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As long as these fish have commercial value this stuff is inevitable and wide spread.
The more serious problem is that as long as the fish have a universally accepted greater value dead than alive, which a commercial use obviously reinforces (but so do recreational tournaments and dead fish pictures) they will be utilized the optimize the number of dead fish rather than the number of live fish.
I think this is the strongest argument for gamefish status. It will go a long way towards changing the mind set that the only good fish is a dead fish and push both striped bass management and recreational behavior towards a much more conservative position.
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