Brad Harris
206:13 - 206:41
“If we're going to make improvements and say Dr. Yokom comes up with a new design for foot rope to hear about, we want the ability to plug that in and say, okay, relative to the status quo gear, what is that likely to do?”
- Speaker
- Brad Harris
- Timestamp
- 206:13 – 206:41
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- October 20, 2026
From the transcript
Next is how are those gears actually fished? That's interviews with skippers to determine how they actually design, implement, and deploy the gear in the course of fishing, and then ultimately to recreate those in a framework that's something that we can use as a scientific testbed. If we're going to make improvements and say Dr. Yokom comes up with a new design for foot rope to hear about, we want the ability to plug that in and say, okay, relative to the status quo gear, what is that likely to do? It's extremely expensive to go try to do that in the field or even in downscaled models like in a flume tank. So we want to develop simulation capacity that lets us explore and test those innovations before we have to pay to build them, if that makes sense.
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