No way you are going away.
Charter trips "generally" take people who don't boat fish a lot, so of course they want, and get, to keep as much as they can . But for most of the fishermen I know (many ) we have boats and ways and means to get to fish. We don't fill the box, why bother you only need a couple a year. We fish for FUN, a release from the trials and tribulations of stressful lives in hard times, a hobby. If you were not making money off it, I'm sure would and do fish for fun also.
Few here are begrudging your career, charters are necessary so everyone can fish. We have no real issues catching fish, move around a bit you'll find them. But the shorebound guys ( the majority of fishermen) are not seeing fish as they used to. For lots of reasons, hence their concern.
Your manner of speaking to us is a bit pontificating and it rubs some people the wrong way, thats why you get the reactions you do. Not me though, I was a Southie project punk. We all speak like this.
Try a different tact, you may find a different result.
Personally, I think the Basses foremost problems are in the very beginnings of their life, not how they end up killed.