Dan Barr is eighty-one and a half years old. He fished Bristol Bay for just about half his life.
“It’s been just such a great part of my life,” he said. “Every year I came home, it was like to live out something new that got loose in me.”
In 1992, he formed a coalition that helped pass the High Seas Driftnet Act, which aimed to restrict large-scale driftnet fishing in international waters. The act restricts net size at sea and makes it illegal to import fish harvested with large drift nets. It has brought more visibility to both the bycatch and fish interception issues that affected the health — both ecological and economical — of the fishery.
Barr also worked within Bristol Bay. He started an open radio channel for the Ugashik district where fishers could talk to each other about important issues during slow hours.
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