It will be interesting to see how this looks 5 yrs from now. I feel Todd hits the nail, as this won't recover a single fish (as the impacts will still be used by whoever is allowed to take fish out of the water). However, SBD might have the real point ... those impacts might not be awarded to fisheries at all. I mean didn't we get Canada to lay off a bit on the last US/Canada treaty, but those impacts didn't go to fisheries at all, did they?

And the other aspect of this is, will hatchery production have to go down?...aren't part of the HSRG recommendations that hatchery fish spawning numbers need to go down, and how effective are sport fisheries at taking all the available hatchery fish? I realize these questions are mostly hypothetical, & it would be nice to simply get rid of the nets, but I always worry about the law of unintended consequences. When fighting for more fish in your boat than the other guys' boat....I'm just wary of what I can't think of is all. Interesting indeed.