David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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So, uh, you talked earlier about how we've had these big crashes in the U S so grand banks caught in the mid nineties, early nineties had crashed all the way.
We saw West coast ground fish, uh, early two thousands crash all the way.
And so now we're 25, 35 years later than that.
And they're just starting to open those fisheries up again.
The fish have started to come back a little bit, nothing compared to historic rates.
Um, but when we look at the regulations that they put on trawlers down there, it is insane compared to what we see in Alaska.
So that's become this frustrating disconnect for us because it's still federal NOAA fisheries regulating all of them.
But after they've crashed, they say, oh my God, we could never let you guys get away with that kind of bycatch, or we couldn't send you out with an observer, or we're not gonna assume that half the halibut survived.
You bring it all back to the dock and we're gonna check it ourselves.
But in Alaska, they say.
everything's great, just keep doing what you're doing.
And we actually see a fair amount of boats now fishing in Alaska with the same owners, same boats, same crew, probably not the same crew after 30 years, but same ownership structure have come from like, there's a fleet in Alaska that's home ported in Rockport, Maine.
And if you look at the company timeline and their history,
They had fished up until the early nineties.
And then they said, well, then we decided to send our fleet to Alaska.
But what they don't mention is that the cod fishery they were fishing on crashed and they were forced to go somewhere else or lose their boats.
They became like a refugee.
Yeah.
And that, uh, that's been another big deal with this, uh, this concept of a factory trawler is it's essentially a floating, pretty self-sufficient city.
Um, and so even now the factory trawler is fishing in Alaska.
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