Growing up on a Puget Sound beach, I’ve seen the destruction of our Salmon runs by gillnets firsthand.
Notice how they wish to rename them “tangle nets” and “large mesh”. It doesn’t matter what you call them, they are indiscriminate walls of death.
Small fish, large fish, all get caught and killed. If you leave them out they collect birds as well.
It amazes me that Susewind calls them a “management tool”

If you were a commercial fisherman, why would you want to use anything else? The phrase “kill them all and let God sort them out” comes to mind. The netters like playing God.