[/quote] Guess you should have READ the article.



Selective harvest methods have been recommended by MANY bios and a few managers as one step that is under utilized to protect wild/native runs. That would include most of the members of the Hatchery Scientific Review Group.

All the added BS by the "hate CCA" crowd is based on assumptions.

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I did read the article and guess you should should of also.. but ill just use your quote since it was the basis of my orginial comment..

i'll repeat and use short statements.

A) The government has no money.

B) 1.9 million is being taken out the funds used to pay for hatcheries and instead being used to research commercial fishing techniques in the CR.

seems pretty striaght forward... the DFW's are spending money that could go to other things (like hatcheries) to research somthing for a user group that contrbiutes the LEAST amount of revenue or total amount of USERS to those DFW's.

let me expand.. please TRY to read it all before you hit relpy to tell me how stupid i am.


First of all dont you think that the best Selective harvest method would be to recommended a elimination of non-selective net meathods and instead use, the already proven most selective- troll meathods- in-order to protect wild/native runs. But that would increase the potentail costs of the commerical CR activity. Since thats not acceptable to that group the government is using hatchery funding to research "alternate meathods" that keep costs and time commitment low for commericals. i call that a demostration of political power..

But this has many layers..

commerical fishing has been researching their own techniques for over 100 years. They know what works and what does not and what by-catch rates are (since say what you will but a net filled with by-catch is worth less then a net filled with the target species). The industry knows by-catch rates.. just ask them and save the 1.9 mill

SOO..Why in the world are by-catch rates being, again, researched?

I bet you could spend a few hundred bucks and ask the offshore trollers what their hatchery to native rates are, AND since we do have the data for hook caught mortaility vs net caught mortaility, it seems the 1.9 million from the hathcery fund could be saved and we could switch to already proven "more selective meathod"..

All the BS from the "i dont think about anything i just post" crowd really just rely on thier own ignorance and un-yeilding devotion to a club.
big words, scary thoughts, not your average mindless fundrasing banquet discussion huh?

joshua.

now please tell my why i am stupid..