Another note...

I wish people would stop using the term "selective" as if it's something new, or different...

Virtually every kind of fishing gear is "selective"...dynamite is selective, if you throw back all the dead stuff you don't want...as are gillnets, purse seines, and hook and line angling.

The part that is important is to what degree they are selective...what is the relative release mortality of the gear you are looking at?

Gillnets are selective...but to the tune of killing 30 or 40 percent of the wild fish that are released.

Purse seines are selective...but to a hereforeto unknown release mortality, but most assuredly less than gillnets. They will, however, have an associated release mortality, EVERY type of fishing does...if you handle fish you want to release, some will die...period.

Calling gillnets "non-selective" and purse seines "selective" is not only irrelevant, but it's not true, either.

Fish on...

Todd