Originally Posted By: Carcassman
It is WDFW's conservation ethic. It would piss off too many halibuters to have to carefully deal with by catch. This is a get in, get out fishery. The time you spend taking care of a rockfish is time some other guy catches a 'but and gets closer to the allotment.



Well, those halibut guys are already pissed off. grin

Seriously, there were a number of descenders handed out to halibut and ling fishers and using them in conjunction with a downrigger makes for a pretty quick release process.
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