Selective fisheries are a great conservation tool when they are used and work. The WB folks can talk about some pretty bad examples of failures of them.

But, and it has been alluded to here, when you have two competing fisheries the advantages and more harvest goes to those who select. In a simple calculation, a 5% mortality on released fish means you can encounter twenty times as many of the protected fish which allows significantly more harvest of the target. Conversely, this means that if one chooses to fish non-selectively you end up with less fish.

Since the choice of how we fish is a choice, then we should accept the consequences. The recs love marine mixed stock fisheries. OK, Give up the rivers. Gillnetters love non-selective. Catch less. Make a choice, accept the result.