During the meeting it was acknowledged by Staff that the ongoing commercial netting of rockfish in the north sound is documented by fish tickets which identify "rockfish" and a quantity but that there is no count by species. I would think that WDFW could have one of their fish checkers at the dock looking at commercial offloads.

Also, in the draft plan at para 2.5.1 it is acknowledged that catch estimates for commercial fisheries do not include estimates for rockfish encountered during commercial fishing operations and released at sea. "No monitoring program exists with which to estimate the magnitude of this release rate. The amount of this release is thought to be low, but the mortality rate high (Palsson et al 2009)"


No on the water monitoring and no at the delivery point inspections. Just a round number of "rockfish" sold to the buyer.
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