Just concerned about the mortality of the breeder fish Eben.....examples like the one Mr. Sandman gives alarm me....and as for my mortality rate.....I do not doubt that a small percentage of the fish I catch, and as careful as I am in releasing them, will not survive, but the percentage is as I said very small. However, I cannot openly target "only" the large fish.....thereby taking a fish over 30 pounds everyday if I choose as the spearfisherman can if he so chooses. This is the glutony that I worry about and I know you do too. I only kept 3 fish all this past season Eben, I keep only what I can eat in a short period of time and I do not fill my freezer as most do. My point being that a spearfisherman is solely targeting the large breeder fish...otherwise why is he down there with a speargun.....not to take home a 28 incher I am sure. I know that in any aspect or method of fishing, be it rod and reel, or spearfishing there will be excess and greed and laws will be violated by the ignorant few. My doubts are not directed towards the responsible few but towards the irresponsible many, and I believe there to be many more of the latter.
