Two commercial shrimp fisheries opened this week in Prince William Sound.
Fishermen using pot gear are going after spot shrimp, also known as spot prawns. The quota is 66,300 pounds.
Trawl vessels are targeting sidestripe shrimp, with a quota of 112,950 pounds.
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Incidental catches and trawl fisheries. Not good for the ecosystem. Proven over and over again. Why we continue to allow that type of fishery is beyond me.
PWS will be trashed. You'd think we would know better by now. I've been fishing the Sound since I was kid.
Trawling is like fishing with dynamite.
What takes more shellfish in the Sound - the commercial shrimpers or the sea otters?
So...sea otters justify PWS trawling?
aren't there only one or two boats that participate in the trawl fishery i,ve seined in the sound for ten years and there is only one or two boats i've seen trawling.
The trawl fishery is small and has been going on for years and years. Additionally, it's a fishery on sidestripe shrimp, not the spots that the sport fishery catches.
You've been fishing the sound for ten years and since you were a kid obviously not in the winter. There's plenty of trawling going on inside your beloved sound.
Here on deckboss, trolling reigns supreme.
"ten years" and "kid" are two different people. Me, the "kid" says they're trashing it. Don't get confused so easily.
i'm 'ten years' and your right i'm not on the water inthe winter. so how many boats are trawling in the sound?
Yes, here on deckboss trolling does reign supreme. Only here though.
Does the Department use the same "scientific" model to estimate spot shrimp biomass as they use to estimate Sitka herring biomass?
Cause they have been erring on the estimates of herring biomass.
Cause in the 1980s before the oil spill the spot shrimp population crashed in PWS from over fishing from commercial fishing, where the models used by the department stated that there was no way to over fish the spot shrimp fishery, cause that was what the model said...
But we did. And it took 20 years to rebuild the stock...
Of course we won't get fooled again... Oh no, no no no...
And in other unrelated news, the Sitka Sound Herring roe fishery failed to ...
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