Originally Posted By: AuntyM
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Regarding emergency closures, they are common to commercial fishing. You may not be familiar with them because you don't commercially fish; otherwise you most likely would. A long time ago I worked in salmon harvest management and also saw tribal fisheries subjected to emergency closures with some regularity.


I'm beginning to think emergency openers might be a better way to manage, even for sporties. At least on the Columbia.


That's probably a better way of managing significantly marginalized stocks....