David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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Yeah, we're making money.
That is so unvaluable.
Yeah.
Well, and so that's what brings us to why they use trawlers in the first place and why we don't see trawlers or draggers everywhere is that they really shine on super low value, high volume fish, which coincidentally ends up being like a lot of the bait fish type species.
That's what's super plentiful.
But their case is that they could never catch enough pounds of it to make money off of it unless they were dragging it up, you know, six square miles of the seafloor per day type deal or 200,000 pounds at a time.
Um, but what we've really found to be the scandal, if you will, in all of this is that, so we said that bottom trawl is bad.
It's banned a lot of places.
There's really not much argument about that.
Even the bottom trawlers in Alaska just kind of hunker down as this conversation happens because.
The more people find out that it even exists up there, the more people want it banned.
That's just established across the world.
But kind of the, like I say, the sandal of it is that we've actually found out that the midwater nets now are on bottom 20 to 100% of the time.
But where that really, the rubber meets the road on that is that those midwater nets are allowed to fish in these critical habitat areas where bottom trawl has been banned.
So the fish regulators understand that
these huge nets are on the bottom sometimes all the time.
Um, but they haven't taken this next step to ban them from where bottom trawling is banned, which is this huge disconnect.
That's where it's
You're, this sounds unbelievable, but it's essentially not defined or they call it midwater because they will sometimes lift the nets up off the bottom.
So it's not the fish, the difference between bottom trawl for target species like flounder and sole is that those fish always live in the mud, buried in the bottom.
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