What does ethics have to do with it? A flossed fish is a snagged fish...we (including DFO) know it. This is simply and enforcement issue. I have seen tickets given out for flossing coho on the vedder so to hear that someone here has an inside track on what DFO is thinking or what their mandate is...I find that quite laughable.
"enforcing a ban on flossing is difficult to prove"...Doja, that doesnt even make sense?!? If you are going to participate in this debate, at least try and form a functional sentence that represents an intelligent position!
PS doja, when you pull in sock after sock and the are all hooked outside-in, never INSIDE the mouth, any intelligent person knows how the fish was hook. So to me, that leaves only two questions, are you one of the delusional fishers that think the actually fish bit or are you one of the types that just doesnt care and hides behind this whole "they cant prove it" idea?