Well, I have been doing this for twenty-eight years. And although there are a lot of negative things about it, the plusses far outweigh the negatives. Being able to do this, being able to watch the resource, how it has responded. It's been just fantastic. We were given a lot of latitude with statehood.
Conservation is a key part of Alaska.
And if you don't have conservation, you're not going to be able to have fish for the future, whether it's in-season management or it's some other type of thing. You've gotta be able to shut down the fisheries when things aren't right. That way, when things are right, you have exceptional fisheries. You are monitoring both escapement and catch. If you don't have some idea of how much you're catching, you don't know what you are taking out of the resource.