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Originally posted by Todd:
Until the commercial industry starts using selective fishing techniques (NOT coho nets to selectively catch hatchery springers while catching and releasing 2/3 of the fish that swim into the nets, 1/3 of which are steelhead, steelhead that are the size of fish that are MEANT to be gilled by coho nets, not tangled), they have no business fishing over those Col. R. runs.

Using a net that catches two listed wild fish for every target hatchery fish, and that net is designed to catch and kill half of those listed fish, is not selective fishing.

Who will make it so? I'll be a bit cynical for a second, but I don't think that the commercial industry will adopt a more selective technique on their own.

Uh oh, here we go again.

In commercial fishing, gear selectivity is defined for size, not species. Gillnets are the most selective fishing gear to be used. Small holes catch small fish. Large holes catch large fish. Medium holes catch fish in between. That is the definition of gear selectivity in fisheries.

The only real way I know how you can select for species is management, as I don't know of any fisheries gear techniques that can select for species (effectively). IE, don't allow selective gear fisheries to fish when endangered (or ESA) fish are present.

Stop saying gill nets are not selective. They are....just not for species..especially if your species are all roughly the same size! wink

As a fisheries dude, that's just one of my pet peeves....

Ok, back to the topic at hand - very knowledgable and enjoyable I might add.
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T.K. Paker