David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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And on those biggest ones, that's about a quarter mile wide.
So if that's dragging on the bottom, then you're cutting about a quarter mile wide swath of seafloor.
Yeah.
So they say the biggest ones will tow about six square miles of seafloor per boat per day.
There's probably 40 of these factory trawlers fishing in Alaska.
They have a long season.
So if you say 40 boats, six miles per day, fishing 200 days per year,
the number of square acres of seafloor potentially covered is just unimaginable.
Astronomically, I think it's 48,000 square miles.
If they could hit six square miles.
If you do it that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause they fish 24 hours a day.
It's this floating factory ship essentially.
That makes my hell of a jig.
They do complain about, they complain about crab pots and these regulatory meetings and say, you guys anchored here, you know, or you dropped a crab pot and ignore that, that they're fishing this way.
Um,
But the, uh, anyway, so, so huge nets and they, uh, there's kind of two divisions that they're cut into.
One is the bottom trawl that will target fish that always live on the bottom.
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