Reminds me of when Don Thomas was fired by Ducks Unlimited for supporting public access after pressure from a major DU donor. Occasionally the money makes an organization lose their compass.
Pinks give me the creeps. They have a really high amount of enzymes in them and they turn to goo if they are not processed quickly. When I was buying fish we would get boats delivering that had held pinks too long and they would be like jello oozing out of the brailler bags. They are best used...
Pay close attention if you were planning to fish kings in Alaska this year. Bunch of emergency closures just hit due to lack-o-fish.
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sf/EONR/index.cfm?ADFG=region.R2
I remember hand marking and stamping 6-10 copies of construction submittals. Then driving like heck for USPS, FedX or UPS depending on what time it was so you could still get them on the outgoing mail to the architect. There was no overnight delivery and no email!
What I also find irritating is their public relations campaign selling that cod fishing is sustainable and wild caught while whitewashing over the bycatch devastation when caught by factory trawlers. There are excellent ways to catch cod that are sustainable with greatly reduced bycatch like...
Yes! that graph is amazing. The other indicator that would be interesting would be to see the Pacific Ocean temperature norms on the graph. I think that total ocean carrying capacity might vary with temperature. Only Alaska would approve of creaming high value fisheries in favor of garbage...
I just don’t see as a nation or as sportsmen that we can be silent. The trawl fleet is allowed to kill and waste more crab than the commercial crab fleet is allowed to catch. Same with halibut. Sports fishing doesn’t even register but we keep getting cut back. Time to boycott McDonalds in force.
A couple years ago scammers got ahold of our CFOs info and came close to convincing our bank to transfer close to $1M to a different accounts payable. Luckily the bankers know us and called to verify what we were doing. Now both the bank and us have all kinds of procedures in place to change...