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by ryandrake 1193 days ago
The article doesn't seem to mention whether they are only canceling the season for big time commercial fishing or for all fishing altogether. I suspect it's the latter. Too bad that the government can't seem to grasp the concepts of scale and profit motive. The wildlife populations are getting wrecked from large scale fishing operations mass-scraping the sea clean, not from Joe Sixpack dipping their rod in the ocean on the weekend and hoping to come home with one or two fish.
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bcbrown 1193 days ago
The ratio of commercial:recreational quoatas depend on the numeric value for the season, but at lower quotas the ratio skews heavily recreational. So when the run is substantial, commercial fisheries can fish, but when the run is marginal, more of the quota is recreational:

Allowable non-treaty ocean harvest (thousands of fish)

  Coho:    C  R
  0–300    25 75
  >300     60 40
  Chinook: 
  0–100    50 50
  >100–150 60 40
  >150     70 30
Source: Page 10 of https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2022-10/2022-Fed-Reg-Bookle...
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kposehn 1193 days ago
Sport Fishing can put a huge amount of pressure on stocks too. During the salmon season there are hundred of boats off Stinson Beach (NW of the golden gate) fishing, same for Pacifica and Half Moon Bay. For every commercial boat there are many, many smaller boats. It all adds up.
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