In a related puff piece on the seafood industry, it is noted that commercial fishermen and seafood processors pay $58 million to the state treasury for fish taxes - yet this does not cover the cost of the ADFG commercial fisheries, law enforcement, hatcheries and other related state expenses. 

Here the Lt. Governor is saying if we don't have new taxes to cover our expenses we will be nothing more than a colony. 

When we export billions of pounds of fish, enough to give everyone in the world a meal, but can't even cover the costs to manage the same fisheries, let alone get some revenue to pay for state government, something smells fishy. 

That actually is the definition of colonialism.