If this rules goes through, I think everything should go barbless.

It makes it much easier to release the fish in the water using a hook release tool.

I just dont see how people are gonna take a barbed hook out with a fish dangling at the end of it with tension on the line. Especially out of a boat.

When I fished the Karluk we used hook release tools exclusively, (the Teeny type). Most of the time you had to release the fish out in the current as there was no banks. From my experience there I dont see how you could use barbed hooks and be able to release fish in the water without causing alot of stress.

If everybody just cuttt them off that work too. The guys I fish with and I do that alot from the boat as it is alot quicker and less painless for the fish.