David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Yeah.
And we've seen them, you know, I've seen like ready to spawn fish in a couple of hundred feet of water too.
Sure.
But that's the.
Yeah, I think it's like ducks migrating, like some of them migrate every time and then you have local ducks.
But the, uh, anyways, yeah.
So essentially the biological assumption is that the vast majority of halibut begin their life as larva settling in the Bering sea.
Okay.
Then they go clockwise, which brings them to the Gulf of Alaska, brings them to Southeast Alaska, brings them to Canada, Washington, Oregon.
all the way down.
And so when we talk about how there's 4 million pounds of juvenile halibut being wasted a straw bycatch in the Bering sea each year, that means we're hitting Homer in the Gulf of Alaska, Southeast Prince of Wales, Canada gets really crabby about this.
Um, Washington and Oregon have like a halibut season of just a couple of days now because the.
Yeah.
Population's doing so poorly.
Yeah.
And so each year when they set these harvest limits,
All these, these other countries and these other areas are saying, oh my God, you got to, we can't waste this many halibut in the Bering Sea each year because it affects all of us.
Um, but we've seen the trawl industry kind of become this powerhouse in our regulatory agencies and they say, well, we make a lot of money from it.
You can't, can't shut that down, you know?
Yeah.
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