You have to be joking....I just shared a large bottle of wine with my father over an all you can eat clam boil so pardon my slurrring....
...but are you people that ignorant to believe that there could ever be a system that would even come close to keeping track of the number of fish...legal or not, that are caught by both commercial and recreational fishermen???? The number of fish that actually die after a non-successful release??? Or get discarded as bycatch ...or whatever/etc///.......most of the analytical numbers are bogus in my opinion. Like Saltheart said in the other thread, (but in my own words) ...most people on these websites are fairly honest
...but what about the
other people. Mr. Saturday night, fishing off of a bridge...catching shorts and releasing them from a 40' drop? Or the guy who spends 20 minutes trying to unhook some trebles? Or the boats in an open oceanic spot where they know how much time they have before they can be possibly boarded???....
Soft science is an EXTREME understatement if you ask me.
I HAVE TO believe that the people that do catch regularly, KNOW what they're doing (more or less) ...and DO catch more than Mr. Saturday night who like Saltheart said, do NOT catch many fish.
Mr. Saturday night catches a shorty during his night and keeps it. Mr. Experienced internet hero catches 14 shorties and releases them all. Of the 14, 4 do not make it. Mr. Saturday night is responsible for 1 death (which he consumes), Mr. Internet HERO is responsible for 4 deaths? Who is doing more harm? The guy breaking the law...or the guy obeying the law but killing more fish?.....there's a Poll for ya.
