Folks need to be very aware of this fact...seasons on the LCR are set by mortality rates on the wild fish...no matter how they are killed, they will be killed, period.

Make a fishery more selective, and they will kill the same amount of wild fish...but the more selective they get, the more hatchery fish they'll kill while doing it.

I'm generally a fan of selective fisheries, when appropriate...but in a set of fisheries like those on the LCR, where seasons and exploitation rates are set by ESA fish mortalities, the only thing "more selective commercial fisheries" will accomplish is less hatchery fish for sporties...the same amount of wild fish will die.

That's why when some trumpet this type of development as some sort of "recovery tool" for wild fish, they are either lying, or woefully ignorant of how LCR fisheries work.

Fish on...

Todd
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