Reducing Recreational Mortality

[shresearchdude]

I'm a bit skeptical about this one... remember I'm just passing this on...
The local?(to Raritan Bay?) Commercial Hook/Line fisherman and a professor from FDU presented the following at the Mid Atlantic Fisheries Council Meeting yesterday.

What they were trying to propose to the council is that by having Recreational fisherman only use Larger hooks then the mortality figures shrink and then everyone can keep more fish. There were comments from the Council, including Johh McMurray that is/was? a charter guy about how Recreational fisherman are there for the experience not just to harvest fish.

http://static1.squarespace.com/stati...er+Bycatch.pdf


and yes there were many variables not measured or addressed. They claim that they will do a similar study with "wide gap" and "circle" hooks if they get funding.
This could also backfire for them considering the statistics that they provided.

remember this is just part of my personal point of view....