"impeccable stats"??.....really? Personally, I'd like to know more.....like was this a study to "prove" that C&R works? If so, I suspect that many special considerations were employed. Perhaps, barbless, baitless, netless, gloveless, etc???

Does it seem like an oddly high post-spawn survival rate...even for fish who are never caught? From what I've seen posted here previously, it is.

Does the implication that all the fish caught were tracked, hence the precise percentage seem reasonable? ..... hmmmmm, just how does one accomplish that?

I'm an advocate of C&R, and a believer that it promotes healthier runs, but I'm skeptical concerning the accuracy of this data.