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I watched an internal video of a CG boarding during the haulback on a pair trawler. The two vsls towing the net came along side and passed off the net to the factory ship which actually hauls it in. They were fishing for what I forget, mid to top water - macks?... At any rate the bass bycatch was unbeleivable (huge and alot) and these guys could have cared less. So seeing the fish above and what I saw I have no doubt they are around. This was aroung the late 90's.
If these pelagic trawlers tell you they are a clean fishery they are full of it. I can only imagine the bycatch in the herring fishery
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