The burbot thing is likely in reference to the caviar of them being desireable.....so you can catch and have 10 of em and if you don't eat the flesh and you do eat the caviar you can take the eggs and waste the rest of the fish. Hence why there is a limit and they are a game fish.
Kind of like with bears you can waste the carcass but have to save the hide.
Lefty
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