Actually what you said about " the trawl fisheries catch and destroy more halibut than the hook and line fishermen are allowed to catch " is inaccurate and very misleading. Also no one seems to talk about the discarded or sub-legal halibut released by longliners in the cod, blackcod and halibut fisheries. Studies show that halibut caught and released on a standard barbed halibut hook have around a 20% mortality rate. That is the rate applied to halibut discard/sub-legals released in the directed halibut fishery and the cod line line fishery. The legal size for a longline vessel to retain halibut is 32".  The biomass of halibut out there is very substantial. Its very much at its historical rate before the biomass spike back in the 90s. Trawling was very much happening before that spike. Now everyone wants that huge biomass aberration to become the standard instead of the outlier. After reading your last sentence i take it you want the trawl fleet to bring the halibut into the market,smh