Selective fishing gear was traditionally used more on the west coast, with fish wheels. What we're seeing right now is that some of the fishing methods are actually impacting species that are at very low abundance, whether they be gillnets, seine nets or in-river fisheries. There are methods being piloted out there. Pound nets are one example. A similar type of trap net on a boat or a movable platform is also being looked at, where the fish come in through a funnel-type system and they are not taken out of the water or gillnetted in any way. The non-target species can be moved through the system and, with no harm whatsoever, allowed to go up river, while the target species are taken out and harvested. There's already been one study done down on the Columbia River, and they're looking at doing one on the Skeena River this year. It could be very beneficial to some of those stocks that are in extreme states of depletion.
On February 25th, 2020. See this statement in context.