The recreation people do not have the opportunity to over harvest,, it is denied because they are under control as is the abundance of the resource...


You see,, the fish resource is in a position of scarcity because of management,, over harvest being used as a tool of control,, in the past and continuously to this day...


Once you decimate the wild production which is not human controlled yet human impacted you establish hatcheries to initially supplement the wild production loss,, then you ration the hatchery production to cause scarcity and blame it on the environment/human impact so you can impose restrictions and more control over the people,, also to deny them FOOD or the ability to feed themselves outside the banking cartel/centralized system of control...