Originally Posted By: tugalodan
What i'm asking is why is it the Sound was closed to fishing because there was not a good enough return, but when fish that are spawning and making more new babies to re-populate the species they can be caught and the eggs destroyed.

If the fish are caught in the salt, they won't be spawning either. One nice thing about the river fisheries is that we know what population the fish are from. Catch a fish in River A, and it's from that population. In many saltwater areas, a fish could be from River A, B, or C when only River A is considered to have a healthy population.