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Years ago I made a prediction (here) that sports fishing would be
banned around the year 2020 and that pure, Catch and Release fishing
would be causal for this.



Tim - I am disappointed that after some years hiatus all you can come up
with is the same old PETA/AR Loon propaganda and that tired old paper from a
committee funded by Norway's department of agriculture - which was not the
Ministry that even had jurisdiction over sport fishing in that country. The
paper like most government commissioned papers was meaningless and ignored.

For the sake of amusement - how do you see this ban progressing? Given that
many states (and the Province in Canada I live in) have legislation
guaranteeing the right to fish, what political jurisdictions do you think
will be the bell weather locations for the progression of the ban? Can you
name one jurisdiction where such a ban has had serious political momentum?

Any "nobody" can make a predcition for anything 15 to 25 years out.
Hopefully we will all be around in 14 years or so to see if your prediction
comes true or if it is even close to happening for the reasons you say.
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Some of my angling snaps:

http://gallery.fishbc.com/gallery/vi...bumName=RalphH