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- Deckboss
- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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- Prince William Sound pollock trawl fishery set
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- Silver Bay, Trident score USDA contracts
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33 comments:
Glad some fishermen are finally standing up to the NGO-funded BS.
Which ngo is funding the bs?
Arabella (through New Venture Fund and $almon$tate), Ocean Conservancy, Walton/Betty Moore Foundations (AMCC, Salmonstate, Oceana, Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association)
all this anti trawl bs targeting pollock only muddys the waters and distracts from the real bad guys the amendment 80 fleet
I don’t see how on bottom trawling by any fleet would be a good thing.
completely agree.
Don't forget that salmon state is likely paying david bayez to run his fb page
You don't understand how trawl gear is designed or operates and don't understand how habitat protection is managed at the council, then.
Everybody else in the world says the same thing. Once they banned draggers in Puget Sound, Commercial Dungeness Crab permits skyrocketing value from $2500.00 to, good luck finding one today for sale.
There are two camps on the anti-trawler debate.
One side is the trawlers — the other side is all other humans on Earth.
Lol. Classic anti-trawl rhetoric. No facts, ignores all the science, and washes out all the communities and fisheries that are dependent on trawl. Leaving the amendment 80 sector aside, go ahead and show me one actual negative impact from the pollock fishery. Go back to your little facebook cult and leave this page for people that actually fish.
Everyone else in the world? Hahaha. The vast majority of fish globally are harvested by trawl. Stop getting your fishing info from a guy that lives in his moms basement.
It is curious that public relations push by the trawl sector has a lot of similarities with left wing politics. A lot of 'trust the experts' , selective data reporting, and conspiracy theories of billionaires behinds the scenes.
That's exactly what someone from salmonstate would say.
It's curious that the dregs from Facebook who have never fished and never been to a council meeting can't respond substantively or present an actual impact. Amazing how trusting fisheries science is now a bad thing and defending one's fishery that produces more than 80% of the landings from Alaska makes one a troll. Get bent and tell Davy his mom said dinner is ready and he can come upstairs.
Imagine how the same logic would sound if it were applied to any gear type other than trawl.
Suppose a group of NGOs launched a campaign with out-of-state money to “stop pot fishery bycatch,” blaming pot fisheries for the collapse of several important species, which is a serious concern. They never specify which pot fishery they mean, what gear configurations are involved, or even which part of the state they’re talking about. Target species don’t matter either—crab, shrimp, sablefish—it’s all the same. They lump all catch data together to make it look bigger.
Most of their audience gets its fish news from a Facebook group, which is led by some guy. Their followers aren’t stupid, but most are unlikely to read a technical paper or attend a council meeting to hear scientists explain that the declines were actually driven by other factors—and that shutting down these fisheries would change little because their impact is so small.
Instead, the movement rejects the scientists and anyone with a different view. The facebook guy has a lot of followers now and a lot of people are very upset, therefore anyone who disagrees must be corrupt. Meanwhile, the NGOs press ahead because an election with national significance is coming and their donors want a return on their investment.
Wouldn’t that be a ridiculous way for real fishermen to engage on a serious fisheries issue?
I find it entirely ironic that the resounding mantra of the "True Believers" is how the big bad Seattle companies are taking all of the resources out of state.
No one ever touches the fact that 85-90% of the charter clients that Mr. Bayes depends on are out-of-staters…
Someone should send Bayes a bag of pollock fish sticks for Christmas
Claiming that Dr. Bob Foy is a bought and paid for ally of the trawl fleet was a beautiful moment in proving that Davey’s group is a cult of personality at best… there’s a reason why they have zero credibility at the council level. The icing on the cake was the tuna superseiner featured in their latest AI propaganda film.
Go ahead. End trawl. Kodiak will die a swift death.
The salmon fleet will lose 50% of their large capacity tenders.
Maybe Davey can employ all the despondent cannery workers at his flourishing charter business?!
I second this sentiment.
Does he really live in his mama's basement?
You can fight it all you want, but regulation is coming your way. The bycatch data supports the longliner’s allegation that the trawl fleet killed off the juvenile halibut. And of course there’s going to be support from the libtards down south…. You dumbasses drug up a bunch of killer whales for Christ sake. Sure the Seattle times propped your fishery up, claiming it was the model of sustainability. But everyone knows that’s all bullshit now.
Instead of denying, you should be trying to placate the salmon, halibut, and crab fisherman whom you’re screwing. Pay them token reparations for your impacts so you can get these guys on your side, or at least neutral. As someone said above, it’s you against the world, and the world is waking up to how dirty your fishery is.
And there lays the problem. So many of the voices demanding regulatory changes do not understand the fisheries they want to regulate. They lump them all together, as if they’re all the same, and take information wildly out of context. Could you imagine adding up all seine harvest statewide and then effectively advocating for anything with that information?
This campaign would be far more effective if they at least took the time to understand the fisheries they want to regulate out of existence.
The Times propped up many fisheries over the years that are now extinct, just like their main competitor, Blethen v. Hurst at the Seattle P-I. Blethen still owns 50.5%, with McClatchy holding the rest. Their Joint Operating Agreement with Hurst was murdered in that Washington State Supreme Court, just like this North Pacific Fisheries Council, on its way to a Hearse. Hurst dropped the E, and added the T, when he hit South Carolina running from a church with the new ministry of Scottish Seceders in 1766. The whole NPFMC program is in Violation of the U.S. Constitution, but nobody in this industry can read at a 6th grade level.
Fish traps. Seattle corporations. Factory draggers. Seattle corps. Same story. Travel north and rape the shit out of everything.
Is that you Timmy, or is it you hired keyboard warrior Davy?
You can't even understand that the pollock fishery and amendment 80 are two different fisheries, but, yeah, i'm sure your analysis of the 'bycatch data' is spot on. Go back to your cult.
Love it.
Another “True Believer”…
Guess the Kodiak and Sand Point fleets simply don’t exist.
Wow. You hit everything on the angry FB troll bingo card. Remind me how many of the 600k angler days on the Kenai are from residents? And how many of those guide companies are investing millions into the state and paying millions in taxes? Take a lap, hun.
You’re missing my point completely. Try reading my above comment again.
Happy holidays.
More for the debate:
https://www.adn.com/opinions/letters/2025/12/26/letter-pollock-fishery-bycatch-isnt-driving-alaska-halibut-and-salmon-declines/
A couple of state legislators weigh in:
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2025/12/27/opinion-trawl-bycatch-may-not-be-the-sole-cause-of-alaska-salmon-declines-but-its-one-of-the-few-things-we-can-control/
There’s a YouTube video about this, the (Alaska Ocean). They catch a king crab pot in the trawl line. That’s after the skipper talks about how the fish are on the bottom. He says that the net is always on the bottom also
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