David Bays
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Another 4.3 million got released and were assumed to have lived or around there.
So it in that region is pretty small.
I don't have that number memorized, but I do have the data on the, uh, as of 2015, the average bycatch halibut they got in that region was 4.76 pounds per fish.
Okay.
And so that makes about 850,000 fish that they assume died last year through this bycatch.
Okay.
And that is more individual halibut than the entire state of Alaska, all other halibut fisheries combined.
And the halibut spawn at kind of like, the males and females start at different ages, but like seven to 10 pounds per fish.
And so when we talked to biologists about this, they'll say, oh, we kind of have this deal where if you, you can never assume that one
Fish taken out of a population would have affected the total population because there's a good chance a fish dies.
Sure.
But I find that hard to believe with five pound halibut, you know, when a halibut egg is laid, yeah, 99% of them die.
Or when the halibut's in the larval stage, another 99% of them die or whatever.
But once you get up to this five pound fish, that's about two feet long.
It's buried in the mud, and it's just almost made it to where it can spawn the first time.
Yeah, so that's a tough one to look at.
What size, again, does the halibut start to spawn?
Well, so I look at it both ways.
So this charter business I'd owned, we used to have this, I called it the Release the Beast program.
If somebody would let a halibut over 250 pounds go, I'd give them a free fishing trip the next year to encourage people to do this.
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