DWR what the hell

[Fishrmn]

You may not fish at waters that have a
specific bag or size limit if you possess fish
in violation of that limit. For example, if the
cutthroat trout limit at a river you’d like to
fish is two cutthroats, and you harvested
three cutthroats earlier that day at another
water, you can’t fish at that river until you
consume or donate at least one of the cut-
throats you harvested earlier.

Copied from the 2009 Utah Fishing Guidebook, aka Proclamation.

In the example above there is no mention of not being able to fish while you are in possession of a limit of fish. It implied that you can fish at that river while in possession of a limit of cutthroat trout. But you cannot fish there while in possession of a fish which would exceed the limit. If you were to fish the river in the example above, you would have to release all cutthroat trout that you caught.

In fact, the electronic copy of last year's guide book had the example of already being in possession of two cutthroats, and not being able to fish the river. I pointed out that being in possession of two cutthroat trout on a river that has a limit of two cutthroat trout is not a violation of that limit. It is in compliance of said limit. It was changed (corrected) prior to printing.
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