No, not really. Not until you attemped to hijack the thread.


Think about the total number of fish that were taken............. 20,000 + finclipped fish. The fish were caught at the rate at which they would bite. At no point in time did you see any less effort to take fish from the Columbia river because of a 1 vs 2 fish limit. If you had witnessed a difference in teh number of boats of the water, then you might be able to say that everyone caught there limit and left the river open for someone else.

What I am getting at is this.....

If I guided the river and was efficient at what I did, I could run two trips a day and take doulbe the fish from the river, if they would cooperate and bite that good. Nothing illegal about it, but definatly going to use up more of the impacts. So by making the limit 1 fish, I am able to get more people into a fish rather than just one group. Now I've taken twice as many fish out of the river as the one fish limt was intented. Not only that, I created double the revenue. Wait, I jsut realized my buddies havn't yet had an opportunity to go out. Hey guys, I'll call ya when i'm done with that early limit and I'll get you into a few fish too.
Now can you see where I'm goin with this.
You shorten the day with a 1 fish limit and now you've got time on your hands, so now you can get more people into a fish rather than just getting your 2 a piece, you might let 2 guys out of you boat, and pick up three more. Why do that. Because you are only allowed one fish. The guys in the boat with 1 fish drove their cars and are ready to go home. The bite is pretty good, so you know you will only be out there a little while, might as well get a few more guys in the boat. I know one guy who ran 12 guys throug his boat one day. All of them took home fish. If it were a 2 fish limit, maybe it would take a while longer to get two fish, and thus create a bigger opportunity to stay on the boat longer. Less people to cycle through the waters is less fish that will die. Limit the opportuntiy on something as good as the Springer fishery in the Big C. and you will see a huge impact on pressure.