01-12-2010, 01:36 AM
What really started me thinking about this is the discussion we had, about possession limit, and catch and release that we had a couple of weeks ago. I was angered by someone who released a few "possibly" mortally injured fish, in retrospect I think I was wrong, maybe some of the fish that were released died, but I did enjoy the injured ones that I chose to keep.
I watched my dad in his retirement, catch many more fish that he and my mom could eat, I think he felt his responsibility was to keep the neighbors happy witch he did very well. I think he and others like him can and do systematically remove and destroy more fisheries than you can imagine, because of boredom.
He didn't understand C&R and so he deprived a lot of the younger generations of catching fish on the weekends.
I think if we imposed a two fish bag and possession limit sales of fishing licenses would go up because of this one statement "I went Glendale the other day and caught two fish that were 3 and 5 lbs. Word of mouth is the best advertising.
I really believe in the quality of our fishing waters and not quantity.
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I watched my dad in his retirement, catch many more fish that he and my mom could eat, I think he felt his responsibility was to keep the neighbors happy witch he did very well. I think he and others like him can and do systematically remove and destroy more fisheries than you can imagine, because of boredom.
He didn't understand C&R and so he deprived a lot of the younger generations of catching fish on the weekends.
I think if we imposed a two fish bag and possession limit sales of fishing licenses would go up because of this one statement "I went Glendale the other day and caught two fish that were 3 and 5 lbs. Word of mouth is the best advertising.
I really believe in the quality of our fishing waters and not quantity.
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