David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Well, yeah, that's, yeah, I, uh, it's definitely a concern.
The, uh, and I, um, so I get tangled up in, we talked about, there's a stop glass controller, Facebook group.
It's got about 55,000 people in it.
The state of Alaska only has 750,000 people.
Not everybody in that group's from Alaska, but it's a huge voting block contingent.
And my real drive is that I want to see these common sense rules be enforced.
And then if that means it puts trawl out of business somewhere down the road, say that they, right now we're talking about these halibut nurseries.
Nobody can fish for halibut there because we're going to protect the halibut on their nurseries, but trawl control there.
So they can have bycatch of halibut because they're not targeting them.
But it's an area shut down for everybody else.
And we talked about these midwater trawls can fish in areas close to bottom trawl because we're trying to protect the habitat there.
But they say if they got kicked out of there with their midwater nets that they'd go out of business.
And they make this argument successfully to the Department of Commerce.
But no other sportsman or no other group gets to exist under these rules.
So that's what really gets me is I want to see these enforced common sense.
If trawl can still continue to fish under that.
and thrive, then that opens up a new conversation of, do we want them in the state?
Is this a good for society, et cetera.
But if it shuts them down through enforcing common sense regulations, then so be it.
And I take a lot of heat for that because I think they know that they would effectively be shut down if those common sense regs went into effect.
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