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Originally posted by Fishingjunky15:
"FACT: the Commies caught over 8000 springers using smaller net mesh.

FACT: This is 2500-3000 more than their quota allowed.

Neither of those figures is anything close to fact.

The fishery is managed to a quota of impact on the wild fish in the system. That equates to a certain number of wild fish handled, which are assumed to die.

The commericals got a certain portion of the impact, we get the other, the exact numbers escape me at the moment.

During the negotiations earlier this year, it was estimated that the commericals would get about 12,000 fish. They're not close yet, probably around 8500 by my figuring, and then we'll see what they got yesterday.

There is no quota on the fish caught, there is a quota on the impact on the ild fish, and they are not there yet. If the run fools us and is way smaller than prediction, then we have a problem. I don't expect that to happen - there is too much data in the system.
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