David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
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Uh, and that comes from this, they call it the amendment 80 bottom trawl fleet.
It had been created, uh, to specifically target these bottom fish out there.
And they get pretty close to 4 million pounds of reported bycatch each year.
But when they report that, that's- Halibut bycatch.
Halibut bycatch mortality.
And so this is what you'd gotten into in that news clip of they don't necessarily assume that all fish caught in trawl that comes up and is then released is going to die.
And so they had kind of, trawl had co-authored a study with federal regulators a few years ago.
That essentially it used to be assumed that every time they had a halibut come up in this net might be packed in with a hundred thousand pounds of other fish.
It's been towed for four or five hours.
Um, they used to just get dumped straight into the fish hole and they would assume that all those halibut died.
But they came up with another program called the deck sorting program where instead of dumping the net straight into the fish hole, they would instead dump it out on the deck of the boat.
And then crew members have about half an hour to go through and throw back as many halibut as they can.
And if they participate in this program, they assume only about 50% of the halibut die.
But from a sport fishing perspective, I mean, we've seen.
That's a real tough one.
We, you know, we have rivers in Alaska where if we are doing catch and release fishing for a salmon and we lift it all the way out of the water to take a picture, that's a crime.
You know, that's illegal for us because we could have killed that fish essentially.
So when you start looking at a halibut that's been packed in 100,000 pounds with this net, stepped on, sorted through for half an hour.
I mean, just pulling the net out of the water takes half an hour, and then you got another half an hour.
It seems tough to me.
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