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Originally Posted by Okotokian
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Here is the conclusion from your study:
In contrast, the use of barbless hooks results in a small reduction in unhooking time (so it was assumed that the mortality rate could be improved), but at the cost of a dramatically reduced cpue. Hence, in our case, we conclude that, unlike with the effect of hook size, the use of barbless hooks does not provide any significant advantage from a conservation perspective.
Here is the info out of wikipedia for goodness sake:
Most actual scientific studies regarding post release mortality have shown however that barbless hooks do not result in statistically significantly lower mortality rates than barbed hooks.[4]
As I said before - useless law designed to make money for the F&W team