Originally Posted By: Todd
Anywhere there is a good amount of wild coho around, you will likely kill less by bonking two than by releasing five.

Fish on...

P.S. This only applies in the salt and in the lower reaches of rivers where the coho are ocean fresh...once they harden up a bit they release just as well as any other fresh water hardened salmonid.

Todd


+100.

The math goes like this....

If the release mortality rate equals the encounter rate (the statistical likelihood of catching a wild fish) then it's a wash. The same number of wild fish will die regardless of obligatory wild C&R vs obligatory wild retention.

Anytime the encounter rate exceeds the mortality rate, fewer wild fish die by keeping the first two. Fewer of them will die.

Only when the encounter rate falls below the mortailty rate can a legitimate case be made for mandating non-retention of wild fish.
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