David Bays

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

And if there's somebody from PETA, we know what their stance is going to be.

And you guys could debate and they'd draw out a thousand facts and you'd draw out a thousand facts and the people listening wouldn't get anything out of it.

Yeah.

And so, and it's also that, you know, I do this, it's not fun anymore.

But it was a, an important issue to me to take on personally.

Um, and so I do it on my own time on my own dollar, you know, but, um, if you get up against like these multi-billion dollar corporations, they have entire teams of lawyer.

They hire a lot of the fisheries regulatory people.

They hire a lot of the Alaska department of fish and game gets hired into their essentially lobbying wing.

So if you go and talk to somebody about it, it's not like you and I talking about something we don't know.

One side's got essentially a team of lawyers and all this data set on the back and it's me saying, but it's still not ethical, you know, it's still not ethical.

So, um, it's interesting in that way.

And I think we're going to see it come up in like these Alaska governor debates.

I think there's a couple candidates there out of this 19 that have started to do like some kind of pro-traw commercials.

So I think we're going to see it come up in like these political debates there.

Yeah, it will be.

They, uh, there was one, uh, Dave Bronson's one of the guys running for governor up there.

And he said he was digging around this, uh, this NPFMC, this federal fisheries council that regulates it.

And one of the guys there told him anonymously that he said, if they ever tried to regulate pollock as a forage fish, or if somebody from that regulatory agency brought that up, that they would lose their job or essentially be eliminated from that process, because that's such a threat for them to have to consider that, Hey, there's other stuff that eats pollock too.

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