Keeping an occasional medium fish to eat is no big deal.
Killing a large fish (and its millions of eggs) to show it off, weigh it for curiousity's sake, or win a prize,....while a totally valid and legal use of the resource.....is an intensely selfish act given the present state of the fishery.
The truth is that most fishermen don't care and, moreover, many are proud of it.
So it goes, it is a public resource and belongs to all types.
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