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Campaign positions
No position was found. The Division of Elections candidate list gives only his name, party registration, address and telephone number; he filed no statement for the official election pamphlet, the list names no website or email for him, and the Federal Election Commission shows no campaign committee for him this cycle. He did not answer the 2026 voter guides of four Alaska newsrooms or iVoterGuide.
Her campaign says she will fight to ban factory trawling, keep mid-water trawlers off the bottom, fund fishery disaster aid and stock assessments, press NOAA to enforce the bycatch standards in the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and expand electronic monitoring of trawl fleets.
His campaign credits him with the Save Our Seas Acts and the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act, and his pamphlet statement says he has passed legislation to reduce bycatch and to ban the importation of Russian and Chinese trawl-caught fish. He introduced a Bycatch Reduction Act in June 2026.
His questionnaire answers oppose cuts to salmon research and active management, say that cuts at NOAA will almost certainly affect the ability to monitor salmon, and support investment in fishing-industry infrastructure.
Evidence timeline
official action
His election pamphlet statement says “We’ve passed historic legislation” to do four things: clean up our oceans, strengthen salmon runs, reduce bycatch, and ban the importation of Russian and Chinese trawl-caught fish. A campaign ad released on August 11, 2026 says he banned the importation of Russian and Chinese fish. No law this desk read bans importing Russian or Chinese fish. His two bills to restrict Russian seafood imports, the United States-Russian Federation Seafood Reciprocity Acts of 2022 (S. 3614) and 2023 (S. 2011), were referred to the Finance Committee and went no further. His Fighting Foreign Illegal Seafood Harvests Act, S. 688, passed the Senate by unanimous consent on March 22, 2026 and is held at the House desk; it orders a study of Russian and Chinese seafood reprocessing and says it carries no authority to impose sanctions on imports. The closest enacted provision is section 831 of the defense authorization for Fiscal Year 2026, Public Law 119-60, signed December 18, 2025, which stops the Defense Department buying seafood from China, Russia, Iran or North Korea for dining halls, ships and commissaries, with waivers. That limits what the Pentagon buys, not what enters the country, and it is not limited to trawl-caught fish. The Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the bill, reported July 15, 2025, carried a China-only provision as its section 628; the committee's report presents it as the committee's recommendation and names no author. His Senate office says he offered it, and Representative Chris Smith said on April 16, 2026 that the final bill “included a sweeping Sullivan amendment” on Chinese seafood in commissaries. Imports of Russian seafood are banned by executive order: Executive Order 14068 of March 2022, and Executive Order 14114 of December 22, 2023, which let the ban reach Russian-caught fish processed in another country. Neither is legislation. Limit: No law bans those imports. The closest is a 2025 defense-law section, which his office and Rep. Chris Smith credit to him, that stops the Pentagon buying seafood from China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.
official action
Her campaign says she was the lead Democratic co-sponsor of the FISHES Act, which became law in 2025 and helps get fishery disaster relief to fishermen. Congress.gov lists her as the first original cosponsor of H.R. 5103, the FISHES Act, introduced by Representative Byron Donalds of Florida on August 1, 2023; she signed on the day it was introduced. It became Public Law 118-229 on January 4, 2025. Limit: Congress.gov records the order in which members cosponsor, not a party lead; being first on the list is consistent with “lead Democratic co-sponsor” without proving the title. The law's effect on how quickly disaster money reaches fishermen is not something its text or this record measures.
official action
His campaign says he spearheaded the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act, bringing scientists, stakeholders and policymakers together to understand declining salmon runs. He sponsored the Act as S. 3429, introduced December 16, 2021; the Senate passed it and it was held at the House desk. Its text became law another way, as Title III of Division S of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Public Law 117-328, which says the title may be cited as the Alaska Salmon Research Task Force Act. He voted Nay on that act: the Congressional Record prints him among the 29 nays on roll call 421 of December 22, 2022, the Senate's final vote on it, which carried 68 to 29. Limit: The Act is his and its text is law, which is what “spearheaded” claims. It became law inside a year-end spending act he voted against, so his vote on the enacting bill ran the other way from the provision he wrote; a vote on an omnibus spending act is not a vote on any one title of it.
official action
His campaign biography says his Save Our Seas Act and Save Our Seas 2.0 Act were signed into law by President Trump and are the most comprehensive ocean cleanup legislation in history. He sponsored both. The Save Our Seas Act of 2018, S. 3508, became Public Law 115-265 on October 11, 2018, and the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act, S. 1982, became Public Law 116-224 on December 18, 2020; both dates fall in President Trump's first term. The 2.0 Act is the law that established the Marine Debris Foundation, which his campaign also credits to him. A third bill of his, the Save Our Seas 2.0 Amendments Act, S. 216, became Public Law 119-65 on December 26, 2025. Limit: The laws are his by sponsorship and were signed when the claim says. “The most comprehensive ocean cleanup legislation in history” is a comparison no official source makes, and it is not judged here. A bill he introduced in 2017 under the name Save Our Seas Act, S. 756, was later used as the vehicle for the First Step Act, a criminal-justice law; it is not counted as an ocean law.
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