OK just thinking out loud.

With WDFW taking the recommendations of HSRG to use selective commercial gear in the CR and testing coming in last year at 1% mortality for purse seines and say it comes in at 2% this year VS sport 10% and gill nets 40% tangle nets 18 ½% combined =25% mortality (the feds math). The seiners could catch 12 ½ times what current commercial gear catches now.

So let’s say they have a quota that allows them 1/4 of 12 ½X
The sports fish until their mortality impact kicks in. The commercials mop up after sports. They catch 3X’s the fish satisfying HSRG recommendation of less stray’s on spawning beds while using only 1/4 impact and eliminating gill net problems all together.

Right now we have a conservation savings of 75% of ESA listed wild fish from commercial slice of pie..

Knowing the states they will probably want to transfer that 75% savings upriver to stimulate the economy with fishing opportunity on less fish.

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