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Something to consider
I can't open the link, but I will tell that I agree whole heartedly with John, as the bait issue has been a problem for much longer than many realize -- some were warning about this problem in the early 1990s but they did not get much air - and it's from a wide array of problems that include overharvesting, but also increased coastal development ...
... that aside, here's a thought we may want to consider before slamming comms - while I don't agree with their methods, catches, bycatch, philosophies, this example could shed an interesting twist to consider ...
... a similar situation happened at Outdoor Life magazine in the early/mid 1990s, the editor in chief at the time wanted to run a story that condemed bear baiting -- luring bears in with food and shooting them -- as a form of hunting. The magazine refused to run it and the EIC quit in protest (what he claimed was a matter of principal), a brief on that appeared in the Wall Street Journal (must have been a slow news day)... problem that he failed to see -- according to others in the hunting industry -- was if you open the door to condeming one form of hunting, even the littlest crack could enable the anti-hunting types to rush in and ruin it/shut it down for all hunters.
That's a challenge that we have to deal with regarding comms and recs ... but for the fish, if we have strong supplies of bait, the fish will be here in force ... although I preferred it to one fish per day at 36 inches.
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