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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Clips from International Pacific Halibut CommissionClear

Olaf Jensen “we in 33 noted the presentation there, and I think we're very excited about the performance of the 50/50 mix.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 3 · Sep 24, 2026

“So why 50/50? Yeah, that was just—. I mean, that's, that's certainly where I would start, but I mean, can you go to 90/10?”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 2 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“I don't think Kayla, our survey manager, is super optimistic about our chances of getting vessels out there.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ian Stewart “Right now, egg output is an exponential function. Yeah, cubic, basically a cube. But what we want to know is, is, is eggs per gram body weight constant, or is that actually— that, and that comes from the— if that's got a slope, yeah, then you're actually producing more eggs per gram body weight.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ian Stewart “If we see a relationship there, then automatically we know that bigger fish are more valuable to the species.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“the base block design included the southern shelf edge, so this will be full sampling of 4 CD stations, as well as the islands, where density tends to be relatively high. So this would represent a substantial improvement over the surveys we've had in recent years.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ian Stewart “So, sure, there's not really any way to— define the plausibility of those hypotheses until we get some data.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“areas like 4B, which used to have high catch rates, are now very very expensive to fish. 2A, it was never that great, but it's, it's, it remains expensive to fish. But these, while a small component of the stock overall, are of local importance to the people who fish there.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ian Stewart “If there's a fecundity— really, a nonlinear fecundity relationship with body mass, then yes, we would get a different type of series. And that's why I've highlighted this, put people on notice. This is important.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“the base block design has a preliminary projected net loss cost of $131,000, which bear in mind, it's very preliminary, will be updated very soon”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“Our greatest concern is bias.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“The price of the chum salmon bait that we use remained at the average price for 2026 of $2.40 per pound. We already know, assumption is not true. It's close to $4 a pound.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“if we're off by 100%, it's not a huge bias, coastal trend, but in terms of making management decisions about what's going on in 4B, it's very—.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“Price this year is, uh, 19.5% up compared to last year in Alaska.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ian Stewart “This makes me realize I don't fully understand how spawning biomass is defined. Is that the portion mature?”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“if it's very expensive, like it will be with 4A, we're less likely to attract bids. And that has been the case in recent years as well.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“It has not been sampled since 2019.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ann Marie

“The quota take on Area 4B is just like— 41% now, and the quota is taken substantially less than any other areas.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“On this itself, we achieved 30.8% higher price, right? So that's 30% increases over each year over the last 2 years.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“We know because we were boarding— for next year, we needed to secure it early. And so that's going to be a factor that increases the costs that you see projected today.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“Projected net revenue was a loss of $131,000, which if you're new here, you might not recognize how good that is. That is, when I first saw that, oh wow. And the Commissioner basically said the same thing last week, that this is as close to revenue neutral we've been for quite some time”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“We did not get— again, we had difficulty getting a viable bid for 4B or any kind of bid for 4B, and we did not sample it in 2026. 4B is also considered a biological region”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Ray Webster

“this area in the far west of 4B is the region we tried to sample in 2022 and got no bids on, and we'll see how it goes.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 2 Part 1 · Sep 23, 2026

Annemarie Hoang

“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?”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“I will just note that I do, I do anticipate a pretty large update for June of next year regarding both potentially 2025 histology samples, maybe even 2026 as well. And then also a lot of preliminary data on fecundity estimation, which is kind of the next big go-around as we start gearing up for the next major assessment update, which will be in 2028.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“we overlapped the Pacific Decadal Oscillation Index values. With the Coastwide A50 maturity. And as you can see, this does trend pretty well with the increase, as well as the decrease in the Coastwide A50 values.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“our previous indication was that we thought females did not mature any earlier than age 8 based on visual, but histologically we've actually found females to mature at age 7. So we have not seen any females, so we dropped it to 0 below 7 because we have never seen a mature female below that age.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “And it's also anecdotally, it's this brand new problem that's just come up in in the last couple decades, but I mean, Claude, you found records that go back to the 1950s documenting oil depredation. So it's a hard one.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“our A50 estimate dropped by 0.6 years from our previous estimate. So we have seen a slight shift in the left of the curve to younger maturing females.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Anna Kuparinen

“Senescence could be something interesting to look at, like especially if there's information about the relative fecundity of the really old big ones. Like does it bend down at some point or level out or—.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Annemarie Hoang

“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.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“from 2002 to 2016, there was a, decrease over— or an increase over time to older maturing females and an increase in the age 50 and then a sharp decrease down to 2021.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“there has been two distinct shifts during this time series. From 2002 to about 2016, there was a shift to older maturing females, and then at about 2016 to 2020, 2021, there was actually a large decrease in showing a lot younger maturing females over that time series.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “Well, I mean, it sounds like one of those issues that it doesn't affect most people, but it does affect you. It can difference between profitable and unprofitable.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Olaf Jensen “one of the things that wasn't immediately apparent to me is that these decisions about the lower left of the curve, they do matter because there's the biomass.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026

Colin Jones

“in 2025, we were actually able to collect samples across all 4 biological regions on the Settling Survey, which was great.”

29th Session of the IPHC Scientific Review Board SRB029, Day 1 Part 1 · Sep 22, 2026