1 hour 45 minutes of trawler propaganda.
http://www.kodiakak.us/documents/44/126 ... 053654.WMA
The Canadians reduced their trawl bycatch of halibut from 3 million pounds down to under 200,000 lbs in the first year of their bycatch reduction program while catching all their trawl allowable catches. This was over 15 years ago and we have done nothing. Other species bycatch were reduced at the same time.
The Kodiak trawl fleet is majority out of state owned along with our processors. In fact the processors own the majority of the trawl fleet. They have avoided bycatch reduction, held a gun to our head, all to get us to capitulate to their demands for trawl IFQ's.