David Bays

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 864: Is Trawling Destroying Alaska's Fisheries? · 20 Apr 2026 podcast

Well, yeah, so that.

brings up a really big philosophical debate of um if there's only one king salmon left who has the ethical right to catch it should it be the subsistence user that lives in the middle of nowhere on the yukon river or should it be a trawler to waste it when it's five pounds and that's a real easy question for people to answer and unfortunately we're we're drifting off in that direction you know

Um, so those would be some really big ones.

The other one is, uh, this issue of we, at the start of this, we talked about there's two types of bycatchers observed bycatch and there's unobserved bycatch.

Yeah.

And, uh, we said that trawl says they only impact about one and a half percent of the Bering sea, but the Bering sea is incredibly huge.

So the 1.4% of the Eastern Bering sea is I think 390 billion square feet.

And if you start to look at how much life is in a square foot of sea floor,

It's like if you're on a trout stream and you walk, lift up a river, everything darts out of there.

But you can apply different levels of what might live there.

Say it's five grams per square foot.

You come up with essentially billions of pounds of unobserved bycatch.

So this is the stuff kicked up by the mud, drug over by the nets.

But since it doesn't make it to the deck of the boat, we just pretend it doesn't exist.

But other nations have taken that on and we could be taking it on too if there was the will within this regulatory body to say,

hey, maybe this is a problem.

But there again, Troll knows that it's a real big problem if we start to quantify it or go down that rabbit hole.

And so they essentially roadblock it at a DC or a regulatory level.

So that's my push, is that I think there's all these common sense concepts that just need to be explored.

We have to have a regulatory system which allows us to bring these concerns to the table and take a look at them.

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