David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
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Um, but you're right.
It was banned in Southeast Alaska, which is a pretty interesting story because they historically, they'd never really found.
There hadn't been big trawl fisheries in Southeast Alaska.
It's a pretty rocky bottom.
They didn't have the populations of fish that they wanted, et cetera, et cetera.
But.
Well, the Gulf of Alaska has it too, but really it's the, the fishable populations of these like low value, non like pollock and flounder just weren't there.
So.
It, uh, but where it came to a head is the, most of these boats that fish trawl in Alaska in, uh, summertime will do their off season down in Seattle, Washington.
And so they had this incident, very particular one moment where one of these boats had left Seattle, Washington.
It came up into Southeast Alaska.
It was legal to fish there.
And I don't know if they wanted to see what was down there.
They wanted to test their net or whatever they're fishing legally.
And so they unrolled their net.
fishing for a day and they essentially caught the entire rockfish quota for all of this area in a single day which means nobody else can fish for them this year um and so that as you can imagine put up this hellstorm of uh conflict and so they eventually got them banned because they obviously that was bad but in that instance it was a little bit different because they didn't really want to fish there anyways you know it was kind of an accident that they'd hit this limit
And so while that does set precedent that it can happen in Alaska and like the regulatory channels are there, we're seeing a way different thing when we start talking about this idea of it being banned or heavily restricted in these main areas.
Sorry, you got to keep talking in your mic.
Yeah, sorry.
The, uh, so the, uh, most of the halibut bycatch currently happens in the Bering sea.
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