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Originally Posted by B-Stealth
I will predict the future, Chas will jump all over this post around 8-8:30 am.
W the person who caught and released a 9lber is not a conservationist, but you are because you tag fish? 
I think its great you tag fish, but that alone doesnt make you a conservationist. IMO
You are also assuming that the 9lb angler has never tagged.
Must have been a good board meeting  |
Kinda the same thing I was thinking. I feel the same way about ppl that know nothing about fishing, pushing the laws for fishing. But in all honesty tagging is not going to conserve resources. It will provide good data to maybe plan limits and stuff years down the road, but a conservationist is someone who works to conserve resources. so yea the guy who lets a 9 lb trout go is a conservationist. Now if he is going to do that then yea why not put a tag in it just for later records. but to say he isn't a conservationist, I have to disagree.