David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Um, and we were catching about the same amount of Pollock then as we are now.
Okay.
Um, but we weren't seeing other species that would depend on Pollock starve to death simultaneously.
But now we fast forward 50 years and we're seeing the size and age of the Pollock are quite a bit smaller, which has been a precursor to a lot of other fisheries crashes as the fish get smaller and smaller and smaller and go.
We've seen, uh, trawlers complained about that.
Um.
But the technology that we're using to catch essentially the same amount of fish is through the roof.
You imagine the last 20 years of where the boats have gone.
And I don't have data on how many tows they do or how many days they have to fish, but that had come up.
We talked about like that Bering Sea crab crash.
They had a tough time catching crab that year.
And so they were fishing assumably new places and longer and more days, you know.
So all those kind of factor in, but
this year in particular, they'd, uh, done this survey of the Pollock and they said in the Bering Sea that the total Pollock population had dropped by about 30%.
Um, but they didn't reduce the trawl harvest Pollock by 30%.
They said, you guys catch the same amount, but if that means everything else, you know, all these predator fish rely on everything that's left.
The humans didn't lose 30% of their Pollock.
Every, all the predator fish lost 30%.
You know, that has to come out of somewhere.
Um, and they, uh,
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