In a wide-ranging conversation, Molly and Tom talked about:

• Molly’s work as a “senior harried environmental lawyer” working on “the most interesting wildlife ecosystems” in the world: fisheries.
• Why fisheries management is a data-hungry and science-hungry process
• How the Magnuson Stevens Act has evolved from its roots (stopping foreign fishing off U.S. shores) to broadly managing America’s wild fisheries for the long term
• Why working waterfronts and workforce development for small-boat commercial fishermen are conservation issues too

And of course, much much more!

Referenced in the Chat:

• Molly’s recent blog post
• Ken Hinman’s recent post

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Some highlights from the conversation:

• Why the magic of working in fisheries is that instead of saying “no”, it’s “yes, with some boundaries”.
• The tension involved in the relationship between fishermen and scientists, since fishermen are experts in finding exactly where the fish are and catching as many as possible, while science is trying to find exactly how many fish there actually are.
• Why the Magnuson Stevens Act is fundamentally optimistic, since it looks at a wild ecosystem and saying “we can get this right.”
• How if we can get the balance right, the MSA can help us live somewhat gently on top of the ecosystem but still benefit from it. Fisheries are the only large-scale wild ecosystem we have a food source!
• Why the current council system may not be perfect, but it gives a voice to people who are invested in the industry.

And as always, much much more!

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s CEO Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life. Join the Network’s email list to learn about future Chats. You can also watch past Chats and subscribe to the podcast on the Network’s website. 

In a wide-ranging discussion, Theresa and host Tom Sadler talked about:

• How Theresa grew up fishing for striped bass and tuna from her family boat off Rhode Island
• Her new role as president of Wild Oceans, an organization originally founded by recreational fishermen who saw the effects of overfishing in Northeastern U.S. waters
• Why healthy fisheries doin’t exist in isolation — they’re part of a larger ecosystem affected by our actions
• Why we have an obligation to treat this resource with respect and to steward it for future generations
• Why the Magnuson Stevens Act is one of the most important marine resources laws ever put in place, why it drives innovation, and how updates over the years since its passage have made it stronger
• The power of the Marine Fish Conservation Network to bring together diverse stakeholders, from commercial and recreational fishermen to chefs and scientists, and why the decision to create it gets validated over and over

And of course, much more! Watch the video for the full experience. Look for more Waterside Chats in the months to come, and be sure to check out our recent conversation with sustainable fishmonger Lyf Gildersleeve.

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s CEO Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life. Join the Network’s email list to learn about future Chats. You can also watch past Chats and subscribe to the podcast on the Network’s website. 

Among many topics, Lyf and Tom talked about:

• How cooking classes help bring people closer to their food so they can make better choices in the future
• Why it’s so important to move beyond the “big four” seafood species that dominate American tables
• How the regulatory framework created by the Magnuson Stevens Act creates an evolving framework that adds stability to coastal communities
• A new Monterrey Bay Aquarium program for restaurants that lets them put a label on menus for specific dishes made only with sustainable and environmentally responsible ingredients — which encourages customers to ask other restaurants about THEIR ingredients
• Why fishmongers feel such a connection to the sea, and why they’re the perfect messengers to educate chefs (and ultimately the public) about sustainable, local seafood options

And of course, much much more! 

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life. Join the Network’s email list to learn about future Chats. You can also watch past Chats and subscribe to the podcast on the Network’s website. 

In a wide-ranging discussion, Jamie and Tom talked about:

• How Jamie’s reporting helped stop a Disney theme park because there wasn’t enough water available
• How catch-share systems make fishing safer and encourage long-term stewardship
• Why such rights-based approaches to fisheries can build trust and confidence among people who would otherwise be fighting with each other, providing a model that can work in many places where people compete for scarce, depletable resources
• How scientists, advocates and fishermen can move from an adversarial to a symbiotic, collaborative relationship

And of course, much more!

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Tim is SalmonState’s executive director, and he has had a long career in environment conservation, having worked for Trout Unlimited in Alaska, the Alaska Coalition, the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, and the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition. He is a recipient of the Alaska Conservation Foundation’s Olas Murie Award for outstanding professional contributions to conservation.

