Annemarie Hoang
16:11 - 16:26
"we know that in 2023 SRB recommended not including whale depredation because the change to TCEY would be really small. And so I think what I'm hearing from the commissioners is that they're seeing continuing increases in whale depredation."
“we know that in 2023 SRB recommended not including whale depredation because the change to TCEY would be really small. And so I think what I'm hearing from the commissioners is that they're seeing continuing increases in whale depredation.”
- Speaker
- Annemarie Hoang
- Timestamp
- 16:11 – 16:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
And maybe a different way of getting at this, as opposed to, you know, how about this thing, how about this thing, how about this thing, is maybe a broader question of, well, how different would catchability need to be in different areas and locations for it to make a difference to what the commissioners see in front of them, and how much of the difference would that be? I think basically broadly I'm really hearing that there is recognition that FIS plus space-time plus assessment model is the best available science, but I'm also hearing questions like, well, how do we make it better? So that's sort of mostly catchability, although whale depredation sort of ties into this. So I had a question around whale depredation, and we know that in 2023 SRB recommended not including whale depredation because the change to TCEY would be really small. And so I think what I'm hearing from the commissioners is that they're seeing continuing increases in whale depredation.
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