Hohman,

I think this is how WDFW sees it (for better or worse):

The number of days open to gillnetters is small compared to the number of days the bay is open to the sporties. When allocations are figured for each group, a certain percentage of wild fish are figured in to the total catch. They deem a small harvest of wild fish as acceptable. The question then becomes.....who gets them?

Because the sporties have a more liberal season and have the ability to fish selectively, they reserve the incidental take of wild fish for the commercial boys.

Yes, there are all kinds of valid arguments against this aproach by WDFW but that's the way it is for now.

Just my take on it. Also have a biologist friend who concurs that this is how it's being done right now.