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Originally posted by Kevin:
Your retention would go to hook mortality and keep the rivers open longer. Rivers open longer means more fishing. And as far as a waste of fish for hook mortality mother nature doesn't waste anything. Some see the fish that is bleeding that you need to release as a waste because its not going to you but instead its going to the river and the nutrients for that system. As far as the indians realistically I would love to see them stop netting but how sheltered is that view?

Tight lines

Kevin
That's a good point. Even though hooking mortality does far less damage to the resource than a single gillnet does, that does raise a point I hadn't considered.