Smalma, I get what you're saying. It's kind of like the scam they ran in "Office Space"...shave a penny here and there off enough transactions and pretty soon you have ton of money.

OK so 7K rockfish were encountered by salmon fisherman in '07, but what does that say about salmon fishing's impact on NOAA's stocks of concern (bocaccio, yelloweye and canary)?

Even if they were abundant, the chances of a salmon fisherman running into one are so slim simply because of their preference for very deep water. I mean, I'm sure it happens from time to time (esp in the ocean), but it seems to me shutting down salmon fishing in a certain area would have almost no impact because the contacts are already so low.

FN - love that video. I actually have started to catch blacks with some regularity while ling fishing past couple years. Before that, never.

I'd heard the RCAs put in place up in Canada have had no positive results. What about the MPAs they put in place in CA? Given those are coastal I don't think there's going to be much correlation there. The BC ones are probably much more relevent.