if people are catching herring like it's their job,pulling them in on sabiki's 3-5 at a time and this is happening up and down the river maybe it is time to lift the ban.

Herring are very plentiful and always have been,it's the creel survey method that is messed up and the reason surveys come up with low numbers. DEEP is afraid to ruin their nets surveying close to shore where the herring actually run so they use flawed data instead to maintain the ban on us Rec guys, but yet the big ocean ships still get to take them by the millions .

my 2 cents on the subject.