Damn I could really stock up the freezer with that!!!
I wonder how much work it would take to make a sport fishing vessel .... might not be a bad deal!
thank god someone finally undestands that not all commercial fishing is bad!!David said:It's a gillnetter, but not much of a threat to fish down here. The Bristol Bay fishery is very tightly managed and the biggest target are sockeye, I think. Healthy runs of salmon for decades even with gillnetting. They also don't have the issue of selective fisheries up there that we have down here. Better habitat and management. Both things we lack.
Many of us understand that not all Gill netting is bad, It's the way that they are managed that is another story.Fish Boy said:thank god someone finally undestands that not all commercial fishing is bad!!David said:It's a gillnetter, but not much of a threat to fish down here. The Bristol Bay fishery is very tightly managed and the biggest target are sockeye, I think. Healthy runs of salmon for decades even with gillnetting. They also don't have the issue of selective fisheries up there that we have down here. Better habitat and management. Both things we lack.
Sorry got to disagree with both of you. I would think that any gillnet boat fishing in Alaska(though the Bristol Bay is like a terminal fishery the vessel can be fished with other permits/areas) would be a threat to the fisheries in this state as a good percentage of them are a intercept fishery,B.C,Washington, Oregon,and California bound fish.Healthy runs for decades... Bristol Bay has had some very poor runs of fish also.If you do some reading you will see that there is quite a bit of talk in Alaska about selective methods of harvest,things need to change nets don't differentiate between species,yield a low quality product, and ruin the the habitat in a lot of cases.Fish Boy I won't go as far to say all commercial fishing is bad but I will say all nets are. Things need to change there are a lot of different methods that can be used to harvest fish selectively that are very efficient and that yield a far better product that in turn means more money to the fisherman and nets in my opinion are not one of them. :roll:Fish Boy said:thank god someone finally understands that not all commercial fishing is bad!!David said:It's a gillnetter, but not much of a threat to fish down here. The Bristol Bay fishery is very tightly managed and the biggest target are sockeye, I think. Healthy runs of salmon for decades even with gillnetting. They also don't have the issue of selective fisheries up there that we have down here. Better habitat and management. Both things we lack.
AGREE.. clap:Fish Boy said:if people would relize this everyone could work together to get the state to mangage our fisheries better.
. Hopefully those runs up North will stay healthy with the right management.Fish Boy said:in reality we shouldnt be blaming each other we should be blaming canada (sorry if i am biased), for a fact they do catch 60% of our chums, now i think this year we had a predicting at about 1.3 million. for puget sound and hood canal, well do the math on that one and then think aobut it what they do to our silvers, reds and kings.