My testimony will be against the selective fishery rules.

If the stocks are healthy, selective gear rules are not needed, a small amount of mortality is not an issue and the moratorium should not even be considered. If the numbers are so depressed that there is no harvestable excess it is more reasonable to prohibit all fisheries that target the wild fish.

The imposition of a harvest moratorium for conservation reasons should by default include a moratorium on all fisheries that target those stocks requiring such essential conservation concern.

Any action to create C&R fisheries or other special fisheries should be proposed and discussed through normal rule making process rather than indirectly through a harvest moratorium on harvestable stocks.