David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Um, but they, uh, an interesting part of this is that you'll see trawl kind of play with these big numbers where it suits them, but they might say that only 1% or less than 1% comes into the Yukon river, which is one out of.
500 rivers in Western Alaska, all of which are essentially shut down to king salmon fishing preemptively to save the resource.
But then they'll say that about 50% of the kings they catch are from Western Alaska rivers.
So they pull it out and say that, well, this one, we didn't get very many, but close to half of them total came out of this general area, essentially.
I got a couple things to bail you out on this.
For sure.
So that brings us back to kind of these three points with trawl.
So they'll talk about bycatch.
They'll talk about genetics and the Yukon River.
But if you're going to make an analogy about that, like...
bighorn sheep in the Missouri breaks.
So you could say that somebody wanted to strip mine the breaks or whatever.
They wanted to mow down all the sagebrush out there, um, for whatever reason to make a parking lot.
They could start doing that.
They stretch a chain between two bulldozers.
They start to rip up the Missouri river breaks and they might only have that bulldozer or that chain might only run into two bighorn sheep in a year and kill them.
But when they destroy all the habitat and they destroy all the food,
then the entire population suffers.
And so that's where we keep coming back to this pollock as a bait fish.
And we're not seeing just king salmon shrink or not come back.
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