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Originally Posted by Dewey Cox
This is why it's important to keep some kind of retention possibility in the regs.
It's easier to justify fishing if you're eating one, or at least have the possibility of catching something you're going to eat.
If there is zero retention in a water body, fishing there only hurts the fish population, and the argument can be made it should be closed to fishing.
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That argument has already been made in some areas of Europe, where ‘catch & kill’ is permitted, while ‘catch & release’ is not.
Even in Canada, there are First Nation traditionalists that believe that ‘catch & release’ is simply playing with your food - and that’s not what the Creator provided fish to man for.