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Austin Esterbrooks
11:47 - 12:25
"chum salmon bycatch, again relative to the 2024, um, it was a higher year for chum salmon. And this was again reduced sea ice, typically, uh, causes the pollock and chum distributions in the B season to overlap more extensively because there's less feed on the shelf relative to along the shelf break. And the salmon are primarily basin dwellers, and so in the warmer years, there is more overlap with the fishery and the chum distributions."
“chum salmon bycatch, again relative to the 2024, um, it was a higher year for chum salmon. And this was again reduced sea ice, typically, uh, causes the pollock and chum distributions in the B season to overlap more extensively because there's less feed on the shelf relative to along the shelf break. And the salmon are primarily basin dwellers, and so in the warmer years, there is more overlap with the fishery and the chum distributions.”
- Speaker
- Austin Esterbrooks
- Timestamp
- 11:47 – 12:25
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
Uh, chum salmon bycatch, again relative to the 2024, um, it was a higher year for chum salmon. And this was again reduced sea ice, typically, uh, causes the pollock and chum distributions in the B season to overlap more extensively because there's less feed on the shelf relative to along the shelf break. And the salmon are primarily basin dwellers, and so in the warmer years, there is more overlap with the fishery and the chum distributions.