Jason Schratweiser

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 889: The Boss of All Fishing Records · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

I'll get into that.

We had to do a carve out for that.

There were, I think, at least three sushi joints within Marlin.

10 to 15 minutes from where I live, where I could find Marlin sushi.

So it was there.

Yeah.

You just had to look for it.

Yeah.

And we started off with this public awareness campaign, you know, telling people, Hey, look, you know, there's not that many of these things out there.

They've got an important use in the ecosystem and they're a big economic driver for recreational anglers that spend a lot of money on boats and tackle to largely catch and release these fish, you know, killing them in large numbers to bring them in for, you know,

you know, a low, low value product doesn't mean a lot of sense, you know, but finally we knew that we'd have to take kind of, um, legislative steps.

So the first round we went in and we thought we were all smart.

We just wanted an all out prohibition and sale and importation in all 50 States.

Well, back then Inouye was in power and Senator Inouye.

Um, and that was dead on arrival, you know, um,

I'm not familiar with the name.

Tell me who that is.

I think he was in charge of appropriations, but he was a very powerful congressperson then.

So if he didn't like a particular bill, he had the ability to cut it, especially in his home in Hawaii.

So I was wondering why it had relevance to him, but he was in Hawaii.

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