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Originally Posted by PaulS
No, a dead fish is a dead fish. But we are allowing each comm. to kill many more fish than each rec. angler. Seems unfair to put limits on one sector w/o any impact to the other sector and ignoring that 10% - 20%??? mortality bc it is a smaller % of the problem.
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EXACTLY!!!! Toby, while I agree and there is empirical evidence, that the recs kill fish thru lousy C&R, there is no denying that the comm guys kill substancially more fish then is realized. There is the "market" and there is the "grey market". The back door of restaurants that buy, illegally from comms.
To say this doesn't exist is sticking your head in the sand. This is where a complete moratorium would help. If no one can have, sell, keep, kill, trade, whatever, Bass then the stocks would recover. It worked in the late 80s and it would work again.