I didn't "re-define" selective...I told you what it means...which is really not much. Selective in this context means you keep the hatchery fish, release the wild fish and non-target species.

You can do that with anything, not just a purse seine...just so happens that purse seines are better at it. Calling a gillnet or a tangle net "non-selective" is flat out incorrect...the tool is not selective or non-selective, the policy of a particular fishery is.

If there's a wide open fishery where everything in the net is to be retained, guess what kind of fishery it is, even if you use a purse seine? It's a non-selective fishery...with a purse seine.

Fish on...

Todd