Fishing Season Opinion Question

[fishnate]

You seem to be equating quality of our fisheries by the number of fish allowed in the bag. I know a surprizing number of people who fish strictly to eat them, once they have their limit they go home and then complain that their trip was cut short because of small limits. It gets worse when I tell them I caught 20 or 30 from the same water in one day and they say that was more than my limit. The clincher is that virtually every one of my fish went back into the fishery. My opinion is that most of our fisheries are in as good a shape as ever even with the year-round season and the limits are just smaller to allow more folks the opportunity to eat some. Most, I say again, most families in Utah don't require more than one or two limits of any species to have a great meal. When you run out of fish go fishin again or when you have your limit, catch and release. Its hard to complain about more fishin time. If only I could catch and release hunting....

Anyway you can't compare quantity to quality in this case. There's just too much pressure and too few dollars to supply that much put-and-take fishing these days.
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