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Following up on what Mike P. has pointed out, yes it is all in good fun, but there is a cost to that fun. The 2006 Mass SB Monitoring Report was just released recently and the recreational release mortality numbers were twice what the harvest numbers were by number of individuals, something like and estimated 700,000 post release mortality to 350,000 retained fish. Haven't read through the full report to check on estimation methodologies but there is definitely an impact to all this excitement.
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