04-01-2006, 08:28 PM
Hi gvanzant,
Went on one of the DFG trips on the Premier and 99% of fish were returned to the water unharmed from 250+ depths even after being weighed, measured and recorded! The guy doing the deflating was good and the system is viable.
A buddy broght his bladder deflator kit the next rockfishing trip and tons of fish got the 'treatment'. Problem with my buddy was...... that he was so busy saving fish, he had little time to fish himself
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If people really wanted to walk the walk concerning contrdicting the rockfish stock mis-information I believe is prevelant... for one thing ... they could record the fsh sucessfully returned safely to the water with the deflator, showing we have even bigger stocks and adding further overwhelming numbers to actual fish stocks.
But who on any boat is gonna take the effort to do the deflation of fish we know good and well would survive with proper care!?! Let's see all the hands raised! [laugh]
Not saying you yourself don't stop fishing once you've caught that one salmon grouper........ when you don't have a deflator. I don't .... but should ..as most anglers ought.
In the end ... the DFG guy on our trip recorded tons of fish, as did TubeN2's, being caught. I'm wondering if the raw data gets 'lost' or 'gets eaten by the dog' before it gets crunched. [
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JapanRon
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Went on one of the DFG trips on the Premier and 99% of fish were returned to the water unharmed from 250+ depths even after being weighed, measured and recorded! The guy doing the deflating was good and the system is viable.
A buddy broght his bladder deflator kit the next rockfishing trip and tons of fish got the 'treatment'. Problem with my buddy was...... that he was so busy saving fish, he had little time to fish himself![
] If people really wanted to walk the walk concerning contrdicting the rockfish stock mis-information I believe is prevelant... for one thing ... they could record the fsh sucessfully returned safely to the water with the deflator, showing we have even bigger stocks and adding further overwhelming numbers to actual fish stocks.
But who on any boat is gonna take the effort to do the deflation of fish we know good and well would survive with proper care!?! Let's see all the hands raised! [laugh]
Not saying you yourself don't stop fishing once you've caught that one salmon grouper........ when you don't have a deflator. I don't .... but should ..as most anglers ought.
In the end ... the DFG guy on our trip recorded tons of fish, as did TubeN2's, being caught. I'm wondering if the raw data gets 'lost' or 'gets eaten by the dog' before it gets crunched. [
] JapanRon
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