Originally Posted By: Smalma
FNP -
When it comes to fisheries limited by ESA impacts are not the recreational fisheries also managed down to the last fish/impact?

In fact here in Washington many of our recreational fisheries are happening before the commerical fisheries. Shouldn't your issue #5 also apply to the recreational fisheries?

To have any credibility what is good for the goose should be good for the gander.

Tight lines
Curt


CCA's position on this pivots on Selectability. Gill nets, and to a lesser extent, tangle nets, retain everything unlucky enough to be trapped in the mesh. Barbless single hooks are presently the best method of live releasing a wild fish, or of making the decision to kill a hatchery plant. Therefore, recreational fishing provides the best chance of pursuing management goals.

Wild fish trapped in a gill net are dead, whether you call them incidental catch, or gravy. They are out of the gene pool forever. I find this (#5) to be a fair position on promoting selective harvest.