Saxe Point
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Option B obvioulsy looks more appealing from an anglers perspective, but with a 1 fish/day limit I worry people will be literally throwing back a lot of perfectly good fish to find "a keeper"
Bottomfish will take a shitkicking if option A is chosen, and even during the 1/day restriction last year I noticed more guests wanted to target them.
Is commercial fishing even a profitable thing these days? Seems like a zero-sum game aside from the slaughter of course.
I think the rec limits for salmon are too generous. The fact that each licence holder can kill 30 chinooks a year is crazy!
"But Im the only fisherman in my family and my children refuse to eat anything but salmon!"
If somehow 30 chinooks wouldnt feed a normal family for atleast a year, you could always take them with you, let them experience something new and unique to our area, and if theyre not old enough to come fishing then theyre probably not eating that much salmon to begin with.
Everybody has to make concessions if we are serious about the preservation of these fish!
I agree with everything you say, including the concessions. But I think we need to take a much broader perspective and approach to this problem. See my post just a few before yours.