David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
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Yeah.
But they don't get a pass on this, not with a wild resource, you know, and not in Alaska where so many people depend on, I mean, fish is culture there essentially.
Yeah.
So they, uh, most of the, if you really go back in the history books, there's a really neat book called an unnatural history of the sea.
And it has a section on trawling and it says that the first references to trawling in history were where they were banned.
And so you see in like the, I think it's 1376 in Europe, um,
was the first mention of this trawl net, which would be drug along and indiscriminately catch everything.
Um, and it was banned then.
So 700 years ago, close to it.
Um, then the next reference is from the 1500s where there had become a capital offense.
So they killed two people who had added chains to the bottom of their drag nets.
Um, but as the.
fishing, you know, productivity of the oceans decreased and as more money got into fisheries, um, the lobbying came with it, you know, and so, and with that was this detachment of where fisheries regulators live relative to where the fishing happens.
So when we talk about a trawl fishery, we're talking to senators in Washington, DC, or, you know, this DC political machine that has no idea of what trawl is, what Alaskan issues are besides, um,
that the trawl lobbyists show up in their office every day and say, we've made a lot of billions off of this.
You know, you can't shut it down.
These guys are crazy.
We only caught 33 Kings out of the Yukon this year.
Don't ask us about the halibut.
Don't ask us about whether or not these are bait fish.
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