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Originally Posted by keakar
I and I think everyone else understands the "battle" and the targeting of them for "sport" but I think I and most others just wonder why in the world are they even taken out of the water and brought to the scales for tournaments? many "sport fish" are catch and release only which is how tarpon should be if indeed they aren't considered worth eating.
shark and bill fish regularly have catch and release tournaments where they measure, tag, and release fish on the spot and weights are measured by the size and not dragged to a scale where the fish dies to just become fertilizer
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Marlin are often brought to the scales in a lot of big time tournaments. Such a small percentage of tarpon that are caught are actually killed, that I seriously doubt that it hurts a thing. Tarpon are normally brought to the scales only if it is a record class fish or if it is for a tournament.
In Florida, they are not even allowed to be brought into the boat for a picture.