There was once a huge market harvest of deer, elk, ducks, pigeons, grouse, etc. There used to be commercial trout fisheries and probably walleye, perch, and bass. Large Striped Bass commercial fisheries cut way back. Probably used to be big Atlantic Salmon fisheries. The history has been to replace commercial with recreational harvest once the rec side gains fiscal power.

I am looking further down the road than the next couple of seasons. If we are going to have meaningful recreational fisheries on fish then there is going to have to be a significant reduction in commercial harvest. Not just harvest of the target species but harvest of the forage fish that feed those species.