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For me its limiting unnecessary kills. I kept about 10 fish this year out of several hundred legal fish. Most of the fish I take are incrementally larger as I like to document my biggest fish. In other words if I get a 30# fish, everything goes back unless its substantially bigger than the 30. So forth and so on.
Will likely let my commercial license expire next year too. I've had it for 20 plus years, but have no desire to profit from the sale of fish any longer, not that I was ever a threat to begin with.
Last, and I don't want to sound uppity, I try to scale my tackle and technique towards larger fish. Acres of blitzing schoolies to me usually means a bunch of them will be floating belly up due to puncture wounds and deep hookings as a result of people "padding their numbers". Sure, you can use barbless singles and the like, but I prefer to just leave them be. Same thing goes for over wintering fish too. I leave them alone.
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