What happened in Florida is that you guys were netting for mullet and porgys ect.... and killing thousands of juvenile redfish, snook, mangrove snapper, sea trout, blue crab, pinfish, pufferfish,( I could go on ). I saw this first hand in the Indian and Bannana rivers and near the beaches from Port Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet. I wont make any assumptions and will just go with what I have seen first hand. When the nets were in fishing really started to stink, numbers of redfish, and snook as well as other fish mentioned started to drop off dramatically. Shortly after the nets were removed the fish populations started to come back and fishing improved. I dont think you are really giving everyone the whole story man. BTW bag limits in Florida are very similar to Washingtons. There are slot limits on size and small bag limits for most species. I think that things have gotten so bad here that most of us are already participating in catch and release and would be happy to continue to do so. We have more issues to deal with than commercial fishing in this part of the country so things are a little different here than in Florida. -T