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JohnR, interesting little article, but who was financing that study, the commercial fishing industry. I find it hard to believe that they can publish this information on hear say or evidence contributed by a fishermen but not confirmed, maybe I am missing something here, but if they want to do a real study, they should be out on the water in different area's with fisherman and just see what is really happening to these fish after they have been released.
Many of our friends that fish and catch and release day after day, catching sometimes over 100 fish a day, at the same spots, don't see a lot of fish floating in the coves and bay that have come up dead from catch and release. I know we tidal changes but come on. So how are they really confirming such an issue? Before they publish such bull sh## they should come out and spend a few days on the water.
We did a survey a few years ago with the club, don't know if you remember, to get an idea of the average fish caught and size, but it is not based on fact, just opinions from the individuals that caught those fish and filled out the survey. So I would really like to know how they came up with these statistics. JMOP
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