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Austin Esterbrooks
18:51 - 20:03
"we're tracking a broader, longer-term, what is the general abundance of Chinook on the grounds over a 3-week period? What is the larger temporal average rate that we're seeing? And then we look discrete spatial areas, so those ADF&G stat areas, and we see where in the Bering Sea we're seeing rates that are higher relative to that longer, broader-term Chinook abundance. We identify those areas that stand out above that broader-term bycatch rate, and then we then close those areas, and those areas are prohibited from fishing by any vessel that is not performing better than 25% or 25% better than that baseline average bycatch rate."
“we're tracking a broader, longer-term, what is the general abundance of Chinook on the grounds over a 3-week period? What is the larger temporal average rate that we're seeing? And then we look discrete spatial areas, so those ADF&G stat areas, and we see where in the Bering Sea we're seeing rates that are higher relative to that longer, broader-term Chinook abundance. We identify those areas that stand out above that broader-term bycatch rate, and then we then close those areas, and those areas are prohibited from fishing by any vessel that is not performing better than 25% or 25% better than that baseline average bycatch rate.”
- Speaker
- Austin Esterbrooks
- Timestamp
- 18:51 – 20:03
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- June 5, 2026
From the transcript
This is the, the detailed version of how our rolling hotspot program works, but I think generally for The high-level overview is that we're tracking a broader, longer-term, what is the general abundance of Chinook on the grounds over a 3-week period? What is the larger temporal average rate that we're seeing? And then we look discrete spatial areas, so those ADF&G stat areas, and we see where in the Bering Sea we're seeing rates that are higher relative to that longer, broader-term Chinook abundance. We identify those areas that stand out above that broader-term bycatch rate, and then we then close those areas, and those areas are prohibited from fishing by any vessel that is not performing better than 25% or 25% better than that baseline average bycatch rate. So you have to actually be performing better than everyone else in order to not be prohibited from fishing in that area.