How Many is enough?

[MMDon]

I think your question would require some framing. Put and take waters are simply that. The Kokanee you don't catch at Ririe simply die off by the thousands with very little spawning. On the other hand I don't take fish out of other waters that are self sustaining fisheries with a limited number of fish. A perch can lay 10,000 eggs at a time so they tend to breed so rapidly that they can stunt the population. Still, I only want a couple of meals a year of them. I feel the F&G have done a pretty good job at setting limits for biomass management in most cases. I take a lot of fish in some cases and I release a lot in others. I always bring my limits of Halibut and Salmon back from Alaska. I guess it just depends. Take what you will use but leave the rest to be caught another day.
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