The mindset here in America is that most sportsmen would like to believe every fishery (esp in its infancy) would support a seemingly limitless amount of opportunity. There's just so many fish that placing limits on participation seems ridiculous. Afterall, this is the land of the free and the home of the brave. Where fair access means either we all have access otherwise NONE should have access.

This ecumenical "embrace all styles of fishing" management strategy makes it difficult to manage exploitation with any degree of precision. Certain method/means of fishing are much higher impact than others (bait vs artificial, boat vs bank, gear vs fly) Retention fisheries are clearly higher impact than C&R fisheries. Yet how many (as AP stated) would cry foul if their chosen (high impact) style of fishing is excluded from the fishery?

Folks are just gonna have to come to grips with the fact that fishing has to become more exclusionary as stocks decline. Some folks are gonna have to leave the fishery... they'll forgo participation because they are either excluded by price, excluded by lottery, or excluded by refusal to fish according to the restrictions placed on methods/means.

At some point we're all gonna have to get over it. Change sucks!