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Originally Posted by Isopod
There's a lot of other stuff they could be doing to reduce mortality, such as re-introducing barbless hook rules (whatever happened to those anyway). If they wanted to go further, they could ban treble hooks and have single barbless hooks only. Banning C&R would mean most fishers would stop buying licenses and since 2/3 of the license fee goes to stocking and habitat preservation, the fishery would pretty much collapse.
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Many studies have been conducted, and the results show that barbless hooks cause the same if not more fish deaths after release then barbed hooks do. barbed hooks have many more lip catches then barbless, which are easier to swallow. Bringing back the barbless only rule will not be good for the fish.