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Originally Posted by jad2t
Ahem...MOST people who eat fish do not "decimiate the population".
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Fixed that for you
Not trying to stir the pot but in Korea, I saw first hand what can happen to lakes once people start fishing for bass and bluegill and keep everything and anything they catch. 2 of my favorite lakes got "decimated". When I first started fishing them, I could easily catch 10-20 2-3 pound bass per day, and I could take a rooster tail and walk the bank and catch 50 or more nice bluegill (all catch and release unless they were gut hooked and bleeding real bad). Once the bass craze started up over there, and people found how how good they tasted, it was all over because in Korea, there is no thing as conservation; no creel limits, no size limits...so the fishermen kept everything and anything they caught. Just a few years later, it was a rare occurance to catch a bass over 10 inches in either of those lakes, and the bluegill were nowhere to be seen or found. Now these weren't huge lakes like JPP or OH...