David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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We're seeing it across a dozen different species, marine mammals, whales, fur seals, king salmon, chum salmon.
And there's also this conversation of
Well, of course you guys aren't catching many fish out of the Yukon River.
The entire fishery crashed.
I mean, a good year.
Yeah, I'm not turning down many blonde girls because there's not many blonde girls that want to go out with me in the first place.
You know, like this cause and effect here.
But a good year on the Yukon River used to be like 500,000 fish.
It used to be 10 times bigger.
So functionally, this fishery has already...
crashed, you know, and yeah, your bycatch of it has gone down proportionally, but not necessarily because you're fishing cleaner, not because you're effective at avoiding them, but just because the fish aren't there.
And so what we actually saw with trawl a couple of times in the last five years is, Oh, one year in the Bering sea, I think they had 8,000 Kings as bycatch one year, they had 10,000.
This has been a year, a year long, their whole thing.
And so they're telling us, God, we are good at avoiding King salmon now as everything else has crashed.
But this year, in about two months, I think they've already got 11,000 kings.
So maybe there's more kings around, but they're not necessarily fishing cleaner.
They're just kind of profiting or getting luck, fortunate off of these low returns.
And if you start to look at like a 30-year history, I don't have the number in front of me, but those bycatch reports statewide show about 1.1 million kings lost as trawl bycatch, which there's a lot of other fisheries that fish for king salmon too, but
When you combine that raw bycatch, plus they're losing their food source, plus they were towing these midwater nets on bottom and wrecking the seafloor habitat, then you get kind of this perfect trifecta.
And there's definitely a conversation about ocean acidification, other fleets, climate warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it.
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