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Originally Posted by PaulS
The difference is you are blaming the recreational fishermen without taking into account the % of each sector. If recreational fishermen are 99% of fisherman then they should be killing 99% of the fish.
Make it a game fish and a some of the problems are solved. Not all the problems but some of them.
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O.K. here we go, I'm going to try and dress each of these messages separately.
Making it a gamefish does nothing but eliminate the commercial catch, which is, according to the stock assessment (which is where that chart comes from) is 10%. The fish belong to everyone, not just the guys who pick up a rod and go fishing. The commercial sector catches the fish for the rest of the country that doesn't fish. Fact is that by eliminating the commercial sector you are reducing mortality by 10% while doing nothing to address the other 90%.
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