Kyle Johansen

Six of the 10 members of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association partake in fish-farming, the antithesis of the natural, wild, self-proclaimed "last great wild salmon fishery on Earth" located in Bristol Bay, where the association opposes the Pebble gold and copper mine.

Recently, the Pacific Seafood Processors Association weighed in on the Pebble project. The hypocrisy of this action motivates me to put pen to paper.

Our initiative process is used by special interests to maneuver around the lawmaking body to enact laws without regard for the public as a whole. It is imperative that the process be protected from abuse. HB 36 offers those safeguards.