Fishing Licensing Exams?

[MichaelAngelo]

(10-25-2012 09:05 AM)MuskieBait Wrote:  No fishing license and zero regulation is what you get in third world and developing worlds.

Have you fished in Southeast Asia where the shorelines are completely depleted of large fish? Sure, pollution is a big factor, but anything else that can survive the pollution is quickly caught and killed.

Because there were no fishing regulations in many countries in Asia, that unregulated catch and kill mentality is already deep in the immigrants.

Now, I'm not saying it's just immigrants doing this. Canadians are also doing this, especially in some small towns where people seem to think they can just get away with things because Conservation Officers are less likely to show up...

Everyone I've talked to from southeast asia has said the same thing: it's fished out.

Dseow just mentioned this to me last Wednesday as well. He told me stories of guys dragging one huge net across an entire body of water and keeping everything.