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Originally Posted by Gremlin
How many can you release after you have shot the fish with a spear gun? That's the problem I have. And you can't say that all fish that were speared were of legal limit.
I have no problem if all they shot were keepers and could only keep the same as rod and reel guys.
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How many shorts are measured by fishermen, photos taken, passed around to buddies so they can take pictures or gill hooked or just kicked back into the water. How many bass are gut hooked by letting the fish "take the bait" or even yo-yoing? How many die. What about the masses of schoolies caught with trebles? They all dont survive trust me. There is no basis to the argument you make. We fishermen kill way more bass incidentally in a week than the whole spear community will kill in the season.
For reference I dive and catch lobsters. I am almost 99% correct on size before I measure them under water. The same goes for the spear fishermen I'm sure. How many shorts are killed during commercial season or winched in on wire and mutilated before being thrownm thrown back during any weekend ?