Tom Carpenter
146:10 - 146:52
“If you have an overlay in an area of multiple gear types, how do you quantify when it comes to habitat or the, the length of time in which the seafloor would need to, let's say, rehabilitate itself?”
- Speaker
- Tom Carpenter
- Timestamp
- 146:10 – 146:52
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
When you look at the footprint in which multiple gear types could have an impact on any given area, and then you— I would assume that you have ratios or percentages of how much impact or bottom contact is associated with any given gear type. If you have an overlay in an area of multiple gear types, how do you quantify when it comes to habitat or the, the length of time in which the seafloor would need to, let's say, rehabilitate itself? How do you quantify in that particular given area which ones of, which gear types is creating the actual problem. And do you see what I'm trying to get at? Maybe I'm not asking it real eloquently, but if you could try and touch on that, I'd appreciate it.
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