David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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So the average halibut as caught as bycatch a few years ago in the Bering sea was 4.75 pounds.
So we call them ping pong paddle halibut.
So,
And the average king salmon was about five pounds.
So we think of that.
Yeah.
But we also in strictly in terms of what goes to food banks, we think of like, wow, a food bank would love to get this a hundred pound halibut or this 35 pound king salmon.
Think of how many people that would feed.
But that's not what shows up.
What we see is something which yields, you know, two pounds of fish and then the, or fish flesh.
And in the case of halibut, those fish are, are being cut down essentially just a couple of years before they would spawn the first time.
And the salmon are, you know, being cut down before they've ever spawned.
And so, so while the like food bank conversation is valid and maybe that's better than them being dumped over, they, a couple of years ago, they had this report that they donated about 300,000 pounds of fish in that one year versus 141 million pounds of total bycatch.
So,
They get a tax write-off for it.
It's a great PR blitz.
You can open up an email to a stranger with it or talk to somebody in DC and say, we get this bycatch, but we donate a lot of, you know, we donated a hundred thousand pounds, but they might've had 7 million pounds of a bycatch of this halibut or halibut and salmon combined.
So that one tends to fall apart, but they, uh, with this PSC limit.
So they made this acknowledgement that, yeah, you guys have kind of indiscriminate nets.
You're going to have some halibut.
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