Nice dialogue...but from experience I have found many of these regulations to be for appearances sake rather than actual effect. Just passing rules to make it look like something is being done...and thats fish politics in a nutshell. My personal feeling is that the blanket ban on barbed hooks is based more on personal feelings than actual science....but I'm sure some will use smaller scenarios to opppose this thought...just remember I'm speaking about the larger picture as this rule applies too...discussions of smaller pictures of reality
will go both ways.