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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Regulators that promote trawling are stuck in a short term profit over long term conservation mindset.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

4 months

The ocean cannot sustain industrial scale waste, it should be criminalized.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

Bottom trawling is a dirty fishery supported by dirty management.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

5 months

ALL forms of trawling in Alaska drag the seafloor!

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

This factory trawling. NOAA supports factory trawling in Alaska.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Trawling is not sustainable.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

When are fisheries managers in Alaska going to open their eyes and realize bottom trawling is a horrendous fishing method.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

The killer whale that @NOAAFisheriesAK claims was released alive from a factory trawler was recently seen sleeping on some rocks.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

In 2021, a total of 15,827 sub-adult Chinook salmon were allowed to be taken as bycatch in all Bering Sea groundfish fisheries. Betrayed by @NOAAFisheriesAK

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Humpback whale factory trawl bycatch in Alaska. NOAA refuses to send more photos of marine mammals killed by trawlers without a FOIA request. They are protecting trawl.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Another post in response to @MSCecolabel asking “So you can confirm that this is from an MSC certified fishery?” This photo shows a factory trawler deck with 11 sleeper sharks. These sharks can live to be hundreds of years old.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Industrial trawler bycatch

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Seattle trawlers have wasted 4,000,000 of Alaskan halibut in the Bering Sea this year. With this year’s market price that is $32,000,000 in lost value. #Sustainability

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Despite its own photographic evidence showing massive destruction from trawling, NOAA still tries to convince the world that trawling is a sustainable fishing practice.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

10 months

They won't stop until the ocean is empty and their bank accounts are full.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Trawling - lots of bycatch - not #sustainable

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

It’s ironic trawling for fish to make imitation crab is contributing to the extinction of actual crab.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

#shark Trawling waste is staggering and is counter to #Sustainability

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

6 months

The trawl enthusiasts at NOAA hate this study.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The orange color scheme is only used in the O'Hara corporation fleet. The vessel is either the Enterprise, Defender, or the Constellation based on the type of steel used for the rigging (large round tube steel).

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

5 months

This is the marine mammal body count of Alaska trawl for 2014-2021. The NOAA reporting is delayed by years so the recent large number of killer whale deaths by trawl is not included. @NOAAFisheriesAK keeps this information off the radar, and very inaccessible.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

10 months

Some countries follow the science. @NOAAFisheriesAK follows the money.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

4 months

Journalist who covered Alaska trawl issues for @USATODAY was terminated

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

NOAA acknowledged the killer whale take was from an Alaska fishery. From the photo you can see it is a trawl vessel (net and trawl way), and from the deck arrangement it we see it is a factory trawl vessel.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Fished on a factory trawler for four (4) years: “I left the industry, in part, due to the devastation of the fish population and clear destruction of habitat. I equated the practice to to hunting deer in the forest with a machine gun on top of a bulldozer”

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

O'Hara advertises the operate in @MSCecolabel certified fisheries.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Out of control waste

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The catch on deck is all bottom fish which narrows down the vessels to the Amendment 80 factory trawl fleet. Finally, in the background the orange trawl way superstructure is visible. There are five amendment 80 fish companies, only one company uses an orange superstructure.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

For 2022 Trawlers have wasted: thousand of salmon, 4,300,000 pounds of halibut, 3,800,000 pounds of herring, and hundreds of thousands crab. Obscene waste of Alaska’s valuable resources.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The trawl fleet that is wreaking havoc in Alaska is home ported out of Washington and Oregon. Those states have taken steps to ban bottom trawling in nearly all of their waters. Alaskan's are being exploited.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

6 months

Alaska does not need this.

Blue Planet Society

@Seasaver

10 months

#Supertrawlers are giant factory ships, usually 100 metres+, that catch tonnes of fish, and whatever else is in their way, every day with their kilometre-long nets. #bycatch It’s not hard to imagine the devastating impact they have on the ocean. Read the article:

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Fisheries regulations like the MSA were created to protect the fisheries from plunder. Managers in AK have perverted the rules and the scientific process to maximize revenue to the trawl sector and their agency budgets. AK fisheries management has legalized plunder.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

Industrial trawling has depleted Alaska’s seas

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

“I normally put away 2,000 chum salmon to feed my dog team,” said Mike Williams, Sr. “Last year I caught only two.”pollock trawlers – last year caught and discarded 540,000 chum. He said, “The waste of a single fish is unjust for indigenous fishermen.” Williams is from Akiak.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

NOAA confirms multiple killer whale kills in 2023 Alaska factory trawl fishery.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

10 months

⁦ @McDonalds ⁩ doesn’t want to talk about sourcing filet-o-fish from high bycatch trawlers

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

A single factory trawler will see more Yukon River King Salmon in 2022 than all the smoke houses on the Yukon combined will.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

9 months

There has been a loss of common sense with ⁦ @NOAAFisheriesAK ⁩, you can’t allow bottom trawling on the crab grounds and expect healthy crab stocks.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

6 months

Bottom trawling is an indiscriminate and wasteful fishing method. NOAA supports bottom trawling. 🦀 💀 🦀 💀 🦀

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

In 2022 it was illegal to subsistence fish for chum in Western Alaska. At the same time the corrupt fisheries managers allowed factory trawlers to continue with unlimited chum bycatch.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

If you really want to know what happened to the 9 dead killer whales. A #corrupt agency has been shifting high value black cod allocation to the industrial trawl fleet, and left a paper trail that proves it.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Why have we not figured out what everyone else has? Close the Gulf of Alaska to destructive bottom trawling.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Anyone who claims trawling is sustainable is delusional. @NOAAFisheriesAK @SustainFishUW

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

It is moronic to allow the seafloor to be dragged.

