David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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It's huge for halibut, huge for whales.
What was the number one?
Capelin or needlefish, something like that.
Anyway, so there's all this documentation saying that it's this crucial link.
Um, but they, the NPF MC essentially the straw regulated body says it's not going to explore that because there's also this understanding that if they started to take that into consideration and say that, well, maybe the halibut are smaller, maybe the King salmon are smaller because they don't have enough Pollock.
That would create a cutback in limit for how much Pollock the troll fleet can catch.
Um, so they fight that tooth and nail, but there again, it's a super common sense thing.
Um, and if it failed, you know, after five years of study, then, then I get that, but it at least, at least needs to be brought to the table.
So I'd kick them out of the halibut nurseries.
I'd say, we've got to ask this question of whether Pollock should be a forage fish.
Um, another big one that we've run into is that a lot of the bycatch limits were set 20 years ago when the fish were a lot more abundant.
Okay.
So with King salmon in the Bering sea specifically.
15 years ago, they said that, uh, if there are a bunch of King salmon around, you guys can catch 60,000 of them as bycatch.
Or if there's not as many King salmon around, you can catch 45,000 as bycatch.
But in the 15 years since that they've crashed down to essentially nothing.
You know, most people can't fish for them in a river because they aren't there.
And that hasn't been adjusted.
But the 45,000, yeah, is still sitting up there.
Um, and we've seen that with.
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