[tlapinski]

Originally Posted by Rockfish9

I've been saying for a long time, they NEED a tag system, you purchase a tag for a bonus trophy fish, you place the tag upon retention, and register the fish with F&G real simple,IF you do not place the tag( with date CUT out on the fish and get caught, heavy fines and restitution will be the penalty, Texas is one state that requires a tag for red drum over the slot...it's a simple and effective system but everyone in our fisheries control group finds excuses not to follow through on it..

I discussed this concept with an ASMFC SB board member back when the slot was being proposed. The "problem" (excuse) was that there is not sufficient data for harvest of large fish to accurately account for how many fish over a certain length would be harvested annually with a trophy tag scenario.