Aunty -

I think you are assuming just as many things we are...

Just b/c people can retain more fish doesn't mean they are available to catch. I believe generally that the number of fish caught on a daily basis is limited primarily by the number of willing biters. Especially when you have the number boats fishing that all of our popular fisheries exhibit. You can agree or disagree with this premise, but it explains why you math doesn't mean a thing to me.

I agree with Kevin because I believe that biters will be caught so long as a bait makes it front of their face, regardless of whether it is a boat trying to get their first fish or a boat working on the backside of a two fish limit. In a sense, the overall pressure on the fish makes up for reduced limits to individual fisherman.

Thus, the one fish limit simply changes the allocation of the fish caught among the participating boats. Nodbody is singing this as the gospel, but I think it is a pretty solid theory that is born on rivers on a daily basis.

Dom