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Originally Posted by Bushleague
While I feel that C&R is a necessity at this point, as a fairly avid practitioner I will agree that the ethics of sticking a hook in an animals face for entertainment purposes are dodgy. If if you did the same thing to a squirrel or a cat you would likely serve jail time.
It its what it is... just another small tidbit of evidence that our species jumped the shark at least 100 years ago.
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This is why it's important to keep some kind of retention possibility in the regs.
It's easier to justify fishing if you're eating one, or at least have the possibility of catching something you're going to eat.
If there is zero retention in a water body, fishing there only hurts the fish population, and the argument can be made it should be closed to fishing.