Tim and Waterside Chat host Tom Sadler talked about Tim’s conservation journey, his work with SalmonState, the campaigns SalmonState has going on, and what the next few years with a new congress and administration may entail. They covered:

• Why fishing with his father — and a childhood close to infamous Superfund site Love Canal — directed Tim towards conservation
• How recognition of the recreational value of forests helps us move away from logging-first and towards a mix of uses, including tourism, water quality, Native Alaskan subsistence AND logging
• How SalmonState, as a group of communicators, connectors and conveners, brings together abroad swath of communities, salmon markters, indigenous communities, commercial fishermen and more
• The importance of illustrating stories in a way that’s evocative — “The showing rather than telling is critical”
• Why bycatch is a massive threat to Alaska salmon, and why restraining it is not an easy problem to solve
• The importance of the Tongass, America’s “salmon forest”, whose economic value for fishing far outstrips the value that would be realized from logging or road-building
• Updates on mining activity that threatens Alaska salmon runs, including new uncertainty under the current administration

And of course, much much more!

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• How she became an outdoor journalist despite shyness and a childhood fear of people with beards
• How she spent a summer in a camper following salmon from the ocean to their spawning streams in Idaho
• The physical toll migration takes on salmon -- and on a filmmaker following them
• The difference between a situation that makes you uncomfortable and one that's actually unsafe
• The one thing everyone does when they come face to face with a grizzly
• Why it's so important to capture all points of view on a topic as controversial as dam removal in the West
• Why storytellers need to meet people where they are, understanding that they may take in information in different ways via different media
• Her newest project, Sage Wisdom West, which follows sage grouse in the high desert, "a fantastic landscape that sustains perhaps more wildlife than the mountains"

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Among many great topics, Brian and Tom talked about:

• Wild Steelhead as Pacific coast icon and watershed health indicator (the fish spawn in climate zones ranging from from high desert to temperate rainforest)
• The work of the Wild Steelhead Coalition and the Now or Never Campaign
• The need to build a robust army of wild steelhead supporters as devoted to preserving the fish as they are to catching them, particularly as the climate changes around us
• How a wild steelhead is a rainbow trout that goes to sea to feed, and how the fish return not just to the same stream to spawn, but to the same spot in the stream
• How wild steelhead populations are at 3% of historical levels in Washington state, due to warming waters, habitat loss, harvesting and more
• Why a big pink salmon year in the Pacific means fewer wild steelhead in Idaho
• How steelhead have been around for millennia and have been able to adapt to many environmental changes, but they have not been able to adapt to the genetic impacts of hatchery-raised fish
• How rainbow trout start going out to sea as soon as we remove dams and other obstacles, making stream trout a genetic bank for the species
• How the species and the industry need us to create a long-term plan for survival in the face of climate change
• Why if you’re in the fishing space, whether as a consumer, fisherman or brand, you have a responsibility to conserve the species

Also in this episode: The Adipose podcast, with the Linda Mapes interview mentioned in the Chat taking place on October 02, 2024.

The Marine Fish Conservation Network's Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network's Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life. Join the Network's email list to learn about future Chats. You can also watch past Chats and subscribe to the podcast on the Network's website.

• Eating with the Ecosystem, the work they do, and how they are a nonprofit that started as a food gathering
• Their place-based approach to sustaining wild seafood
• How bribing people with delicious seafood is a good way to get them to the table
• Working with members from all parts of the local seafood supply chain
• Why one of the best things you can do for sustainability is to eat a variety of ocean species
• Why you’re connecting directly with the oceans when you’re eating local seafood, and why it’s better for people to choose seafood from their local area
• Creating a Roadmap for Climate-Resilient Seafood Supply Chains
• And of course, much more

The Marine Fish Conservation Network's Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network's Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life. Join the Network's email list to learn about future Chats. You can also watch past Chats and subscribe to the podcast on the Network's website.

