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Alaska commercial fishing news and notes
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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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- USCG reports Southeast sinking, helicopter rescue
- Board, council to talk trawl next month
- Dump those halibut, or donate?
- A warship in Whittier
- A big price increase for Bristol Bay fishermen
- UFA's new skipper
- Ideas, anyone?
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17 comments:
I'd rather dump amendment 80
How bout the just don’t catch them? Novel idea
The only legitimate use for halibut at these abundance levels is for Alaska recreational and subsistence anglers.
It’s sad that some people just agree to. David’s cult. You think trawlers are the bad guys? In the next phase let’s see what happens to ms Behnkens followers. Just a matter of time.
What a tone deaf suggestion, come on Glenn, do better.
Trawl and longline kill more bycatch more than sport fish keeps. Sport brings in more money and jobs to Alaska. Time to reallocate.
Charter Boats catch plenty of Halibut. 90 percent of which leave the State in fish boxes in Southeast. When Halibut stocks are at Historic lows everyone needs to be conservative.
Charter gets one fish a day and is tied up part of the week. When was the last time trawl or longline had to sit at the dock while we went fishing?
They should donate all bycatch
This is fake news, the best available science shows wasting millions of pounds of bycatch is not a big deal.
The best available science also says that having a fishery that only harvests mature breeding females is sustainable. You know who doesn't do that? Sport fishermen.
“When was the last time longliners were tied to the dock?”
Mine is tied to the dock 50 weeks a year. Not so for the charter boats, and the “unguided” only keep growing.
This is a terrible idea. If all bycatch from trawlers was processed and retained for donation, trawling would not be feasible.
Sounds like you don't own much quota. Better work on your business plan. Unguided is a legit user group. Everyday Americans have a right to our resources.
90+ percent of bycatch is processed and used. You're out of your element here donny
Unguided sport fishermen contribute zero to the conservation of halibut biomass, regardless of the status of the stocks.
Their catch "comes off the top' when all halibut mortality is accounted for. Two fish a day, no size limit, every day - and those non-limits by rec fishermen lower the the commercial uses of the fish. In effect: their harvests don't matter.
The dude who comes off the Slope, takes his family to Whittier to fish off this $200k boat in PWS to take 2 fish per day, of any size, for 2 days for each member onboard, then claims he's "fishing to feed his family" is how we currently manage this fishery.
If we didn't have commercial fishing, we wouldn't need to spend millions on a dysfunctional management system that can't even conduct surveys or agree to follow the science. Rec fishing will never take as much as the trawl and longliners waste in bycatch every year. It'll happen someday, maybe sooner if we get the right gov.
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