Actually, one thing the state REALLY needs to do is to mark the hatchery fish better. I saw alot of fish caught this last october. I personally kept most of my fish (most had intact adipose and all fins in fact). Guess how many of those fish had snouts cut off by fish checkers??? ALL of them. Hard to weed them out. But, I don't waste the fish, and so far the areas I'm fishing haven't been listed as ESA. But, I fish to eat them occasionally. I don't agree with slaughtering fish just to kill them. And if it's ESA, releasing fish ASAP to limit kill. But I feel alot more studies need to be done, and alot more work needs to be done to segregate the fish they want us to catch and the one's they don't. No use in releasing hatchery fish if we have no idea if we have one or not. I'm all for recovery, and do my part, but at times it's hard to tell which side of line you're on.
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