlessly worked on getting a ban on all Russian seafood into the United States of America. This took relentless work.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“And now we are going after China with regard to the same ban. Why? Because Russian trawlers, Chinese trawlers ravage the ocean. They compete unfairly, and they have been, um, going after our markets.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“I am very proud of the, uh, trawling bill, the bycatch bill that I introduced when I was in the Congress, the 2 years that I served in Congress in the minority.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“This war in Iran is driving up our gas and diesel prices. Dan Sullivan has voted for the war in Iran over 10 times.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“Dan Sullivan voted He went right along with all these dogecuts, mowing down federal employees that we rely on. These agencies weren't fully staffed to begin with. Alaska has taken more cuts on federal employees percentage-wise than any other state”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“10 times the current senator has voted for this war in Iran.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“my opponent has been saying she was against that law, which I think is remarkable.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“we've got to make sure that the USDA Office of Seafood doesn't become the Dan Sullivan Office of Farmed Fish.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“10 Times he's voted to jack up our prices. This is a direct link to the Strait of Hormuz”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“Magnuson-Stevens does need to be revised to curtail bycatch, Standards, national standards 4, 8, and 9 do need to be tightened up. We Alaskans, almost all of us agree on this. Alaska Natives should have 1 or 2 seats on the council.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“This is the one place where Congress, Alaskans, has an opportunity to say, no, this is a man-made impact. We have the ability to, to address this systemically.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“My opponent would empower a Seattle, Washington-based senator to be the next chairman of the Commerce Committee. Any opportunity to get bycatch bills passed, including mine, would be automatically undermined if you had the chairman of the Commerce Committee being from Washington State. That's who my opponent is looking to empower.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“During my opponent's first term in Congress, she did not introduce one bill dealing with fish. In two terms in Congress, she did not have one bill signed into law. I had 63 signed into law in two terms, many focused on strengthening our fisheries.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Mary Peltola
“Alaskans know the difference between a senator who fights for fish and one who fishes for donations. That's why I've not taken a single dollar from out-of-state corporate trawlers and why I've never owned a share of stock in a farmed fish company.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“When the Congresswoman was in office for 2 terms, she never introduced any bill to, uh, get this into law. She didn't introduce a companion bill of mine. Actually, after she lost in 2024, in December of 2024, she introduced a bill to finally do this. Talk about too late.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“which set the stage for my comprehensive bycatch Bycatch Reduction Act, which we will be bringing to vote on in the Commerce Committee next week. The one way in which we will not get any bycatch legislation done is if the senators from Seattle who support and have fundraised for my opponent become the chairman of the Commerce Committee.”LIVE: 2026 Alaska Congressional Fisheries Debates · Sep 13, 2026
Tory Sullivan
“The regulations would have restricted Area M salmon fisheries and ended an adaptive management program that allowed fishing while reducing, reducing June chum salmon harvest to conserve Yukon, Kuskokwim chum salmon stocks.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Treg Taylor
“So I think they got it right, um, in what, what occurred there. I've also received complaints from Alaskans over and over and over again about the unbalance that currently exists on the board. And as your governor, I promise that I will appoint people to the board that are going to put Alaskans first and that they're going to be fair and open-minded to all users of the resource.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“we'll talk about bycatch, we'll talk about allocation issues, we will talk about trawling, we'll talk about conflicts of interest with the Board of Fish, we'll talk about the importance of a Commissioner of Fish and Game.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“I've been concerned in recent years that we have lost balance on the Board of Fish and I'm very committed as governor to nominate Alaskans, qualified Alaskans, to serve on the board from all those user groups to make sure that there is fair and equal balance across those user groups.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Tory Sullivan
“In May, the Attorney General, the Alaska Attorney General, voided 5 Board of Fisheries regulations adopted by the board in February 2026 due to violations of the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Treg Taylor
“we have to end practices that destroy our habitat, period. We have to end practices that destroy our habitat. And we've got to get a handle on, on bycatch issues throughout the state.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Gary Stevens
“Will you hire a dedicated fisheries advisor?”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“Number one, rates of Chinook and chum bycatch, especially 10 or 20 years ago, were extremely elevated. They've come down a lot since, but in past decades, very, very high rates of Chinook and chum bycatch”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“A North Star for me on Board of Fish nominations from the governor is making sure that there's balance on the Board of Fish. Balance.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Treg Taylor
“But I think you, I don't think I would put someone that's actively involved in the commercial fishing industry on the board. Now if you're retired, if you're no longer working in that industry, I think that they bring a lot of expertise”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“When you have 5 out of 7 members at, you know, any particular point that belong to one industry or another, clearly there's a problem. I do think that we need to appoint and have a review process and committee that can really look at what is the process for appointing, We need to have conversations about, is it time to increase membership from 7 to 9? Is it time to have those representatives be regionally representative of the different areas of the state? We need to make sure that they absolutely do not have conflicts of interest.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins
“salmon don't observe, you know, as though they were, you know, lines on the map that, you know, we've drawn international boundaries and borders, and what happens in the high seas and beyond US federal waters is a little bit of a black box.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“Fish camps are closed. They've been closed now, I think, for 6 years, and their cultures are being lost there. Because there's no salmon.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Gary Stevens
“And all 4 candidates have said yes.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Treg Taylor
“I want to make sure that people also realize that the board cannot subvert its own promise, the public process, and also its own regulations. To achieve an end.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“So again, I support the notion that if the legislature would come and propose legislation, I would be willing to expand the board to 11 members if at all possible, because then that's how you get— without the seats there, you can't get the representation.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“Something's got to be done because what we're doing under this science isn't working.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“we need to talk about bottom trawlers, the big corporate trawlers where you've got, you know, boats that are up to 295 feet long and 3,000 horsepower, and having a conversation about that versus, you know, the mom and pops.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Bernadette Wilson
“some will tell you that hatcheries saved their particular industry. You have others that will tell you that the hatcheries you know, killed off the natural stock.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“we blame water temperature, we blame other things like this that we can't control. That doesn't mean you, you don't control the things that you, you can control.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“So the short answer is yes. Would, would I welcome, uh, commercial experience? Yes, I would. But the board should probably be the same size as the NPFMC. It should be about 11 people so we get that, those, those, all those voices”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026
Dave Bronson
“I've called for a ban on trawling, especially bottom trawling, in the 3-mile zone. I know that's gonna be painful for some folks.”LIVE from Kodiak, Alaska | 2026 Alaska Gubernatorial Fisheries Debate · Sep 9, 2026