Hey folks, Randy Newberg here with another episode of Lube Poles Hunt Talk radio.

Hope you are all healthy, doing well, starting to get outside a little bit,

trying to enjoy life and whatever normal is going to be. Get back to that. So,

appreciate you listening. Today we've got an interesting guest. I've always been interested in

sustainable wild food systems. And I think that might go back to my teenage years

when I spent a summer commercial fishing, longlining halibut on my grandfather's boat.

It was a 73-foot boat, the Francis K. And we would go and fish halibut in Blackcott. And

I often wondered because you'd come into port and go to the canneries or you'd go to a tender,

a tender, and come and offload you. And you'd see how many tons and tons of fish were being

brought in and harvested. And it was just, I don't know, it always kind of stuck with me.

And then as I got older, I started to understand the history of conservation of

terrestrial species here in the United States and how that went from the darkest of days to now

what some would say are the bright days of wildlife in America.

Fisheries of owies interested me. Those of you who follow our content know that

as often as I can, I go to Southeast Alaska, usually base things out of Petersburg or Thorn Bay

on Prince of Wales. And those are fishing towns, especially Petersburg.

So I end up running into this guy. He lives in Billings now. John Launderus,

he has a company that was called Billings Sea Food Guys. I guess it still is.

But he started a new program with that called the Wild Alaska Sea Food Box.

And it's kind of dear to my heart because what it does, it tries to connect

small fishermen, small independent boats up in Southeast Alaska directly to the consumer.

And John and I got to talking about, well, you know, how do you conserve a resource like wild fish

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