Want big fish-- go to Alaska...................

[Cuba Libre]

http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?p=4632154#post4632154

 

[Seafever]

They're making a very good case for an Alaska trip.....................

 

[Captain PartyMarty]

I wonder how old that rockfish is! amazing fish!

 

[007]

http://www.psmfc.org/habitat/fish_lifespan.pdf

 

[Sharphooks]

Not to be Captain Wetblanket or anything, but I get a gag-response every time I see somebody holding a big yelloweye or shortraker like that---promoting the culling of those huge rockfish is obscene.

I for one support and applaud all the RCA's in BC waters instituted by the managers. It's a matter of time before Alaska does the same thing---those fish can't take that kind of Lodge-pressure

I've read that otolith aging studies peg those big buoy-kegs at 140 - 150 years old

Beating up on those breeders is like taking a chain-saw to a California Redwood forest.

 

[Cuba Libre]

Agree partly Sharphooks--- but I dont think there is a hope that a big rockfish like that could be recompressed. Its the same here everytime we get a rockie in over one atmosphere.

 

[OldBlackDog]

Commercial fleet lets them all go, right..

 

[JAC]

I would like to think sport fisherman care a lot more about conservation then the commercial guys.

 

[Red Monster]

I've been there!