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Thanks for that excellent and enlightening reply capt. Jason..
So its actually making them money catching and selling Whiting the size of Smelt??.. Scary to say the least.. However there might be a tiny cause for optimism.. maybe.. If there are marketable numbers of those small Whiting around, there must be some breeders as well... Maybe if the commercial pressure on them eased up for a few years.... I know, dreaming...... bob