David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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There's the observed numbers.
Those come up to the deck.
They get counted.
Those are pretty good numbers.
Uh, but then there's also the unobserved bycatch.
So we talked about these nets might drag six square miles of seafloor in a day, but nobody's calculating, you know, how much stuff got knocked down or killed or dredged up bottom sediment that doesn't make it up on the boat to be quantified.
Other countries have taken stabs at that.
There have been some research to find out how much biomass is in one square feet of mud in the Bering Sea, et cetera.
But the USA, in that sense, just says, we don't think it exists.
Or they ignore it.
They want to stick to what's observed.
Yeah.
Got it.
But that benefits trawl quite a bit to do it that way.
Understood.
So the observed bycatch, they told us that over the last 10 years, all trawl groups in Alaska combined have 141 million pounds of bycatch per
year so that's about 16 000 pounds per hour that's about 1 million pounds every two and a half days it's three and a half billion pounds since i graduated high school in 2021. okay um so you're talking a massive tell me the annual number again uh 141 million pounds per year of of sea life yeah correct all species combined yeah
And so they, so you'll, uh, and it's a pretty, it's an indiscriminate gear type.
That's why trawl works is that it scoops up a bunch of stuff.
You bring it up to the deck.
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