David Bays

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

So that gets them up to around maybe 15 pounds.

Correct.

And I think it might be the males that start at age seven and the females start at age 10.

But anyways, yeah, yeah.

It's pretty small.

Absolutely correct.

So the Gulf of Alaska has trawl fisheries too, but they're typically not as big as,

But one of the big issues we run into in the Gulf of Alaska is that they, the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea have different regulatory regulations, different rules to fish by.

And one of the big hot button issues in the Gulf of Alaska is that there they have these dedicated bottom trawl fleet.

So some of the dirtiest, they hard on the bottom all the time, ripping up habitat.

But they only have an observer rate of about 20 to 30%.

percent.

And so you'll hear trawl in the Bering sea.

We'll say we have a 200% observer rate.

We have a hundred percent observer rate.

We're this model of sustainability.

Um, but they conveniently ignore that right next door is this other fleet where they only send an observer along, um, for about one out of three trips.

Okay.

And so there's been this kind of widespread insinuation from former crew and current crew there that it becomes cheaper for a boat operator there

to essentially throw a trip when the observers along, then risk what the observer, then risk that the observer sees what they actually catch and then extrapolates that out to the entire season.

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