David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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It would be like, so one example is that, uh, trawl claims that it only drags about 1.4% of the entire Bering sea.
They say our impact is really small, but it's,
anybody that has fish knows that not all fishing ground is equal.
There's seamounts, there's ledges, there's these super productive areas.
I fish less than 1% of the area.
And so that would be like, say that this logging or mining company came and made this claim to the Department of Commerce that, hey, we want to log 1.4% of North America.
Like, that's it.
All this other forest will be here.
but if you, uh, look at how much forest is contained within like Washington or sorry, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, that's about one and a half percent.
So you effectively wipe out the entire Rocky mountain elk population.
And so that's where these percentages.
Yeah.
Um, anyways, so it, uh, yeah, you can, you can play with percentages where it is advantageous to you, but there again, it's this wild population that,
It does have all these external factors on it, and we know that they're causing problems and going to cause problems.
So common sense says that we should slow down the manageable take of that, the human harvest, because we acknowledge that there's these bumps in the road.
It's just like if you're driving down the highway, if you don't slow down when it gets bumpy, you wreck your car.
We're not seeing that in fisheries management of these trawl fleets.
the road is doing this through everything else, all these external factors and Charles saying, we got to go full speed ahead.
We'll never crash.
Um, but common sense doesn't agree with that.
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