David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Um, and so that gets super important because.
When we start to look at like essential fish habitat and how much of the seafloor has never been touched by a net, all these areas close to bottom trawl, we say are pristine 100% habitat essentially.
But the reality is that the mid-water nets have been hard on bottom there for a long time.
And so then it just really throws off all the calculations and you get into like, well, how can this fisheries regulatory agency make this miss, you know, or how can we know that they're on bottom but not regulate it that way?
And that's where we get into revolving door and like trawlers on the regulatory agency and on and on all the way up to Washington, D.C.
So that's been a huge can of worms that Alaska has been going through lately.
Yeah.
So they say, so there's, it gets fuzzy here again.
You're not going to like this.
They, uh,
There's two categories of bycatch.
One is observed bycatch, which is the stuff that comes up onto the boat.
Somebody digs through the catch, extrapolate out the numbers, and say, you guys definitely killed X amount of pounds of X amount of species.
These observers are federal observers.
Correct.
Yeah, they're required by the feds, but they...
usually work through like an independent intermediary agency that staffs them like a staffing group.
Okay.
Okay.
Um, they, uh, so there's two categories.
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