Originally Posted By: Sol Duc
Originally Posted By: Lucky Louie

Looking at Alaskan halibut by-catch wastes in recent years, the grand total of the last year I could find was 5815 MT=12,819,880 pounds of halibut by-catch wasted in Alaskan waters compared to Washington state’s direct sport halibut fishery gets app. 110.3 metric tons= 243,167 lbs allocation for the year 2017.

Something is wrong with that picture.

Apple's to Orange's.

That was just an example of commercial fisheries extreme waste of halibut resource compared to Washington state sport direct halibut fishery.

Using apples to apples there really is something wrong with that picture as well, when 2A and 2B are the only areas with a survey increase , but we get a poor allocation increase compared to other areas.

Stock assessment survey Allocation (plus or minus from 2010)

Area 2A survey increase 109%------+0.05 allocation increase
Area 2B survey increase 3%---------+0.15 allocation increase

Area 2c-4 decrease -5% to-36% (These areas are all thrown together so we can’t give specific values, but we know they are all (minus) )

Allocation (+/-)

Area 2C -2.07
Area 3A -5.63
Area 3B -2.38
Area 4A +0.08
Area 4B +0.02
Area4CDE +0.14
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