Aunty, I don't feel any need to make you a bad guy...only the very first sentence applies to you, and I wasn't even talking to you, anyway.

No matter how many times you say it, a 20x higher mortality rate for bonking fish compared to that of releasing them is not just "opportunity"...it's smart, and it puts more fish on the spawning gravel.

From "more fish" comes all the rest...the opportunity, the economic benefits, the nutrient load benefits, and the biological benefits to the fish runs...and you can continue to define it as "all about opportunity" with no benefits to the fish all you want, but you're just as wrong now as you were the first time you said it, and saying it over and over again doesn't make it any more true.

Fish on...

Todd