"When you don't do stock assessment surveys, you know what happens? My fishermen can't fish," Sullivan said.
Lots more in this press release from Sullivan's office.
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4 comments:
Pollock survey not done...Trident...American Seafoods.
"They don't want subsidies. They just want to fish."
Where has Sullivan been the last 50 years, with all the fleets begging for subsidies that started in the '70s.
I'm glad Sullivan is finally showing some concern for prioritizing science in fisheries, but this quote from the press release got me steamed: "...Biden was horrible on the surveys. Horrible. We threw a ton of money at NOAA and the guy did climate change and all this BS. He didn't do the blocking and tackling of NOAA, which is stock assessment surveys." What a pack of lies! And how is "blocking and tackling" a metaphor for surveys (which we did get done under Biden)? It just shows how ignorant he and others are of what goes into fisheries science. How can anyone with even a tiny bit of experience in Alaska fisheries not understand how important it is to understand the impacts of climate change?
Climate change isn't the issue, 9:23, the North Pacific Oscillation pattern was figured out in 1932, by Walker and Bliss. Nobody's read a real stock assessment since, and we all know that nowadays Ignorance is Bliss. Even NASA reports on the massive increase in ice mass in Antarctica over the past 10 years, and the Earth's spin cycle is just like politics. Check out the population growth in Alaska since 1959. Too many user groups is the real problem. Let's add a few more. That way, anybody with even a tiny bit of experience can fish it all into extinction. With the National Park Service holding early registration for fish wheel permits on the Copper River, how's that stock assessment doing at Chitina, for next week's fish wheel opener?
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