Originally Posted By: Todd
Originally Posted By: slabhunter
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Development of viable fishing gear ...


Hmmm, so today's commercial gear is not viable on the mainstem Columbia River?







Not as viable as what they're hoping to do...which is kill the same amount of wild fish while harvesting three, four, or ten times as many hatchery fish...sportfishing will be so fukked if this actually works.

Fish on...

Todd


Hey Todd, I finally get this.
How about if the other rules change and total harvest is based not on ESA limits but other harvest limits such as total numbers or pounds of fish caught.. More ESA survival? and "better" allocation of hatchery fish?

Seems to me that the problem is not selective fishing but the method of allocation.