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Originally Posted by j mo
What are the regs for that? If you do catch a yellow or halibut while making bait? Are you supposed to release? What if you cant, I once foul hooked a YT at blacks in the gill. Zero chance of survival.... Can you keep bycatch in that case?
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good question. Legally I don't think you could keep it, regardless of its potential to survive...
I'm would assume you're supossed to cut the line immediately, but I doubt there are any rules or regulations that have been written up to address such a case.
Legally I don't think anyone could prove anything in regards to this kind of situation.
This is one of the biggest reasons why I'm pissed off about the Scripps area being closed.
It doesn't make any sense to close the area to pelagics but leave it open to coastal pelagics.
This is just another example of how the whole MLPA process was flawed, biased, and twisted by the enviros.
The stupid enviros don't even know the difference between what making bait and catching fish looks like!
Its just stupid.