If they consider a released fish a mortality, then why do we have to use barbless hooks? Aren’t barbless hooks suppose to stop the mortality rate? The answer is if you hook one regardless if it is a hatchery fish or native, they are just going to die after spawning anyway, you keep it! This clipped fin and barbless is nothing but BULLS****! If fish and game considers a released fish a dead fish then just keep it!
Smokeploe