Short Fluke Mortality Rate?

[dales529]

I have seen posts on here on short fluke " floating away dead" or comments on "Gut hooked" fluke that will die eventually, NOAA has it in their data base of a 10% mortality rate that hurts our regulations which suck anyway and I believe its 1 % or less. .

Am I missing something????? I fish mainly charter boats and private but do Fluke on head boats and 99% of all shorts I see released swim away so ferociously its not funny. Granted a few hooked by once in awhile fisher
people may be gut hooked but before we add to an already bad data system please explain why those who post this mortality rate have this opinion?

Most trips for us have been anywhere from 6 to 30 Keepers with 25 to 100 + shorts all released to live another day. I have been on at least 6 to 10 trips with zero mortality rate on shorts / YES ZERO mortality Rate. WTF with adding to NOAA Bad science

I personally think this is an "Old School" of thought before bucktails and bait rigs of today but sorry not a believer in the Short KILL