Look at the redfish crash that happened down south. They made the redfish a game fish, then added a slot limit.. the redfish is booming, and yes, you can still fish for them and you can still eat them, you just cant comercially fish for them.
Sorry, but for the poor comercial guy struggling to feed the family, if you cant afford to feed yoru family, how can you justify buying a boat? IMO its just an excuse. If you cant afford to boat fish and have to suppliment income by killing as many fish so you can buy your gps and radar gadgets, tackle, dockage, then hide behind the blanket that you cant afford to feed your family, and have to kill hundreds of bass, well.... you get no sympathy from me....This isn't aimed at anyone on the board, by the way, I just dont believe in the comercial harvest of a fish that was almost fished out. We made the mistake once and it seems many people can justify doing it agian
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