Linda Behnken is Fishing for the Future

This week's guest is Linda Behnken, Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association — a woman who has hauled lines in some of the coldest, most unforgiving waters on earth for more than four decades. Behnken is not the kind of person who watches a fight from the dock. As one of the most outspoken advocates for Alaska's fishing communities and the marine ecosystems they depend on, she has spent years going toe-to-toe with the industrial trawl fleets dragging nets across the seafloor and pressing lawmakers to reckon honestly with a changing climate. This episode takes on safety at sea, the creeping threat of large-scale gold mining and widespread logging, and the broader battle to keep Alaska's coastal way of life from slipping beneath the surface.