David Bays

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 864: Is Trawling Destroying Alaska's Fisheries? · 20 Apr 2026 podcast

And they say that a fish that size is laying about 4 million eggs per year.

So yeah, they got a lot of eggs in them.

but the reality is from a biological side, the most of the halibut caught over about 20 pounds are females.

And those have over 20.

Yeah.

And those have the potential to spawn, you know, maybe 25 more times in their life.

Um, say they're going to live to be 40 years old or whatever it is versus the big fish.

They have a lot of eggs per spawn, but maybe they've only got five years left to live essentially.

And so the halibut biologists take, we've,

they've been pinned down on this because this is a big, you know, social issue in Alaska.

You guys are terrible because you killed this big fish.

But when we asked the IPHC about it, this Pacific halibut commission, they say, we don't think there's any impact to actual, uh, halibut populations because they're just not that many big fish and they're not going to spawn that many more times.

But that also takes genetics out of it.

So I, I mean, and that's why I've done this program of like, we'll give you a free trip because these are the fish that have

you know, beat the odds and they've made it and survived.

You could.

I mean, yeah, it's like the conversation of like selective deer and elk harvest type things, selecting for genetics.

But by the same token, we've killed a lot of them and I leave it up to the fisherman's choice, you know.

Seven years old.

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