Francis, comparing an east coast fishery that targets, say, redfish to a mixed-stock hatchery/wild composite is like comparing digging clams to buying cherries at a grocery store.

When we are talking about an overfished stock of target fish, then reduce harvest, increase numbers...it is that simple. Just like the management of the razor clam digs around here...count the clams in the ground, count the clams that can be harvested, go harvest them, and no more.

Simple.

That's how you can manage a non-mixed stock...harvest management is simple.

Here in the PNW, all fisheries in the LCR catch all kinds of things...non-target species, wild and listed target species, hatchery fish of target species...comparing that to non-mixed stocks on the east coast is not even like comparing apples to oranges...it's like comparing apples to moon rocks.

When the allocations of hatchery fish are based on how many wild fish are killed, it doesn't matter how they're killed...they will die, period.

There is no way whatsoever to sell this as being good for wild springers, since it kills the exact same amount.

There is no way whatsoever to sell this as being good for sportfishing for hatchery springers, since there will be far less to fish over.

It can easily be sold as being good for wild steelhead, but that's not what it's being sold as.

Fish on...

Todd

P.S. This would be a bad idea if Mother Theresa were selling it...it has nothing to do with the CCA, or liking commercial fishermen, or gillnets, or nothing else...when some of you lower yourselves to calling people who don't like this obviously bad idea as "haters" or "gillnet lovers", it's because you don't have anything else to hang your hat on.