• How our seafood system has changed from mostly local or domestic to mostly imported in a few short decades
• How we've become so dependent on an industrialized food system that we don't know where our food is coming from
• The power of One Fish Foundation's Know Your Fish dinners, which connect seafood consumers with the people who catch their food and start people on the path to owning their relationship with seafood
• How One Fish Foundation goes to schools, including bringing a lobster trap to a kindergarten class
• Why "good, clean and fair" should be a sustainable-seafood mantra
• The important role of chefs in the seafood conversation
• How consolidation in the seafood-distribution industry hurts local fishermen
• And much, much more!

IN THIS EPISODE:

• One Fish Foundation 

MORE ABOUT COLLES:

Colles Stowell's love of fish, fishing and food started early. From the Louisiana bayous of his youth, he moved on to New Hampshire's lakes and rivers and trout streams, world-class salmon rivers in Canada, and bonefish flats in the Bahamas. Along the way, he discovered a passion both for local seafood and for writing.

Stowell's journalism career includes writing for The Boston Globe, United Press International and New Hampshire Public Radio. He began covering sustainable fisheries and seafood in 2011, and he now focuses on issues ranging from privatization of our oceans to the devastating impact of the proposed Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

Of the One Fish Foundation, Colles says, "Starting the Foundation is the confluence of my career and personal passions. My deep-seated interest in fisheries and in striking the right balance to support well-managed fisheries, transparent, local seafood systems, and healthy oceans for future generations drives One Fish Foundation."

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• How a Snoopy rod & reel led Mark to a life of salmon
• How he started at the bottom of the film world to learn how to create his own movies
• Why he considers our destruction of salmon habitat as a breach of our contract with nature (hence the title of his first film)
• Ongoing threats to salmon habitat in Alaska, including more litigation over Pebble Mine and toxic mining chemicals leaching into waters in Canada and flowing into the U.S.
• How Eva's Wild, his salmon-distribution company, grew out of a food truck that accompanied his film screenings and featured wild Alaska salmon
• How the company gives part of its profits to Indigenous-led efforts to protect and restore salmon habitat, supporting a sustainable economy based on a regenerative resource
• The words of Indigenous leader Billy Frank Jr., who said, "As the salmon go, we go"
• And, of course, much more!

In this episode:

• Connect with Eva's Wild: https://evaswild.com/pages/connect
• Links to Mark's projects, including YouTube links for The Breach and The Wild: https://linktr.ee/markdtitus

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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• The status of the Pebble Mine fight, which now moves to a federal district court, though Melanie hopes for an eventual legislative solution
• How she was born into a fishing family, with her great-great grandfather still fishing when she started at ten years old (she got her permit from him when he retired) and her children following her
• Her work with SalmonState, which grew out of Trout Unlimited's original organizing against Pebble Mine and now covers other issues in the Bering Sea and waters around Alaska, particularly bycatch
• How the Pebble Fight brought together sport fishing interests, commercial fishing interests and Alaska's First People  around protecting Bristol Bay
• How mining development in Canada threatens U.S. waters, because "everything flows downstream"
• The status of Magnuson-Stevens reauthorization, plus the work to derail a late Trump administration rule that would open 28 million acres of land to mining and oil & gas exploration
• How wild salmon and other species including caribou play a big role in feeding people in Alaska, particularly the state's First People

And much, much more!

Mentioned in this Episode:

• SalmonState: https://salmonstate.org/
• Help keep protections in place for over 28 million acres: https://www.alaskalands.org/take-action
• About the Magnuson-Stevens Act and its bipartisan tradition: https://conservefish.org/healthy-oceans/magnuson-stevens-act-upholding-a-legacy-of-success/

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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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• How "if you are what you eat", Kevin has become a salmon many times over
• How salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest are hurt by bad management practices on dry land ("What runs off the land is how the land talks to the water")
• How to work with landowners in a market-based program to improve their practices and help them earn a "Salmon Safe" designation
• How this model can be applied to other species and other places, which is why he's recently been working with fishermen in Japan and Hawaii
• How using local resources to solve local problems can help keep food systems (and people!) working during times of duress
• Why you have to be a dreamer and an optimist to keep fishing

Listen to the full conversation to hear about these topics and much more!

