[Broad Bill]

I've been advocating for a slot for years, the 1" slot between 17" and 18" completely missed the mark of why you use a slot for the benefit of the fishery. Slot the last two years should have been somewhere in the range of 15"-17" or 15.5"-17.5" initially. That would have taken pressure off the big breeders and started the process of once again harvesting younger age class fish which are being killed anyway by commercial operations or succumbing to 25% natural mortality rates. Then you assess the stock and decide where to go from there. But this onslaught of the primary spawning stock needs to stop along with the consequential damage it causes and they need to close the season to commercial dragging during the spawn. The stock would rebound to new highs within 3-5 years.