Somebody has to catch them, or collect them. We can't do it (the lions share) with our current allocated impacts. So the potential allocation shift you mention is inevitable (if reducing hatchery spawner's is a goal). Putting these proposed fisheries below other harvesters has the same affect on sport mortality as cutting production does. Coupled with production reductions (what's your function...) it's a double whammy.

I half way wonder if this will be the catalyst to convert all fisheries to more selective methods? Mortality rates for everyone above these fisheries is going to be substantially increased with less hatchery fish in the mix. We're only 50% of the pie, and short of everyone getting on board we are all pissin in the wind. Nothing gets better. You know what they say, sheet rolls down river!