Will new hooks help reduce by-catch?

[scavengerj]

http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119613&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1

[Huck Finn]

Don't get me started on commercial longline fishermen... it's not a pretty sight when I go off on those low-lives!!!

[slipperybob]

I've always wonder if magnetic hooks will catch more fish. 

[bigredfishing]

Don't get me started on commercial longline fishermen... it's not a pretty sight when I go off on those low-lives!!!

Please do, I'd like to hear it.

[FishingNewEngland]

Do I think it will help? Probably not.

Huck Finn, I'd like to hear your opinion as well.....

[Huck Finn]

Please do, I'd like to hear it.

Worst of all there is this:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/environment/habitats-environment/habitats-oceans-env/declining-fish.html

... but there's also this too.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/13681684

Not only are birds killed by longlines, but there's also turtles, unwanted fish species, and undersize/illegal to keep market fish too.

I remember back in the early 60's when I was in grade school, they taught us that the oceans resources were so vast that they could never be depleted... they just didn't know that never came in 2050. I remember going out to eat with my parents back then and ordering a broiled Swordfish steak (it was my favorite) the steaks were so big back then that they would cover the whole plate and they'd have to put the side dishes on a separate plate... now the steaks I see in the stores are 1/3 or less the size... it makes me sick!!!

I don't eat any kind of commercial seafood anymore, and only CPR fish in saltwater nowadays.

The day will come when all netting and longline fishing will be banned in the worlds oceans... but like everything else, it'll be too late. If they would ban the nets and longlines now and give those commercial boys a rod and reel to see how much damage they could do things would be different in 2050.

I'm too old to see 2050, and I'm d**n glad of it... but I have seen the decline of the Atlantic ocean fishery in the last 50 yrs. with my own eyes and it makes me want to puke and cry at the same time... then I get mad and wanna...

[eyedoktr]

I've always wonder if magnetic hooks will catch more fish. 

steelhead 

[Huck Finn]

Don't get me started on commercial longline fishermen... it's not a pretty sight when I go off on those low-lives!!!

Please do, I'd like to hear it.

Do I think it will help? Probably not.

Huck Finn, I'd like to hear your opinion as well.....

Well, I replied... now what do y'all think?

[bigredfishing]

Well, the long line/commercial industry does have way too much pull with the NMFS (sets limits, quotas).   They do not promote truly sustainable fish limits.  However, the main culprits are the international fishing fleets that work our waters and pay no attention to our limits.  These international fleets are responsible for as much as 90% of the fish harvest of north Atlantic waters...We need enforcement, and we need the NMFS to set quotas that favor Rec. fisherman as much as the commercial long liners.

[Huck Finn]

Well, the long line/commercial industry does have way too much pull with the NMFS (sets limits, quotas).   They do not promote truly sustainable fish limits.  However, the main culprits are the international fishing fleets that work our waters and pay no attention to our limits.  These international fleets are responsible for as much as 90% of the fish harvest of north Atlantic waters...We need enforcement, and we need the NMFS to set quotas that favor Rec. fisherman as much as the commercial long liners.

I'd like to blame it on other nations, but our people are just as bad... it's all about greed! "Let's go out and get them before someone else does!!!"

The commercial fishermen are going to take and take until there isn't anything left to take!

The consumer is almost as bad, as long as there's a big fish left in the ocean... someone will pay to eat it, and a commercial fisherman will go out and try to catch it... legally or not!

The quotas and limits aren't working, that is obivious... and I'm certain they won't be changed until the last minute, which won't help at all.

I have a sneaky suspicion that when the oceans run out of fish, the greed will turn to freshwater fish... there aren't nearly as many fish in freshwater as there was in the oceans of the world!

[walkerd]

Guess  ive never thought of it like the vids show Huck, Thanks for posting them and the article. They set laws and limits on inland lakes dont see why they cant do the same on oceans, butttttt with oceans every country that commericial fishes would have to do the samething. Which will not happen. Its a shame at how humans completely desicrate a resource and dont even think about what it will do. Greed will be the worlds downfall.............