Let them spearfish for the bass. The mortality rate will be smaller than the mortality rate on a hot May weekend at the canal due to the small population of proficient spearfishermen. Look at it this way; one tow from a dragger out east in October that sets on a school of bass will kill a 1000 times more in one hour than the entire New England spearfishing population will kill in a year. Sometimes we as fishermen want them all for us and not share with other groups.
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