David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Sometimes the government says you can't keep that fish.
Sometimes the fish isn't valuable.
Sometimes it's jellyfish that doesn't have a commercial market.
Um, but kind of like if you looked at, you know, dragging a net through a wheat field or whatever, you know, there's honeybees and stuff that you would throw out.
But when you start taking huge millions of pounds of stuff at a,
Any ecosystem, you can run into trouble.
And I don't know if jellyfish is that, but they're there, you know, and they've made it however many thousands of years there.
But the really big, you know, the highlighted species or the more controversial species are what they call prohibited species catch, PSC.
And so those are typically...
Either the more slow growing or commercially valuable or often the fish, which are already allocated to other industries.
So when we fish for halibut in Alaska, if money is involved, so if you're a long liner that catches them to sell at the store, a charter fisherman taking people out, we have these real super tight limits of, you know, 1.999 million pounds or whatever it is.
They float up and down each year.
And there's this acknowledgement that if trawl wastes them as bycatch, then we can't, it's going to affect these other industries.
So they say trawl, you can't have them at all.
Um, and there was a conversation about, well, maybe trawl should be able to sell them, but then the concern is, so last year, halibut fishermen were getting about $8 per pound at the dock for halibut, but pollock is worth about 10 cents.
So there's this concern that if you allow them to catch these super valuable fish and sell them, cause we caught them anyways.
then that you essentially incentivize that.
Sure.
You'll see them shifting from, well, we accidentally caught this, but it was worth more.
Like, why not do it?
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