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Speaker 1: From Mediators World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is

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Speaker 1: Kel's we Can Review with Ryan cal Kell. Now Here's

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Speaker 1: cal Jake Hyles is both the unofficial New State of

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Speaker 1: Virginia blue fin tuna record holder after catching a seven

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Speaker 1: eight pound blue fin tuna, as well as the unofficial

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Speaker 1: robin Hood of the Docks or tuna hood maybe sushi

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Speaker 1: give her guy. Anyway, what I'm saying is he gave

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Speaker 1: the meat away Llagali wood a day. The previous blue

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Speaker 1: fin record six hundred and six pounds, was actually held

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Speaker 1: by Hyles's now deceased friend, Chase Robinson. Obviously, this crew

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Speaker 1: knows where the big fish like to be in order

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Speaker 1: to take home the record. This mass of hall of

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Speaker 1: tuna meat could not be sold, so Hiles and his

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Speaker 1: fishing partner Jeff Landis started carving and giving the meat away.

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Speaker 1: Blue Fin tuna can cost anywhere from twenty to a pound,

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Speaker 1: depending on the time of year, and yes, there's some obsessive,

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Speaker 1: wealthy Japanese restaurant tours that like to make a statement

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Speaker 1: by spending around five thousand dollars per pound in order

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Speaker 1: to take home the first blue fin tuna of the season.

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Speaker 1: The two thousand nineteen first fish was purchased for a

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Speaker 1: mind blowing three million dollars. Just like on any animal,

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Speaker 1: there are different cuts of meat that bring different prices,

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Speaker 1: but anyway you slice it, see what I did there,

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Speaker 1: Jake Hiles distributed some serious wealth at the dock in

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Speaker 1: Rudy Inlet. The i u c N lists the Atlantic

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Speaker 1: blue fin as endangered and the Pacific blue fin as threatened. However,

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Speaker 1: the ocean is a big place, consisting of many different fisheries.

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Speaker 1: According to Noah, the population that Jake Hiles pulled his

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Speaker 1: Virginia state record from is the Western Atlantic blue fin,

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Speaker 1: which is now considered a stable fishery. The Western Atlantic

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Speaker 1: blue fins spawn in the Gulf of Mexico and range

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Speaker 1: up to Newfoundland. They grow more slowly than other tuna

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Speaker 1: and don't reproduce until they hit about eight years old,

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Speaker 1: which is a long time to wait considering they only

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Speaker 1: lived to twenty. Now that we have that covered, here's

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Speaker 1: what I don't get. State waters only extend about three

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Speaker 1: miles off the coast. The quote potential Virginia state record

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Speaker 1: was caught about eighty miles from the vessel's home port,

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Speaker 1: putting it squarely in Federal waters. How is this Virginia

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Speaker 1: state record? The state of Virginia did not grow this tuna.

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Speaker 1: It likely didn't produce the feed for the tuna or

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Speaker 1: provide the habitat. Can I, being from Montana, go fish

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Speaker 1: anywhere in Federal waters and bring home a Montana state record?

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Speaker 1: If so? The races on my friends this week, we've

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Speaker 1: got a goat update, a prowling pinna, ped frozen birds,

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Speaker 1: and so much more. But first, I'm gonna tell you

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Speaker 1: about my week. First, first, I gotta tell you I'm

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Speaker 1: drinking a pike a from Sawtooth Brewery locating Haley, Idaho.

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Speaker 1: I used to go down and be friendly with some

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Speaker 1: of these folks, and some nice character dropped off a

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Speaker 1: six pack of peanut butter milk stout. It's got a

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Speaker 1: flavor that when you taste it, you go huh. The

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Speaker 1: peanut butter milk stout features the pika pikoh. When I

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Speaker 1: very first saw one was up on Mount em Marine,

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Speaker 1: which is a hard to get to spot. There's actually

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Speaker 1: on the headwaters of Rock Creek here in Montana and

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Speaker 1: kind of over in that Scalcahoe area, and uh, he

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Speaker 1: used to burn a lot of shoe leather over there

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Speaker 1: looking for elk. It is a close cousin to the rabbit,

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Speaker 1: but with short, rounded ears. And when I first saw one,

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Speaker 1: rabbit had made it with a chipmunk. That's not the case.

