GBL,

Good thing or bad thing, but the fish management regulations are based on the data, not on what you think you know. As you say, you catch 5 fish in your sled to the bank angler's one. Therefore the incidental mortality rate says you kill 5 times as many fish over the course of the season, and therefore the regulations will be adjusted to decrease the total number of fish caught. What better way to do it than to restrict fishing from boats? Just because you say that the bank angler's fish dies and yours live doesn't make it so.

Sg