Caitlin || She/Her || 🐋🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@thatsealgirl

1 year

First up, the impact of scallop dredging. Dredges typically feature a spring-loaded bar covered in metal ‘teeth’ designed to dig up the seabed to disturb & catch scallops, towing a heavy steel-ring collecting ‘bag’ behind. It’s highly destructive, classed as ‘high impact’.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

It bears reminding, in the face of a subsistence salmon shut down for Native Alaskans, a billionaire European family is allowed to continue taking salmon through its trawl corporation holding. How does that fit your inclusion and equity goals @NorthPacificFMC @NOAAFisheriesAK ?

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

This summer, Kenai Peninsula beaches from Ninilchik to Kenai will be empty of setnets. Family-run commerial fishing businesses, have been shut down and may not be coming back. Yet ⁦ @NOAAFisheries ⁩ lets corporate trawlers drag unencumbered.

OPINION: The end of an era for Alaska fishing may already be here

The current decline, darkly, seems tied to failing chinook runs all over Alaska and the West Coast.

www.adn.com

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Bottom trawling is a dirty fishery

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Colonialism defined by a place being exploited for resource extraction with the profits being sent to the colonizer, the colony is left with the damage. Alaska is being treated as a colony by out of state trawl interests.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

No salmon openers this summer for Kuskokwim gillnetters, but trawlers get no restrictions. Alaska’s fisheries are run by insane people with insane objectives.

No salmon openers this summer for Kuskokwim gillnetters

Outlook is grim for all salmon species except sockeyes.

alaskafish.news

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Our position is that fisheries managers are manipulating Alaska to allow large trawl corporations to continue to exploit the state.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

During the week of Feb 11th Bering Sea trawlers wasted: 222,600 pounds of HALIBUT 1,969 CHINOOK 13,100 CRAB Alaska cannot claim it's fisheries are sustainable with these obscene amounts of waste.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Wreck the seafloor, annihilate the traditional directed fisheries, decimate coastal communities, shutdown indigenous traditional subsistence, kill hundreds of marine mammals - all for corporate profits - thank @noaafisheries

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The halibut savings area was closed to halibut fishermen because it was recognized as critical nursery grounds. The maniacs with @NOAAFisheries allow bottom trawlers to operate in the area, and it has the highest halibut bycatch rates in the Bering Sea.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

An example of #inequality indigenous villagers in Alaska were ordered to stop traditional subsistence chinook salmon fishing by regulators, at the same time, European owned factory trawlers were not subject to these same restrictions. #INDIGENOUS @NorthPacificFMC @MaryPeltola

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Bottom trawling in Alaska is not sustainable. Why does @MSCecolabel certify them? 💸🤑💸

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Halibut - collapsed Chinook and Chum - Collapsed King Crab - Collapsed Snow Crab - Collapsed Accountability for the managers @NorthPacificFMC @NOAAFisheries - ZERO

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

4 months

Video footage of Gulf of Alaska trawler crab bycatch. What is happening when the cameras aren’t on. These trawlers only have partial observer coverage. This level of waste is not reasonable, it has to be intentional.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

When Alaskans started voicing there concerns about factory trawler bycatch what was @GovDunleavy response? He took a guided tour of a factory trawler with a Seattle trawl lobby.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

AK trawlers have wasted over 3,000,000 pounds of halibut this year, but everyone else gets restricted.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

The amount of pure waste in Alaska's trawl fisheries is inexcusable.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

There is no coherent argument for Alaska to allow industrial bottom trawling.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Trawlers wasted 80 metric tons of halibut last week. The cause of the halibut collapse is not a mystery.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Trawl waste - Full totes of halibut being dumped in Kodiak. Let’s not forget everyone else in Alaska has been restricted on halibut.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

11 months

⁦ @NOAAFisheriesAK ⁩

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Feedback from the ⁦ @MaryPeltola ⁩ Trawl Bycatch Listen Session in Anchorage. “30 to 60 year process”? Contrast with how they shut down a crab fishery in just one year.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

They say “It’s never gonna happen again” and then it happens again, goodbye to yet another Alaska fishery. It’s time for NOAA to use some common sense.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Revolving door, Trident Seafoods, a major player in the trawl business, lands a NOAA executive. You gotta pay to play with Alaska’s fisheries management 💰 💰 💰

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

@lars_spb Zero

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

8 months

@LeoDiCaprio is against bottom trawling.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Alaskans have been cut off from salmon, meanwhile the Seattle factory trawl fleet has the @NOAAFisheries granted privilege of catching and discarding over 70,000 Chinook in 2023.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Look at the mess that AK trawlers pull up in their nets, it’s destroying the bottom for all life. 🍃☠️ No wonder Alaska is facing multiple species collapses.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Billions of crab missing but trawlers are still allocated 3.6 million snow crab as bycatch waste. ⁦ @NOAAFisheriesAK ⁩ is a criminal enterprise.

