Fishing
Port of Vancouver Board of Commissioners · Jul 28, 2026 · 30:29–30:47 · Watch on CVTV ↗
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29:28 And it is exciting to think that this is what's coming. And I'll also tag along on the Swinomish, who are under a new sort of a port authority as I understand it, are using all of their efforts. They're up on, as I recall, they're on the north end of Puget Sound. Am I correct? - I think so, yeah. - And they're using their authority to make things work better in the fishing industry in all ways from how they maintain their equipment to training to one thing or another. And they have an enormous portion of the tribe. The tribe's relatively small. If I remember right, it's under 2,000 members.
30:24 But almost every family in the tribe has somebody that's working heavily in the fishing industry. And it seems to be working to benefit them in an economic development model. I didn't hear about anything about diversifying. Their group is about making the fishing work, which sounds nervous, but good for them. I, of course, went to the same seminar that these folks did and absorbed. Folks from different parts of Washington have different kinds of challenges. And the people in the district that we were in were very sold on building great big data centers and had arguments in favor of them that were interesting for how they worked for them.
31:24 And they are having challenges in their agricultural economy from lots of different forces. So they're adapting and trying to make things work. We'll just-- on the final day, we listened to a presentation by an outfit called
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uipment to training to one thing or another. And they have an enormous portion of the tribe. The tribe's relatively small. If I remember right, it's under 2,000 members. But almost every family in the tribe has somebody that's working heavily in the fishing industry. And it seems to be working to benefit them in an economic development model. I didn't hear about anything about diversifying. Their group is about making the fishing work, which sounds nervous, but good for them. I, of course, went