David Bays

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

So you can, uh, pull up various charts where they definitely moving.

Yeah.

So we'll see him go from like the Gulf of Alaska into the Bering sea and feed.

You see the ones from like Oregon, Washington and Canada will come up into the Gulf of Alaska and feed.

And they, they all have this like four year loop.

Um, and then, uh, there's a lot of fish from the Bering sea area that go and do a loop in the Bering sea.

But one of the things we've seen with King salmon coast-wise or the entire, you know, Oregon, all the way up to Nome.

is that they're doing very poorly and they before we started to see them crash all the way or fisheries be shut down we've seen this huge shrinking size at age so the fish have over you know we used to see these hundred pound king salmon out of the columbia river 100 pound king salmon out of the kenai river 80 pound kings out of the yukon river and before they quit coming back at all we're seeing them get smaller smaller smaller smaller and we've seen the same thing with halibut so halibut size at age how big they are

depending on how old they are, uh, has decreased by over half over the last 30 years.

Yeah.

Um, and so that really points people towards a food source issue.

And that again is where you get into Pollock as this forage fish of the North Pacific that, you know, maybe 3 billion pounds a year isn't sustainable.

And so then we can come into this conversation of.

I was chasing this the whole time.

To the food issue, right?

Yeah.

And also the habitat issue.

So when I look at it, I see there's three points.

One is that the bycatch, the raw pounds, which they can defend and say, oh, it might've been jellyfish or as a percentage, this isn't that much of a particular river.

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