I believe there is a significant education piece to something like this working.
There has been a lot of mentions of how many fish are killed at the ditch during the big runs. I'll bet most of those people have no idea about the status of the fishery and I'd bet most of those people would think twice about taking their limit just to be able to say they did. Not implying these fish are going to waste or anything but I know people who keep them and just give them to the neighbors, etc.
I'll bet only a small fraction of people who keep fish are on message boards, etc but they all eventually go to the tackle shops. Maybe a flyer in the shops to educate and direct them to a website if they want to read more and maybe even do something to help.
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