David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Um, there's a lot going on in the background.
And I think that's a, so that's been a big, like near and dear issue to me is that now there's this accusation that this is like a big green movement in Alaska or people from the outside want to come and force their conservation rules onto us.
And I've, so we've had that Facebook group about six years.
I'm the main person that posts on there.
And I've had probably hundreds of messages or seen comments of people that say, Hey, we have to get, I'm going to make more enemies.
We have to get Greenpeace in here.
We have to get.
peta in here or sea shepherd or whatever it may be and i say oh my god no like we don't that's not how we want conservation to go we're fishermen ourselves we run this big risk of if this becomes too much of a headline issue and trawl feeds off of this as it messages alaskans they run this fear factor deal of hey we're going to get these guys in here that think fishing is unethical completely and they're going to shut it all down for you guys but
that is really not the vibe, you know, Mike.
Yeah, I mean, so I think the question to ask the other side is like, you know, with the midwater nets on bottom, they say, hey, if we're not allowed to fish for pollock on the bottom with these midwater nets, we'll go out of business.
But does that really make sense to somebody to say that, you know, or they say, hey, if these pollock were regulated as a bait fish because everything eats them.
then that could put us out of business.
And I think they need to be pushed on that of, is that because you're getting paid, you know, millions of billions of dollars to catch these fish?
Or is that because that's common sense and good conservation?
And for me, it's when they exclude that to even say that, hey, we might, we're going to get fired from this fisheries regulation process if we even bring up the idea that pollock should be regulated as a forage fish is essentially corruption, you know, or it's not, it doesn't follow the intent of good governance that we all depend on and
we live by, you know, so.
Understood.
As that starts to fall apart, it has ramifications for, uh, wildlife everywhere.
Yeah, thanks a lot.
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