Stream Net - Fish Data for the Northwest

StreamNet is a cooperative information management and data dissemination project focused on fisheries and aquatic related data and data related services in the Columbia River basin and the Pacific Northwest.

Their website provides access to fish and fisheries related data and reference documents in the Columbia River basin and the Pacific Northwest.

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The Impact of Hook Retention on Released Bonefish

The issue of hook retention now been the subject of a detailed scientific report from ELSEVIER highlighted in the THE ABACO SCIENTIST. The report’s main conclusions can be summarised as follows:

-Hooks, especially shallow ones, are expelled fairly quickly.
-For deep-hooked fish, barbless hooks are significantly easier for the fish to deal with.
-The presence of a hook does not appear to interfere with feeding.
-Hook size is not a material factor.
-All the test sample fish survived.

LINK (via: Rolling Harbor Abaco)