Parker, you're off base. Your language and tone will basically get you nowhere with most fishermen. Your black and white view of this issue makes it seem to me you don't care about the facts. There are not just 4 or 5 sixgills in Puget Sound. I am a fisherman, and a diver, and a conservationist. I brought my shark fishing skills with me from the Gulf of Mexico a few years back (I'm not one of the pier fishermen). Northwesterners just basically don't know what a Californian or a Texan, or a Floridan knows about shark fishing. In Puget Sound, we don't launch window sash weights from a black powder cannon, tied to a cable hook with with a whole bonita the size of a salmon, to get it over the breakers to the tigers. I hit on big sharks in puget sound from the first time I tried for them, with gear I have never heard of being used in Puget Sound (not the cannon). There is some unknown number of sixgills in Puget Sound numbering many, many more than 4 or 5. I have landed sixgills in the size class same as caught at the pier in the last few weeks, not near that location. The state record is around 220 pounds, and I thought, just for grins, I would maybe submit one to make "the book" (most are substantially bigger). I guess I won't now. My worst fear is what just happened--somebody besides me very pubically figured out how to catch these fish, and now we have a zero limit. Like you, I believe it's the only option to avoid a targeted fishery that would indeed pose a severe conservation risk for this long-lived species. They are illegal to take in BC, so that offers a refuge, even before this legislation. The real tragedy is: Here's a fish that, up until this week, you could catch and keep 15 (can you imagine 3000 pounds of meat?)--a species that could never in a biologist's wildest imagination withstand a tenth of that harvest pressure under any kind of targeted fishery. Now, all of a sudden there's an emergency to save this species and fishermen are SOL. It's rockfish all over. What happened to science? A little population work with limits that are conservative in favor of the resource to begin with (every biologist knows about the vulnerability of sharks)--in place of wild swings in policy and crises management necessary because somebody in authority was asleep at the wheel. I have only ever killed one sixgill. I wanted to eat it and it was good. This is the third largest carniverous shark in the world, it's not even sexually mature until about 12 feet, and it undoubetedly needs protection. What it doesn't need, Parker, is some wingnut to drive a wedge between fishermen and divers, who both basically both want fish in a deteriorating universe.