Billions of snow crabs are missing. A remote Alaska village depends on the harvest to survive.

If you layer climate-related disruptions — such as rising sea levels and shrinking populations of fish and game — on top of economic troubles, it just increases the pressure to migrate.

alaskapublic.org

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Corporate profits over #indigenous subsistence

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The distressing reality is that the health of our oceans is under existential threat, the current management system benefits industrial-scale fishing fleets, whose fishings results in destruction of essential fish habitat and bycatch of salmon, halibut and crab. #Sustainability

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Sealord ordered to forfeit $24 million vessel and pay penalties for trawling in a protected area | Newshub

Sealord ordered to forfeit $24 million vessel and pay penalties for trawling in a protected area |...

The offending relates to five trawls in 2018.

www.newshub.co.nz

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

6 months

NOAA supports bottom trawling. They are going against what everyone else is doing in fisheries management.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Number of chinook wasted by trawl sector in one week, at a time of historic low populations in Western AK. @GovDunleavy @NOAAFisheriesAK @MaryPeltola @lisamurkowski

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

How bad is Alaska getting ripped off by the feds and the Seattle trawl fleet? In 2022 trawlers wasted 1,954 tons of halibut valued at $32,299,000. In return AK collected $5,800,000 in tax. Our state is run by fools. @GovDunleavy @MaryPeltola @lisamurkowski @SenDanSullivan

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Alaska’s tribal subsistence sector are pushing for a “hard cap” on Alaska salmon bycatch for Alaska pollock trawlers as the state deals with the fallout from a precipitous drop in chum salmon stocks in western Alaska.

AK trawlers say chum cap "will shut down the pollock fleet entirely"

Trawlers divert bycatch reduction discussions to 'genetic origins' of salmon. Do those going without care where the fish originate?

alaskafish.news

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Let’s take a vote in Alaska: Ban bottom trawling yes or no?

Transform Bottom Trawling Coalition

@TBTCoalition

1 year

Hundreds gathered to protest against #bottomtrawling in the #HaurakiGulf this weekend. Over 84% of people surveyed want trawling gone from the gulf so that marine #ecosystems and #lowimpact fisheries can recover. Learn more here and show your support👉

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

10 months

Trust the Experts

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

The 80 metric tons of halibut wasted by trawlers in one week had a value of $1,322,000 to Alaskan communities at last year’s dock price. They are taking money out of small towns to boost private equity’s bottom line.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

It’s not about kicking out fishermen coming from Seattle. It’s about scaling back the most destructive form is commercial fishing - bottom trawling. The damage caused by bottom trawling is a unfair tax on Alaska. @lisamurkowski @SenDanSullivan @MaryPeltola

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

7 months

When are fisheries regulators going to wake up?

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@Trawler_Bycatch

8 months

Industrial scale trawling is not compatible with Alaska’s ocean ecosystem or Alaska’s values. It’s time has passed.

Mary Peltola

@MaryPeltola

8 months

With salmon, king crab, and snow crab populations having crashed in years past, it’s more important than ever for us to fight for sustainable, adaptive management policies that protect and rehabilitate our fisheries. They’re too vital for us to stand idly by while they diminish.

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Alaska was identified as a hot spot for fishing vessels disabling AIS systems.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

2 years

Yet trawlers are allowed to continue to keep catching and discarding Chinook salmon.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

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1 week - mostly out of state industrial trawlers in the Bering Sea wasted: 31 metric tons of halibut, 23,800 snow crab, and 1,950 king salmon. All these species are currently in trouble, @NOAAFisheriesAK doesn’t enact conservation on the Seattle fleet. @MaryPeltola @GovDunleavy

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Trawler Bycatch Tracker 🦀

@Trawler_Bycatch

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Trawling is depleting the ocean. NOAA knows it and @joerogan knows it.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Why Calls To Ban Bottom Trawling Are Growing. It is not just an Alaskan Issue. ⁦ @GovDunleavy ⁩ ⁦ @MaryPeltola ⁩ ⁦ @lisamurkowski ⁩

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@Trawler_Bycatch

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In just 84 days 2,045,312 pounds of dead halibut caught and tossed by Seattle trawlers fishing for China. Those fish would be worth $16,000,000 if Alaskan halibut fishermen were allowed to catch them. NOAA protecting corporate profits over small time fishermen.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

Time for a shift to #sustainability

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@Trawler_Bycatch

1 year

What is wrong with these people?

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@Trawler_Bycatch

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Alaska trawlers are allowed to waste 9 million pounds of halibut per year.

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@Trawler_Bycatch

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"All the Elders from that time are almost all gone. Younger generations don’t know what we lost because many of them were not born yet. The longer salmon cultures go without, the more acceptable bad management practices will be. Not everyone has passed that remembers how it was."