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Nicole Kimball
17:20 - 17:42
“this is what tries to keep salmon bycatch low throughout the season, no matter what the conditions are, no matter what salmon conditions are, salmon run conditions, no matter what pollock trends are.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Kimball
- Timestamp
- 17:20 – 17:42
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 8, 2026
From the transcript
I might have one more slide. Yeah. And then this is, this is a pretty important part. Caps are one thing that, you know, that's an upper limit so that you can't go beyond that or you close the fishery. But this is what tries to keep salmon bycatch low throughout the season, no matter what the conditions are, no matter what salmon conditions are, salmon run conditions, no matter what pollock trends are.
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