Originally Posted By: Chip Goodhue
I'm puzzled......since smolts generally occupy the upper water column and favored tackle for chum is a small herring or hootchie, how will this reduce interactions? Perhaps merely because of the general lack of effort on chum by boat bound fishers?

The direct MSF of blackmouth is what seems to have govern the closure not fishing for chum.
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