In response to your post, spawnout, are you familiar with a location to find stats on bycatch for drift gillnets (not to be confused with drift nets) in AK, particularly?

Yes, I realize that bycatch reports are only worth something if stuff is reported (that's why they call them reports! wink )

I would have thought that the deep water fisheries (Tree Point, and Point Baker in S.E. Alaska, for instance) would be fairly selective, as there really aren't that many fish other than salmon that high in the water column that I'm aware of. Just curious...