Originally Posted By: Todd
The point of moving the fishing into the SAFE areas is that there are far less wild fish there, reducing the bycatch...if you use purse seines in the SAFE areas then you get double the bang for your buck...far less wild fish encounters, and a higher release mortality...and far less of an impact on sportfishing opportunity.

A win-win-win.

Fish on...

Todd

OMG,one of the next things you say will probably be that you are starting to wear a burnt orange cap. beer

The report showed a high ratio of sturgeon to target fish in the SAFE area gill net tests which was done many years ago. So I agree that purse seiners would do a much better job releasing sturgeon as by catch unharmed than gill nets.
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