David Bays

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959 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 20 Apr

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then they have this, this opportunity.

And I think trawl sees that as their one last ditch move.

But what they're forgetting is that the Republican side is big into conservation.

I mean, we've, uh, pebble mine had come through like Trump jr.

You see these stories out of Africa where hunters had preserved the land.

That was this big success story, um, on and on.

And so I fish to, uh, there's this extent of like, uh,

We want to protect the fish so that we can kill the fish, which has some irony, obviously.

Yeah.

But we want it to be sustainable and we want our kids to kill the fish too.

And what we really want is the habitat and the bait fish left intact so that that can happen indefinitely.

And no other fishery impacts those factors near like trawl does.

It's kind of like you could, uh, say you were managing deer in a forest.

You could hunt these white tails down until there was one buck and one doe left in this entire forest, stop hunting.

And in 10 years, you'd probably have a decent deer population.

But if you cut down the forest and paved over it in the process, you lose those deer forever.

And so that's the concern with trawl and especially the bottom, like the sea floor impact.

And that's not tough to understand for most people, you know?

So I, uh, I want to see the common sense stuff checked off first.

And so this is, uh, 2026 is a election for our new governor in Alaska, uh,

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