David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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And that's important to this issue because the governor of Alaska chooses a majority of the voting members on this federal NPFMC fisheries council that regulates trawl.
And what we've seen with the past governor is this a trawl vested group would donate a hundred thousand to his campaign.
And then he would put, you know, the vice president of this corporation on this council to regulate trawl.
Um, and it's a majority goes vote system on there.
So if it's dominated by trawl, it doesn't make matter if it makes sense.
It doesn't matter if it's ethical.
If they vote in favor of it, then we're stuck with it essentially.
And so first step for me is that we need to have a governor that commits that they're not going to put active trawl reps on this regulatory council anymore, or at least people who are neutral.
You know, I don't want it full of a super green side.
I don't want it full of an ecological side because I fish too, but they at least need to not be making hundreds of thousands of dollars personally.
And so once you get that in there, then you can start putting forward these motions of
Hey, we need to, if we've acknowledged that there's Bering Sea halibut nurseries and trawl is still allowed in there, it needs to be banned right there.
They can still fish everywhere else, but we're going to kick them out of there.
There needs to be an acknowledgement that pollock are a forage fish.
So forage fish get these special considerations.
Long story, as a just target species.
And there's this weird deal in federal regulation where a fish can't simultaneously be regulated as a forage fish and as a target species.
Got it.
And so Troll successfully makes this case that, you know, there's studies out there that say 85% of the forage base in the Bering Sea is made of pollock.
They say that the number two most commonly eaten thing for Chinook salmon in the Bering Sea in 2024 was pollock.
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