After you get your limit

[OldTimer]

The angling number and size limits are set to hopefully properly manage the sustainability of various fish populations while still allowing some harvest.

It is a condition unique to this pass time we enjoy. Hunters strive to kill their prey, thus leaving no decisions required ……….. Success = Instant Death, and limits are considered before aiming the gun.

An acquaintance of mine tells me that “Anglers get to play God” in these regards. He may be close in his assessment…………… sometimes.

No matter how you dress it up - You can’t have this sport without inflicting some sort damage on the fish……….. some is temporary and some is possibly permanent or fatal – by the puncture wounds, net wounds, lactic acid stress, pressure sickness, the freezing or frost bite of their eye surface tissue in winter, suffocation…………. Etc.

I enjoy fishing and will continue to do so as long as I am able while strictly obeying the regulations as may be established. I may keep fish occasionally for food. I shall strive to minimize my impact. That’s about the best I can do, or shall do.

Cheers,

OldTimer