check this out for a C&R

If its venting and barotramam that concerns you check out Dave W's thread on that subject. This thread was about whats going on in Oregon. Not the pacific pier or the party boats out of ther city. Its not my job to go out and enforce the law as I see fit. Like they said they aren't doing anything illegal. Just plain stupid. So go to your pier and take pics. Turn em in. Carry a sign. Whatever. Start your own thread about whatever. This one just happened to be about one certain thing. Not a diverse plethura of info about every immoral infraction in the world.

waterslide sounds like a decent idea to get them back to the water (although it would bring up other sorts of junk like kids trying to ride down it, people throwing stuff down it, etc), but I think that there is as much damage done in bringing the sturgeon *up* the wall as in them bellyflopping back into the water. 

while sturgeon are seen as strong and sturdy fish it is known that they can be caused serious internal damage by being improperly snared in the midsection and lifted by that position.  being lifted 80 feet in the air by a small cord around the belly or neck would be no fun for us people either.

that one guy who took 20 minutes to snare that baby sturgeon?  a fish struggling on top of the water for that long is unlikely to survive.  that fish likely would have done better if he simply handlined it up the wall face and dropped it back into the water (as long as it was not gut hooked)

from watching the video and the location of the fishing, I don't really see how people can fish that location without doing at least some damage to the fish.  fishing should just be banned there imho.

Just off the bluff, not off the rocks where the one guy released a fish nicely.  Plenty of bridges say 'no fishing'. 

Or you could have no size limit, but you must keep whatever fish you catch.  If you gonna kill it, you might as well eat it.  Seems like you could fairly make the assumption that most of the fish that are caught there die.