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Originally Posted by JohnR
One fish for recs is estimated between 25% and 31% reduction
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I know they have to make an estimate but how the hell do they know that, is there good science to back it up? I agree something has to be done but is that 25%-31% a good estimate.
I can see that for Mass they know what the comm % reduction is because of trip logs and reporting system but from a Rec perspective I just don't see how they know how many fish are being kept by
Recs and what a reduction from 2 to 1 does to a number they don't actually know. It obviously will decrease the total catch but how can they assign that %.
It's better than nothing but I just get nervousness when they toss out numbers on things they can't account for.
I'd also be interested on what the difference is from rec and com dead discards are. I wonder if there is a difference between mortality of Rec release versus com release based off of gear, live vs artificial, experience, single or circle hook vs treble, length of fight, light vs heavy etc.
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