How are you different than the commercial guys. Because it takes more sport fisherman to do the same amount of damage? So your individual impact is less by degrees making it more palatable? Hard arguement for the guy to swallow that wants all fishing banned.
Commercial fishing is a symptom.


The argument IMHO is pointless for various reasons. One you cannot live in this country and not consider yourself part of the problem. You cannot be part of a consumer economy and recycle your news paper and cans and call your contribution even with your impact. The rest of the developing world is trashing the lragest % of the planet to fuel their econmies by selling us stuff. Secondly at best we are delaying the invetitable. Like all organisims we will suffer the consequences of our existance in a closed ecosystem. It's been too late for a long time. It might seem fatalist but given the population forecast for the next 50 years it's more realistic.

Envrionmentalism does not exist as far as nature is concerned. Nature can and will exist with out the presence of man. We only want to shape to suit our needs not it's needs.