[niko]

the speaker at the sbcba meeting last night did a presentation on post release cod mortality using acoustic tagging. a couple of interesting points were that only 20% of the fish released didn't survive as opposed to the 50% mortality rate noaa uses as a baseline. the other thing is that most of the fish that didn't make it were caught on jigs with treble hooks. so swap out those big ass trebles for single hooks. one other thing that came up is that the whole idea of site fidelity, staying in the same area for extended periods of time, seems to be somewhat inaccurate. some fish are hanging around spots for weeks and others are constantly traveling all over