https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/A...cial-and-personal-fishing-566685751.htmlLike all reporters these days the terms they use are extremely vague. There are "sport," "subsistence," "commercial," and possibly "personal use" seasons on rockfish. Commercial and personal use are two categories that can go. I strongly question how you can get conservative management practices on a commercial fishery on fish that are often ancient and always old when caught commercially. They are frequently over 100 years old.
Alaska bans rockfish from commercial and personal fishing
By Associated Press | Posted: Fri 6:14 AM, Jan 03, 2020
SITKA, Alaska - The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has announced a full-year closure of both commercial and personal fishing of two varieties of rockfish.
The Daily Sitka Sentinel reported the moratorium is the result of a 60% decrease in rockfish biomass since assessments began in 1994.
The department says demersal shelf rockfish and yelloweye rockfish fisheries in southeast Alaska are included in the ban.
Officials say the rockfish decrease occurred despite conservative management practices over the past decade.
The department encourages personal-use fishermen to use rockfish deepwater release devices to decrease the mortality rate of yelloweye while fishing for other species.
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