We intend to support local sustainable fishing and to limit by catch by eliminating the use of trawlers in our coastal waters and consider the waste of fish as bycatch depleting our natural environment so severely they could be considered extremely harmful to everyone who lives in Alaska and the use of these fishing boats and techniques should be banned.
From Anthony Rubeo Outdoors,
“Did you know that current federal regulations allow Alaska’s industrial trawl fleet to legally kill up to 25 orcas per year statewide — and still be certified as “sustainable”?
Let that sink in for a second.
Twenty-five orcas. Every year.
And those are just the legal numbers.
These draggers — massive factory ships that tow nets the size of city blocks — are scraping up everything in their path: salmon, halibut, crab, cod, herring, sea birds, even endangered species. Their “bycatch” isn’t a mistake — it’s a built-in part of the system. Millions of pounds of life are tossed back dead every year because the boats are only allowed to keep certain species.
Meanwhile, the same operations are decimating ecosystems that Indigenous and coastal communities have depended on for generations.
They’re gutting the food web from the bottom up — wiping out krill, pollock, and forage fish that orcas, salmon, seals, and seabirds all rely on. When you strip-mine the ocean like that, it doesn’t just take fish — it takes balance.
We’ve already seen orca pods starving. King salmon runs collapsing. Halibut and crab quotas shrinking. Yet these same industrial trawlers keep operating under government-approved “sustainability” labels because they fall under certain “acceptable mortality limits.”
Apparently, that means it’s fine to kill 25 orcas a year, countless salmon, and millions of tons of bycatch — so long as it’s on paper.
The truth?
There is nothing sustainable about destroying the ocean from the inside out.
We can’t keep turning a blind eye while factory ships bulldoze through the North Pacific and Gulf of Alaska. True sustainability means protecting what’s left — not redefining the word until it fits the profit margins of billion-dollar fleets.
Do you agree? Because if this doesn’t light a fire under us to push back, what will?” We DEMAND OUR FISH
Our ORCAS are our Family and Hate what you have done to them as they have the whole ocean.
We DEMAND TO EXPAND OUR SUrface Areas. No more overlord harvesting of any species we could not be good to
