Nicole Kimball
17:43 - 17:58
"salmon excluders are required. That's an excluder that you put on your gear, you put on your net... They're required in the Bering Sea. So that's supposed to let the pollock come into the net and be efficiently catching pollock."
“salmon excluders are required. That's an excluder that you put on your gear, you put on your net... They're required in the Bering Sea. So that's supposed to let the pollock come into the net and be efficiently catching pollock.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Kimball
- Timestamp
- 17:43 – 17:58
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 8, 2026
From the transcript
And so salmon excluders are required. That's an excluder that you put on your gear, you put on your net. We have some really great gear experts at APU, actually. They're required in the Bering Sea. So that's supposed to let the pollock come into the net and be efficiently catching pollock.
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