Native Fish Coalition Executive Director Bob Mallard on Bag Limits (MidCurrent)
Note the radical discrepancies from state to state in regard to the daily bag limit on native brook trout in rivers and streams. (Native Fish Coalition)
“When it comes to trout fishing, the standard daily harvest or “bag limits” across the country are all over the map, and in many cases, not what you would expect them to be, or in fact what they should be.”
In the third installment of his new conservation column in MidCurrent, Native Fish Coalition Executive Director Bob Mallard tackles the issue of daily bag limits.
“Harvest is not a ‘management tool,’ as some fisheries biologists and anglers like to claim, at least not from a biological standpoint. It is a concession made for social reasons. Fisheries do not need harvest to remain healthy, as evidenced by early fishing pictures that show fish that are much larger than what we find in those same waters today. ”
