Dogfish -
Not sure that going to wild fish retention is saving wild fish.

Let's consider your example and assume is catching only coho that each charter is fishing 12 rods (you suggested 10 to 25 rods) and they are releasing 50 unclipped coho to catch their 24 clipped fish. As talked about earlier with a 20% release mortality 10 of those released would die.

However that boat would have caught 74 coho (24 clipped and 50 unclipped) yielding a clip rate of about 35%. During a fishery with wild retention the boat would land the same 24 coho of which 65% or 15.6 would be unclipped. Yielding a unclipped mortality in the wild retention fishery roughly 150% of that in the mark selective fishery/vessel. When expanded to the overall fleet over a period of time the numbers rapidly become a concern.

Something else to consider with much faster fishing to limit the boat it becomes easier to book a second trip increasing the impacts on the wild fish.

Curt