Smalma is correct. There is an old saying in the fisheries management business... a dead fish is a dead fish. Or, stated another way, mortality as a result of fishing is still mortality. It can occur in a directed, indirected, gillnet, seine, C&R, mark selective, or in any other type of fishery you care to think of. ANY fishing effort results in mortality and that mortality must be accounted for if fsiheries are to be managed properly.