Mentioned in this Chat:

https://salmonsafe.org/
https://wavefoundation.org/
https://localcatch.org

Watch this Chat on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhJjuhgs_4
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The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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Among many other topics, Jean and Tom discussed:

• Why our food supply, coastal communities, coral reefs and more are threatened as the ocean warms and acidifies
• Why if we want a livable planet for our children, we can no longer kick the climate can down the road
• The Biden administration’s commitment to addressing climate change’s effects on our oceans, and how they are following through on it, including historic sums allocated for coastal-community resilience, electrification of ports and much more
• Why NMFS needs to be doing a lot more to support fisheries managers in addressing the challenges climate change presents to our fisheries
• How the Ocean Defense Initiative focuses on the idea of amplifying ocean issues, to help them break through with decision-makers
• How Blueprint for Ocean Climate Action was crowdsourced from a wide swath of advocates, scientists and activists

Learn more:

• The Urban Ocean Lab
• The Blueprint for Ocean Climate Action

• Don’t Cage Our Oceans' approach to open-ocean aquaculture policy and advocacy
• Why Don't Cage Our Oceans argues that open-ocean, fin-fish aquaculture is neither economical nor sustainable
• The downsides of open-ocean fin-fish farms, from nitrogen and carbon pollution to antibiotic releases and risks to marine mammals
• The comparison between open-ocean fish farms and factory farms on land
• The need for fish-farming practices that are embedded in social, economic, and environmental values -- projects that provide nutritious fish to local residents, support the environment, and bring coastal communities more opportunities

Learn more about Don’t Cage Our Oceans: https://dontcageouroceans.org/

The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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• How despite years of fisheries conservation successes, the Gulf is telling us it's in trouble. Populations of fish such as gag grouper have declined to their lowest level on record, prompting huge cuts in fishing quotas.
• The need for ecosystem management rather than managing individual species in isolation.
• The need for fisheries managers to have experience in fisheries management or on the water. The Gulf management council has more people named "Bob" serving on it right now than it does actual commercial fishermen.
• How the Shareholder Alliance’s Quota Bank that helps reduce red snapper discards in the eastern Gulf by holding participants to a high standard of accountability in a market-based system.
• The Alliance's policy work to support good science and data, to educate regional and federal regulators, and to play an active role in shaping our commercial fishing regulations.
• Their work with the Gulf Wild brand program, supporting a seafood traceability program built by fishermen for fishermen.
• How the Alliance fosters the next generation of conservation-minded fishermen.
• The complex effects of climate change on Gulf fish populations.

More about the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders' Alliance: https://shareholdersalliance.org/

More about the Gulf Wild program: https://gulfwild.com/

The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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• Northwest Guides and Anglers Association
• The Association of Northwest Steelheaders
• Northwest Sportfishing Industry Association
• Team Spicy biggest fish winner video

The Marine Fish Conservation Network’s Waterside Chat series connects people who depend on healthy oceans and fisheries with the issues that directly affect them and their communities. Each episode the Network’s Deputy Director Tom Sadler talks with different guests about ocean policy and fisheries management topics. He engages them in genuine and thoughtful conversations about what policy decisions mean for people’s livelihoods, communities, recreation, and coastal ways of life.

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• How focusing on “sustainable maximum recreation” could put more fish in coolers and disarm the most extreme voices on all sides of the management debate.
• What the Tomorrow’s Fish campaign is and why it matters.
• Why we must make climate change part of every aspect of fisheries management.
• Why anglers must take the lead in advocating for management that adapts to climate, since they see the changes on the water themselves.

To Brian, 21st-century anglers must invest in helping to protect the resources they enjoy. For example, if you think the regulatory agency isn’t doing its job, you should be putting time into helping to make the agency better. Check out the full conversation for more.

