David Bays
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 20 Apr
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So they always.
Yeah, you're scraping them out of the mud.
They drop that net to the bottom a hundred percent of the time.
Pollocks spend a whole bunch of their time within, you know, one, two, three, four or five feet to the bottom.
but they'll also sometimes raise up.
And so they have this weird deal where they say it's not illegal to drag a midwater net on bottom, but the only reason that would be illegal or the only reason they say it was on bottom for regulatory purpose is if it pulls up 20 or more crab.
It's a weird deal.
Oh, okay.
In a single drag of the net, but they say if it pulled up 19 crab that it wasn't on the bottom.
And so it's this crazy regulatory concept that just doesn't really hold up.
I got you.
But they, if you start digging into their bycatch numbers, over the last five years, this Bering Sea Pollock fleet had 345 metric tons of starfish that they brought up to the deck of the boat as bycatch.
And they have about 40 million pounds of this flounder and sole, these fish that live
hard on the bottom.
And so then you start to see these conundrums.
And so, um, in about 2020, 2021, there was this big crab crash.
You might've seen the headlines.
Sure.
Of like 10 billion crab lost in the Bering Sea.
Yeah.
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