And do not forget the efforts to provide and encourage use of descender devices in both the deep water ling and halibut fisheries.

I will be reading the draft to see if their MPA/RCA language includes any of the informal fishing community input regarding Sunset provisions tied to several conditions including (but not limited to):

1. Recovery to a specific level which may be ESA delisting - it goes away.
2. Population analysis from each MPA/RCA compared to adjacent areas to see if there is a measurable positive impact. If not - it goes away.
3. Failure to perform the required analysis - it goes away.
4. Failure to achieve recovery within a specified period - it goes away (as being indicative that the species is unrecoverable or that the MPA/RCA is not a meaningful tool).

In short, insofar as this plan recommends using MPAs/RCAs it should also include criteria leading to their elimination - rather than rockfish recovery becoming the rallying cry leading to the establishment of permanent MPAs/RCAs - in addition to the areas already off limits by the 120 foot rule.