It is interesting that hunters and fishermen often claim, in surveys, that the number one reason that they go out is to be in nature. Catching/killing is almost always way down on the list.

If that were the case, then rods, reels, and guns are not needed and open seasons aren't either.

Back in the 1980s there was an issue with South Sound Chinook wherein the non-Indians were taking more than 50%. Part of the solution was to close much of the Sound to Chinook Harvest. It wasn't closed to salmon fishing, just Chinook killing. C&R was open, coho were open, yet nobody went out. My first encounter with the fact that being out in nature is not more important than killing.