Alaska's Fisheries Are Collapsing. This Congresswoman Is Taking on the Industry She Says Is to Blame

[SonofDonald]

41. And we have a winner !

You are correct, I see the word Vegan in your name so I can guess where you’re coming from but that’s the right answer.

The OP talks about the subsistence fishermen/women not being left anything to feed their family’s due to the greed of the powers that be, when you can’t feed your family and are told it’s just the way it is you realize that the reasons they state are nothing but lies.

The fisheries in question are about profit only, they need locals to work in the canneries and processing plants but other than that they don’t care about them.

The fish they take aren’t used to lessen the pangs of hunger anywhere, they are used to make bank accounts larger and when the people in charge destroy the fishery there’s zero accountability for them or their company’s, I’ve watched that happen since 1979 when I moved to Alaska.

They will take a fishery all the way to the edge of extinction before any thought of being a responsible Shepard of it even enters their mind.

They watch it all go downhill, shutter the factory’s and wait until they are allowed to start up the business of raping the ocean again, it’s all about money.



You are correct, if we stopped buying their product it will have repercussions but the real problem is that a huge percentage of what the take from the sea doesn’t end up on the tables of Americans but is shipped overseas to Asia, this is the way it is and always has been.

They need to close the fishery for a few years and hopefully it will recover, I have seen that happen before but with crab, they closed the King Crab fishery in 1983 due to the overfishing of it since about 1976.

I fished the King Crab season in 1984 on the F/V ROLLO, the biomass was so huge that we intercepted the “nursery” on most days, the “Nursery” is the biomass of female crab and the millions of baby crabs that follow the male crabs across the ocean floor in their seasonal movement.

But then of course the crab fisheries are now all closed, so it did recover until they overfished it again, same as it ever was.

I think about the people I met and lived amongst for two decades in Alaska that are the real victims of this debacle, life is hard enough up there without a foreign owned company coming in and destroying the fisheries that have kept them and their family’s alive for generations.

And getting away with it with no repercussions.