Kev,

I'm not sure what the checkers were talking about, but when it comes to salmon quotas, a "landing" is a fish that is actually brought to shore and sold or brought home.

If they counted released fish, how could they get an accurate count? I know my report would be "X number of fish landed and kept, and none caught and released" if a released fish counted against my, or our collective, limit.

Fish on...

Todd.

P.S. When I see fish tallies in the paper, they usually post how many fish were caught, how many were kept, and how many were released. Counting all the fish handled may be for informational purposes, but for quota purposes, I'm pretty sure that fish kept are all that count.