Filosophy of Physhing #31

[Mike G]

“Catch-and -release may be good conservation, but it is ethically ambiguous. Between the man who kills and eats a fish and the man who derives pleasure from a trout’s panicked struggles, it’s worth asking who occupies the moral high ground. Or if there is any.”

 

Ted Leeson, the Habit of Rivers, p. 114.

[tjtroester]

i will choose to err on the side of comservation. timothy

[John Gillio]

I have been known to err on both sides. Selective harvest may well serve the fishery and the palate.