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Speaker 1: They're very cool little critters, and if you ever get

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Speaker 1: the suggest you do so. Alright, lots to cover here,

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Speaker 1: as you may have seen from the old Cal four

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Speaker 1: oh six Instagram feed, I took off to do a

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Speaker 1: bit of ice fishing, my first trip of the season. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: the forecast said negative six below zero, which isn't that

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Speaker 1: bad when you're prepared for it, but the actual temp

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Speaker 1: which means it was at least sixteen below The nearest town.

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Speaker 1: I pre made also. Buco Meat Eaters director of fishing,

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Speaker 1: made some kind of hardy, awesome soup with sausage and

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Speaker 1: for lunch meat. You can say we were in fat city.

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Speaker 1: We got all this gear up to a very secluded,

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Speaker 1: at twenty below actually keeps you pretty darn warm. Not

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Speaker 1: my proudest moment, but I'll tell you the team effort

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Speaker 1: was something that would make anyone proud. The meat Eater

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Speaker 1: crew rolled into action, shoveling slush, running winch cables, and

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Speaker 1: using those communication skills that are so darned critical in

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Speaker 1: and generally bring everyone down is very real, and this

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Speaker 1: It was awesome, proud to work with them. One fun

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Speaker 1: bit of product testing, I'll mention I had brought along,

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Speaker 1: no surprise, my steel battery power chainsaw, thinking that there

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Speaker 1: would be some blowdown trees over the trail. There were not,

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Speaker 1: so the battery saw just sat there at double digit

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Speaker 1: much to my surprise, and knocked down two dead standing

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Speaker 1: as the water froze so fast that it didn't really

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Speaker 1: in a beautiful spot. We even caught some fish. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you one real cold weather tip, though, intimps of

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Speaker 1: that low water is an issue. We had several methods

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Speaker 1: to have enough time to distribute water for everyone's bottles. Now,

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Speaker 1: insulated bottles are great in this situation. However, once they freeze,

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Speaker 1: it takes some serious time and ultimately more fuel boiling

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Speaker 1: cold weather sleeping one on one right there. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: gonna start with our law enforcement desk. This week, UH

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Speaker 1: six to seven hundred pound female stellar sea lion was

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Speaker 1: Washington County, Washington. The Cowlitz River is a tributary of

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Speaker 1: When the first call came in in regards to the

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Speaker 1: were apparently slow to believe the caller. According to The Oregonian,

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Speaker 1: the call went something like this, I'm sorry, a feeline. No,

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Speaker 1: a sea lion. That's understandable. Through Saturday night, Cowlitz County

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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Department monitored the scene. By Sunday, the lion found

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Speaker 1: to eat about six percent of their body weight per day,

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Speaker 1: some parts of their range and decreased in others. This

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Speaker 1: their diet, salmon and steel head, is causing serious concerns

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Speaker 1: The male stellar sea lion can wait up to twelve

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Speaker 1: hundred pounds and grow to eleven feet in length. That's

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Speaker 1: seventy two pounds of fish per day. The states of

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Speaker 1: Oregon and Washington have actually increased the amount of depredation

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Speaker 1: this reason. One more quote from this story was interesting

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Speaker 1: a grizzly bear. This one was six or seven hundred pounds,

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Speaker 1: Does it really need to be compared to an alligator

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Speaker 1: the case of the prowling pinaped. Pinnaped means fin or

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Speaker 1: flipper footed. Walrus's seal sea lions are pinnapeds. The stellar

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Speaker 1: a couple more fun facts while we're at it. A

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Speaker 1: Moving onto the mountain goat desk, As you may recall,

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Speaker 1: eradicate invasive mountain goats from sensitive bighorn sheep habitat. Mountain goats,

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Speaker 1: to this landscape, whereas bighorn sheep, being the sissies that

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Speaker 1: great and needs some help. Lots of folks got up

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Speaker 1: in arms over this decision, including hunters and the state

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Speaker 1: Fish and Game Agency of Wyoming. Despite this, the Park

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Speaker 1: killing around thirty six of the proposed one goats from helicopters.

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Speaker 1: The Governor of Wyoming, Mark Gordon, sent a very stern

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Speaker 1: are a bad neighbor with no regard for the wildlife

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Speaker 1: professionals of Wyoming. Soon after this letter was sent, Secretary

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Speaker 1: of the Interior David Bernhardt interjected and the Park Service

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Speaker 1: and shooting again thirty six goats out of the targeted one.

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Speaker 1: To make this even more unpalatable, the goat meat was

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Speaker 1: This is the ugly side of wildlife management on full

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Speaker 1: public display. The intention here is to eradicate a non

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