Got this as a PM, but I thought it would be constructive to post my reply for everyone to see.

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Set a tentative non-treaty gillnet season based on pre-planned fishing days, BUT prosecuting each day of fishing is predicated on a full accounting of the total wild harvest/impact at the end of the previous day of fishing. If the allowable harvest/impact has been consumed..... GAME OVER!


How does each day get accounted for?


Each participating gillnetter MUST already sign up for the fishery before it actually starts, and one of the stipulations is that they must agree to "quick reporting" of their catch and harvest. Failure to sign up and report is an automatic forfeiture of participation.

It's simply a matter of summarizing the collective data from each participant at the end of each fishing day. What..... 20-25 boats fishing.... should take a whopping 10-15 minutes to enter the catch data on an Excel spreadsheet. Excel automatically figures out 45% chinook impact for every chinook encountered. Push the "TOTAL" function key at the bottom of each column for each stock (hatch vs wild for each species) one second for each column.... and VOILA!.... total gillnet exploitation in real time. (Actually you can ignore those last few seconds as the spreadsheet can already be designed to total those columns automatically).

It ain't rocket science. The mechanism and infrastructure is already in place to get an instantaneous answer. It's just a matter of making a commitment to do something with the data instead of having it rot in the books until the next NOF meeting in 2010!

WHO'S IN?

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