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Originally Posted by NoLimit
It would seem that there should be a technology to do a couple things:
1) greatly reduce the cost and work in tagging fluke to get all released fish tagged. This would give us absolute reliable info
2) determine exactly if 17" males do just die and never make it to a plate
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!) A. I would have to believe that if an attempt were made to have everyone tag all fluke released there would indeed be a higher mortality rate. As it would require the fish to be out of the water longer to be tagged by inexperienced taggers.
B. Someone has to pay for the tags and the salaries of the people that record the info from the tags. (Someone also has to pay for the little goldfish patch they send with the Recapture letter also)
2) A. Many of those 17" released fish, do, in fact, make it to the plate, via Commercial nets
B. Counting fish in the ocean is NEVER going to be exact!
