David Bays

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959 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Apr

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Um, yeah, one of the other admins on there is the executive director of the Alaska Outdoor Council.

Okay.

I do charter boats.

Jody does charter boats.

But, uh, it came to a head because before they set charter halibut limits each year, they take trawl bycatch of halibut off the top.

So when you're talking about that pie each year gets bigger and smaller.

With fish populations, every fish that trawl takes out of it shrinks that pie down.

And so we got to where us on charter boats taking out people with rod and reel fishing

They said, well, we're going to cut you guys back by about 30% to protect the resource.

But we take 2 million pounds of halibut a year spread out across all these anglers.

And at that time, trawl was dumping, you know, 5, 6 million pounds of juvenile halibut per year.

So close to a million individual fish.

And so then it just creates this hypocrisy of what do you mean they can waste more than we catch, you know, like this.

And we're being told that we're cut back for conservation.

Yeah.

So it, uh, well, to start it off, you have to think about scale boats.

So when we think about fishing boats, you know, we think of a lot of people have seen like the time band on deadliest catch.

That's the biggest fishing boat they can imagine.

It's huge for most of us.

That's about 113 feet long.

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