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Although not raised an actual farmer...I was raised a farmers daughter and that is close enough. If you catch it and its legal you eat it. If your not going to eat it( or give it to someone that will) you let it go. Its only ok to keep and not eat if its a once in a lifetime fish and it will go on the wall (you do this only once, so make it count!)
I have no problem with people keeping fish if they are beingconsumed or as I stated above that once in a lifetime fish to mount. If someone keeps often just to show off then I feel disgusted by it. Also dont like the "holier than though" attitude of the "catch and release" few that feel they kill none. Get over your ego...your still potentially killing some even if you let them go.
Last but not least I would rather see one fisherman take 5 keepers on 5 single lines with hooks to keep multiple pounds of striper than to see a massive boat with a massive net catch one pound of shrimp and throw 40 pounds of dead/or going to be dead "by-catch" over the side. this happening every minute sickens me way more than one guy keeping a 70 pound bass once in his life.
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