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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

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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