Annemarie Hoang
16:26 - 17:14
"So thinking forward, what amount of whale depredation would result in a large enough change to the stock assessment that would warrant the inclusion of whale depredation?"
“So thinking forward, what amount of whale depredation would result in a large enough change to the stock assessment that would warrant the inclusion of whale depredation?”
- Speaker
- Annemarie Hoang
- Timestamp
- 16:26 – 17:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- September 22, 2026
From the transcript
So thinking forward, what amount of whale depredation would result in a large enough change to the stock assessment that would warrant the inclusion of whale depredation? And then maybe looking at the current trend, if we extrapolate forward, about how long do we actually need to wait before we get to the point where will depredation impacts would be big enough to be warranted. And sort of, to me, this sort of ties back into the questions that I was hearing around, um, tides, bottom complexity, and generally moving away from the assumption of equal coast-wide catchability. I'm sort of hearing that each individual change on its own is pretty small. And so how do we balance the cumulative impacts of these multiple small changes on the stock assessment outputs that the commissioners see?
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