Geoduck:

Your line of reasoning that banning nets it purely allocative is correct.... but

The point you miss is that a gillnet is exceedingly non-selective. It can't distinguish an imperiled species from a thriving one. Nets don't discriminate between killing hatchery vs wild fish.

Oh wait, that doesn't matter anymore.... I forgot that hatchery fish and wild fish are now all the same.
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