I am not sure what people would like to see done to protect our endangered stocks. Your now talking about adding countless Fraser river Chinook, Sockeye and Coho stocks to the list.
How can we fish for our healthy stocks while not intercepting our endangered ones? This is a huge issue that has been known about since 1970 when they enhanced some rivers and the rivers that were not enhanced with hatchery crashed from over fishing because they shared co migration timing with enhanced stocks.
If you were the department would you close fisheries completely? Give priority to truly selective methods? What if you don't have an enforcement budget to monitor and run these fisheries selective ? do you just close the river/ocean completely? Even with limited openings you may still get some interception of endangered stocks, Is their an acceptable interception rate? so would say no. What about other countries endangered stocks, Columbia river? puget sound?
Sure a beach seine has a low C&R mortality but that when its run by professionals and being monitored. When Joe Blow is running his beach seine and does not care, he pulls it all up on to the beach kills them all . Is their a C&P budget to have 100% compliance and monitored?
What would you do oldbackdog???
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