Thank you Linda Kozak! I’d like to say I planned it and you snapped up my red herring, but it was just my lucky mistake, made as I was rushing off to the fishing grounds.

You’ve finally outed yourself, and if what you say is true, you’ve outed Denby Loyd and Gov. Sarah Palin as well. According to your interpretation, there will be no settlement at all for the Bering Sea crews and hired skippers.

As a result of that, there will also be no division of the rockfish that could have been fished right out Kodiak’s front door. The chain reaction will end when every pound of it bypasses Kodiak plants, a return to the “joint venture” days a few decades ago when Dyson and Burch and three or four of their friends caught the entire Gulf of Alaska quota of rockfish, conveying them straight aboard foreign motherships via “cod end transfer.”

As sort of Kodiak’s fish czar, you should have shared your plan with us long ago. Gov. Palin still has the chance to do the right thing and dump you, not just for fishermen but for the profit that would have come to Alaska’s treasury over the years as well.

Say it isn’t true, Sarah. It’s a terrible piece of business for our state. Say it isn’t true, Denby. And Duncan, you aren’t going along with this are you? You’re really going to cut Alaskan fishermen off at the knees and cede the Gulf of Alaska to the cartels?

I’m a Kodiak fisherman for 40 years and that’s sacred ground out there in my book.