Just to get back to the economic argument AGAINST the NT gill net fishery in GH...

The slide present to the commission showed an average ex-vessel value of about 92K (in 2013 dollars) for active 20-30 boats. Let's call it roughly 90K spread over 20-30 participants. That's an average of roughly $3000-4500 for each boat. In other words, it's largely a hobby fishery.

In a January 2012 letter, Fish Program Director Jim Scott provided the following figures for the period 2005-2011.

Hatchery production for the fishery: $211,821
Management to plan/prosecute the fishery: $31,224
Enforcement: $9,684
Ex-vessel value: $80,194

That's over 1/4 million that the state spends in order to conduct a fishery worth 80K… over three dollars spent for every dollar the fishery returns.

Just a bit of food for thought.
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