I think its time fisheries stopped looking at gear, and started looking at real conservation measures. Like damage to fish bearing streams thru logging practices, the impacts of commercial fishing, and drift nets. As sport fisherman, we will adapt to any gear restriction they throw at us, its our nature to overcome any restriction, and we will. Perhaps in this case all it will take is small circle hooks?
|The issue shouldn't be how many fish we catch,or weather they survive after we catch and release them, it should be about how can we insure that there is enough fish for all, without restrictions. Fisheries is in a race to the bottom, or in this case a race to failure and insignificance. After the fish are gone, we can pay to jig for salmon in a fish farm pen.[:0]
