[Back Beach]

Bobber,

Being conscious of your actions and their impact on your surrounds is a positive thing. It’s also important when making the decision to enter or not that you keep things in perspective. With that said, the striper cup’s impact on the fishery is negligible, if non existent at best when you look at the actual landing data as it relates to the fishery as a whole.
As for commercials entering, the skill levels of people possessing a commercial license is as diverse as the non commercial people.
Simply possessing a commercial license doesn’t imply you’re a high liner by any means. No need to exclude them or anyone else.

With the above said I would still keep the large fish, although I release 95% of my fish every year.