Originally Posted By: Carcassman
So WDFW can stop doing all the steelhead monitoring, and salmon monitoring? That would save a whole lot of money, so they could use it elsewhere.

I would agree about the greater than 120' if the rockfish did not need the shallower water as key habitat. Or, if the rockfish need some resource from the <120 to provide some key element like food.

We tend to take very narrow looks at species needs instead of dealing with the ecosystem they live in.

Personally, if humans did not harvest a resource 500 years ago it should be left alone. That would probably do wonders for any number of top of the food chain resources we would still harvest.


Since rockfish cannot be retained and there is minimal barotrauma mortality above 120 feet AND with the emphasis on the use of descender devices any impact related to incidental hooking should be within any established impact.

Your 500 year ago exemption seems to be giving tribes a free pass to continue harvest of ESA listed fish.
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