Smalma,

I suspect that the "maximize economic..." language is not referring to MSY/MSH, but is instead referring again to an allocation issue, not a conservation issue...I'll wager what it means is that since sportfishing generates more dollars per fish than commercial fishing, that it ought to be the primary user of the resource.

Again, true, and even admirable...but doesn't contain much in the way of a conservation agenda, which is what I keep hearing the CCA is...a conservation group. It's another "end commercial fishing so we can go catch the fish instead" argument...

Fish on...

Todd