David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
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But the biggest trawler fishing in Alaska now is 376 feet long.
So if you put that in a Super Bowl stadium, it would go from goalpost to goalpost, and it's about six stories high.
So when you think of volume of fish that a boat like that catches, they catch about a half a million pounds of fish per day.
They can hold about five million pounds of fish in their boat.
So as we talk about trawlers specifically, we're talking huge numbers, billions of pounds of catch, millions of pounds of bycatch.
But the way they fish is you'll often hear them referred to as draggers as the other name.
Yeah.
I think the industry term, they don't like it because it is sensed as derogatory or there's been so many shutdowns of drag fisheries across the United States.
but we actually see one good example of this.
There's a industry group in Alaska that used to be, it was like the Alaska Whitefish Draggers Association or something like that.
But they changed their name to something like a cooperative, you know, where they dropped the dragger name essentially 10 or 15 years ago, but they didn't change their gear.
They didn't change their boat.
Yeah.
So they pull, uh,
we're not saying drag, they pull, they drag a big, a huge net.
So the biggest ones they say you can fit, uh, four 747 jets plus the Eiffel tower on its side into this net.
So there again, when you and I think of fishing and fishing boats and what extraction of a natural resources, this is almost incomprehensible.
They'll pull up like a quarter million pounds of fish in one sweep essentially with this net.
Um, but it has, it has a,
a chain or a cable along the bottom to weight it.
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