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Originally Posted by Dino
i kind of disagree that 54" fork length is "extremely conservative." taking a 54" fork thresher or mako back to the dock .. its like the equivalent of shooting a week old fawn deer from you're tree stand.. you're taking the resource before its had a chance to grow and become that trophy buck. protect it while its small, and then you will have more big bucks roaming the woods to shoot and harvest. we have these species we know can achieve 700+ lbs, they should introduce a alternative minimum Fork length for them. to me that is far preferable to a complete ban
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I was speaking about the one fish per vessel per day as "extremely conservative," and the way the commercial fishery is managed. In any case, from an ecological perspective, it is better the harvest a smaller individual than it is to take a large, mature shark. Trying to compare management regimes and biology of sharks and deer are, well like comparing apples and oranges.
