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Originally Posted by Sea Flat
I definitely would not be against it. I do like to keep a fish from time to time, but I would rather just catch fish and if I have to throw it back then that is fine with me.
I do not understand why charter boat and party boat captains are so against stricter regs. People will still want to go fishing even if they have to throw them back won't they? If anything it will help their business long term.
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A couple or more big fish on the dock is advertising. Anyone who is curious enough to take time to stop and watch a charter boat unload at the dock at the end of a trip becomes a potential, though innocently enough, customer.
I knwo I worked charter boats in the 70's and the more fish you could put on the dock and have a bunch of satisfied chater clients back slapping and snapping pictures and hooting and hollering about how greath the fishing was attracts the innocent bystanders into the notion of doing it themsleves. If you put more on the dock to see then the next skipper you get more business, it's all about making money and making more than the next guy.
