From: "Cyli"


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| Germany, too, I believe. And some countries don't (or didn't at my
| last information) allow catch and release fishing. If you catch it,
| you take it home with you. I don't know what they do about size
| restrictions or even if they have any. I know that some of the
| private waters have number of fish per species limits and assume that
| all or most of the countries do, too. And I believe there's on
| country (Germany comes to mind) where you have to pass a test to get
| your basic license.
|
| Sort of like the difference in the Internet here and 'over there'. In
| many places every byte and bit you download is counted, where in the
| US, as far as I know, we have, at most, number of hour limits until
| you get to some of the specialized ones where people download binaries
| by the ton. My present ISP just went from 200 hours / month for
| dialup users to unlimited. They'd had DSL users unlimited from the
| start. So even though editing posts is merely good manners in the US,
| it's saving money in other countries.
|
| Cyli
| r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
| Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless.
|
| http://www.visi.com/~cyli
| email: lid (strip the .invalid to email)



That's weird. I practice Catch & Release most of the time.
I can't imagine the idea of being forced to take home fish that I won't eat.
If I am not going to eat it, I want the fish to live.

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David H. Lipman wrote:

That's weird. I practice Catch & Release most of the time.
I can't imagine the idea of being forced to take home fish that I won't eat.
If I am not going to eat it, I want the fish to live.

Much of Europe forces anglers to kill whatever they catch because the
supposed "animal rights" groups pressured the government to enact such
rules.

If you catch a tiny fish, too small to eat, you're forced to kill it.
If you catch an endangered speices, you're forced to kill it.
If you catch an inedible species, you're forced to kill it.

It shows how messed up the "animal rights" people are when they FORCE
anglers to KILL fish that could be released unharmed.

I encourage Europeans to have the fish slip out of their hands and get
away "accidentally".

In the USA, PETA and HSUS are trying to get catch and release fishing
outlawed. Some meathogs (usually in Yankee states) try to exploit this
to rationalize their meathogging (In-Fisherman).

An infamous enemy of catch-and-release fishing is Scott Adams, who
described it as "torture" in an awful Dilbert strip. Adams is
obviously a sissy dork who has never set foot outside a cubicle. He
portrayed the evil pointy-haired boss as the catch and release
fisherman, portraying fishing as bad. He uses his Dilbert strip not to
be funny, but to advance his far-left agenda (anti-fishing, vegetarian,
feminist, etc). In the typical hypocrisy of a vegan, Scott Adams
causes entire ecosystems to be destroyed as wetlands are drained and
forests are clearcut to grow the crops for his vegan lifestyle.
Fishermen and hunters selectively harvest individual animals as natural
predators, not damaging the ecosystem. Successful fishermen catch many
more fish than they could consume, so they _have_ to release the vast
majority of their fish or else they'd quit fishing within an hour of
each trip.


Regarding the original question, I get approached by the game warden
here in the USA about once a year, sometimes never in a year, sometimes
two or three times. The miles of stream / lake shoreline per game
warden is huge, so they're rare.

"Terry Lomax" wrote in message
oups.com...

Regarding the original question, I get approached by the game warden
here in the USA about once a year, sometimes never in a year, sometimes
two or three times. The miles of stream / lake shoreline per game
warden is huge, so they're rare.

I have gone several years without ever being checked hunting or fishing, and
I have had stretches where my hunting license has been checked a couple
times and my fishing license checked five or six times within a couple
months.

Of course that always brings to mind the game warden in Ohio who tried to
nail me when I was 14 years old. In Ohio you can fish without a license
until you are sixteen years old. The fellow walked up and asked me what
grade I was in. He had the darndest time believing I was only 14 and going
into my junior year in high school. LOL. After grilling me and making me
very nervous for about twenty minutes he gave up and admitted there were no
holes in my story. (I was only 14.)
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