So ya... Nasty new regulations for the rockfish fishers in all of us... 3 rockfish/day this year and only one yelloweye... that's very mean considering the longliners out there mass annihilating the species as irritable bycatch.
Anyways, some very easy to do techniques to ensure unwanted rockfish survive.
As none of this info seems to appear in any DFO literature or the BC regs etc, please spread this info to anybody you know that ocean fishes. No sense wasting fish when it's so easy to keep the things alive. If your charter guide doesnt know this technique, you might as well learn him! Maybe learn your government law enforcement officials. In fact if you encounter any DFO personel, you may as well learn them too!
Applicable to them little perches that people seem to fish for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ThRMgq36c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB6oNolIq8g
http://wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/bottomfis...mortality.html