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Originally Posted by stripersnipr
Anybody that has ever worked on or fished in a draggers wake has seen the devastation that floats behind it. I've never considered the issue of how much market sized fish thats caught being as serious as the issue of bycatch killed. If that bycatch survived to spawn I dont think our fisheries would be anywhere near the state of devastation it's now in.
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Bycatch is a big issue, as is regulatory discards. Reducing regulatory discards will be discussed at this meeting, but I don't expect that the brader bycatch issue will be discussed. FWIW, the newly reenacted M/S bill does focus on the bycatch issue and I would expect the federal councils to be pursuing that issue in the not-too-distant future. What would you suggest to reduce regulatory discards?