Originally Posted By: Todd
I didn't "re-define" selective...I told you what it means...which is really not much. Selective in this context means you keep the hatchery fish, release the wild fish and non-target species.

You can do that with anything, not just a purse seine...just so happens that purse seines are better at it. Calling a gillnet or a tangle net "non-selective" is flat out incorrect...the tool is not selective or non-selective, the policy of a particular fishery is.

If there's a wide open fishery where everything in the net is to be retained, guess what kind of fishery it is, even if you use a purse seine? It's a non-selective fishery...with a purse seine.

Fish on...

Todd


Toddster, I have to disagree with you on this one. Gill nets kill whatever they snag. The tool is non selective. Gill nets are non selective. It's kinda almost part of the definition of gillnets. They snag the gills of whatever swims into them and then they drown and die. Then we eat them.
This is my perspective as a former gill netter.
Tangle nets may be better if carefully attended, but fish drown if the nets are not tended very carefully. Just a different size mesh on the nets.