Olaf Jensen
49:04 - 49:29
"one of the things that wasn't immediately apparent to me is that these decisions about the lower left of the curve, they do matter because there's the biomass."
“one of the things that wasn't immediately apparent to me is that these decisions about the lower left of the curve, they do matter because there's the biomass.”
- Speaker
- Olaf Jensen
- Timestamp
- 49:04 – 49:29
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
Yeah. Joanna, one of the things that wasn't immediately apparent to me is that these decisions about the lower left of the curve, they do matter because there's the biomass. So it seems like a very small difference, but it's multiplied by how much proportion of the biomass. Yeah, especially in today's environment where we're seeing a lot of young fish in the Pacific halibut stock right now. And we did, as part of the full assessment last year, we actually did a sensitivity.
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