Blade, grow up.
#1) I advocate a floss fishery when the stocks permit AND when there is retention for socs on the fraser. I do not advocate C&R of socs as a by product of a spring floss fishery.
#2) by catches are a part of any fishery. you notice that the albion test fisheries have netted sturgeon. Both set nets and drift nets will catch sturgeon possibly even birds on rare occasions (I cant say for sure, but it sounds like you know). So whats worse: a sturgeon or Thompsn coho/steelhead that has run into a set net thats checked once a day or that same fish that has just run into a drift net that is checked every drift.
I cant speak for native fishermen, but being involved in the commercial industry at one point myself, I can tell you we made a significant effort to release steelhead etc and the sooner we found them in the net. Simple fact is that the set nets are monitored like a drift net so release from a set net would be far less successful. This would particularly be true for sturgeon which are a tough fish and if found quick enuff will recover from a net.
Thats just my opinion based on some experience from within the industry....what knowledge do you have to sit on your high horse and attack me???
#1) by selling bouncing betties outside of retention, you support the flossing industry (whether you realize or not)......sockeyes have also been caught by way of 'bar fishing', so who don't you protest them too.
#2) you're referring to 'incidental catch' which in many cases under test fisheries, have been documented and noted in their data bank to indicate the kill rate percentage of their methods.... that's how they come up with net regulations and size that they pass on to commercial fishermen. DO you think FN do the same thing?
#3) ooh very admiral, to release a steelhead that's been struggling in the nets for a while (notice i didn't specify a lapse time). I wonder what the survival rate is for that? besides, if a driftnet is monitored like a set net... how is the release from a set net, less successful? now who's the my friend wipe? also any fish caught by its gills has a minimal chance of survival
as far as experience goes, i was a qc and fish inspector for a major seafood storage/distributor. every once in awhile, i would work side by side with a division of DFO that went undercover to confiscate illegally attained fish. i saw first hand how they documented and how they reallocated these fish. i've learned more than you realize, from the four years that i worked with them. the company i worked for helped process and store those fish.
tell you what, i'll get off my high horse and stop attacking you, if you get off your high morals and stop whining about everybody else.
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