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I don't think one can say "now" as opposed to "before".
In my fishing career I've met anglers (surf and boat) who claim to have taken upwards of a dozen 40-50# fish a year. Even if they are only half truthful that's still a lot more than many guys get in a life time.
I'm not begrudging them their catch. Merely saying the taking of large numbers of big fish by a relatively small number of anglers (compared to the total angling population) isn't new. It could be that now more than before that was a problem for the survival of the stocks. But I think we just hear about it more today than before.
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