• How Salmon-Safe certification involves setting science-based standards for sites in watersheds in the Pacific Northwest,  then working with growers, golf courses, construction projects, tech campuses, urban park systems and others to help them put fish-friendly practices into place.
• How the Salmon-Safe team makes sure the standards reflect the latest science around factors such as pesticide use, soil conservation, biodiversity and sediment runoff, with a singular focus on water quality and watershed impacts.
• Why companies are looking to source from Salmon-Safe certified farms, and how farmers can offset the costs of Salmon-Safe certification.
• How Salmon Safe's collaborative approach can be applied globally to protect trout, coral reefs and everything in between. Their work is based on partnerships.
• How companies such as Copperworks Distillery have built successful - and tasty - marketing campaigns around their Salmon-Safe certification (and where you can buy your Copperworks Salmon-Safe certified whiskey). 

Plus a few fishing tales along the way. Enjoy!

More about Salmon-Safe

About that whiskey...

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Tom and his guests talked about Alaĝum Kanuux (Heart of the Ocean) and the potential for this marine sanctuary in the Bering Sea off Alaska, including a historic co-management agreement between the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island and the federal government to establish co-equal governance and decision making for the sanctuary. Among many other topics, they discussed:

• The importance of the local community’s voice driving in the sanctuary nomination
• How the Aleut people’s history of forced migration, slavery and forced labor on the Pribilof Islands have shaped their approach to Alaĝum Kanuux’s proposal to co-manage the sanctuary with the federal government
• The powerful relationship local residents have with the region’s fur seals, whose population is unfortunately declining
• The islands’ boat-building heritage
• The importance of fishing to the islands, including the local long-line, small-boat commercial halibut fishing fleet
• How bycatch can shut down a whole fishery
• The economic and conservation implications of the resources and prominence that come with a sanctuary designation

For more on the islands’ history, Tom’s guests recommended “Slaves of the Harvest” (book, unfortunately out of print) and “People of the Seal” (YouTube video).

• How True Fin buys directly from more than 35 fishing boats in three states
• How high-quality fish-handling processes open new markets for seafood from the Gulf of Maine
• What the Japanese word ikejime means and why it’s relevant to their work
• How climate change is altering Gulf of Maine ecosystems, and why it means that the fishing industry needs to diversify into areas like under-utilized fin fish. Could lobsters eventually disappear from the Gulf?
• How new approaches could help smaller fisheries compete with massive seafood imports

• The EPA’s May 25th announcement of a proposed determination to prohibit and restrict the use of certain waters in the Bristol Bay watershed as disposal sites for the discharge of dredged or fill material associated with mining under Clean Water Act Section 404(c)
• Background on the Bristol Bay watershed, which supports some of the richest salmon fisheries on the planet, along with the people and wildlife who depend on them
• The threat posed by the proposed Pebble Mine
• Concrete actions you can take to help protect this vital resource and national treasure

• Rick’s love of the Low Country, and how his concern for his children’s future there drives his work. In his eyes, addressing climate change is fundamentally conservative.
• The everyday effects of a changing climate he sees in Charleston, South Carolina, including sunny-day flooding and changes in the tides.
• How he helps companies make the business case for sustainability.
• How fly fishing guides, shops, lodges and brands can be a model for other industries if the move to net-zero carbon emissions.

• How “origin-to-table” goes beyond “farm-to-table,” and why it’s important to know the traditions behind what’s on your plate.
• Why it is important to know your suppliers, from fishermen to distributors.
• The pros and cons of serving up roughly 85 different species of seafood in Chef Honn’s restaurant. (Most restaurants rotate among 10 different species on average.)
• Why improving seafood sustainability depends on building a stronger community.
• The secret to cooking good fish at home. (Hint: Aretha Franklin sang about it.)

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

• Why policy discussions should not be climate vs. jobs, but instead about climate AND jobs.
• Why Alaska is ground zero for climate change, and what Linda recommends the Biden administration do to ensure climate policy keeps pace with the changes she sees all around her.
• How shifting fish stocks are impacting Alaska’s Indigenous cultures and economies.
• How Linda’s sons are becoming part of the next generation of fishermen, and what ALFA and others are doing to ensure they carry the conservation torch and have a prosperous commercial fishing future.
• And much more.