Originally Posted By: Carcassman

While gill nets are not perfect they can be used in a size-selective manner and significantly reduce by catch if the two species are of reasonably different sizes.

Still, it would need to be enforced and users would need 3 or 4 nets for a year rather tan just one.


Enforcement would be much easier if only 1 group was netting. I go to NOF meetings and listen as the "cowboys" complain about having 2 or 3 sizes of nets and then whether it is gill net or tangle nets, there is another choice...stop netting completely.....
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