[hammer4reel]

Your conclusions are based on portions of their data
Which anyone spending 5 minutes on the water knows isn’t accurate

They do trawl studies where the operator tells them they will never find the results they are looking for
Then act as though it’s accurate
They have no idea the actual mortality of our releases
No actual data except when observers are in the commercial boats ( and I’m told most time never even leave the cabin ) to actual discards

They estimate everything
Even actual landings are allowed to be off 10%

Then throw in all the bicatch while commercial are fishing for other species etc

So IMO there really isn’t accurate info

As far as who to believe
Commercial guys are actually on the water 300 plus days a year . Seeing what’s coming up in the nets
Your charts are based off bean counters who probably couldn’t tell you how to get to the ocean ,
That’s why they have failed at every fishery there is .

Insanity is you now thinking their way of managing the resources from their charts will get any better