Colombia Supreme Court Bans Catch and Release

That is a head-scratcher.

In Colomibia, same as anywhere else, I suspect you can follow a money trail to the answer. Somebody who doesn't benefit from fishing tourism (probably someone who profits from dead fish and/or an absence of rules) seems to have out-spent those who do.

Here in WA, I sense a similar ruling may be coming down before too long, financed largely by our Treaty Tribes, who have long decried catch and release fishing as "playing with our food" and are recently enjoying an increasing amount of influence over state fishery management.

Commercial interests in general are opposed to catch and release, because it allows people to fish in places they can't. If they can't profit off a resource, they'll be damned if anyone else gets to use it otherwise.
 
Shad said:
That is a head-scratcher.

In Colomibia, same as anywhere else, I suspect you can follow a money trail to the answer. Somebody who doesn't benefit from fishing tourism (probably someone who profits from dead fish and/or an absence of rules) seems to have out-spent those who do.

Here in WA, I sense a similar ruling may be coming down before too long, financed largely by our Treaty Tribes, who have long decried catch and release fishing as "playing with our food" and are recently enjoying an increasing amount of influence over state fishery management.

Commercial interests in general are opposed to catch and release, because it allows people to fish in places they can't. If they can't profit off a resource, they'll be damned if anyone else gets to use it otherwise.
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that was my first thought....though I haven't looked seriously into any of this.
 
The alternative might be no fishing at all. If there's concerns for conservation of fish in an area than no fishing should be permitted by anyone. But in areas where C&R can occur, access to those opportunities promote a greater understanding of them, adds to the economy and carries on the social values of fishing for recreation as opposed to fishing for food or livelihood. I think we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing.
 
But, you can have great “blizzards” down there!!
And it should be pretty pure stuff too.
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Shad said:
Here in WA, I sense a similar ruling may be coming down before too long, financed largely by our Treaty Tribes, who have long decried catch and release fishing as "playing with our food" and are recently enjoying an increasing amount of influence over state fishery management.
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It's a race to see if they can do it before all the fish are gone!

I'm just happy to sit on my non-tortured cow-skin couch.
 
As mentioned this global movement would seem to be driven not just by animal rights activists, but by commercial and indigenous fishing interests as well.

Unfortunately the well-meaning, but out of touch, animal rights movement is buying "the don't play with your food" idea hook line and sinker. They might not agree with killing fish for sustenance, but I suspect they tolerate it if it forms alliances towards their long term goal of stopping all fishing.

If this is the case, once sport fishing has been eliminated, commercial and indigenous fishing will be the next targets. And likely in that order.

Sadly, those ecosystems, and the economies they support, that are currently being protected by C&R sport fishing, will degrade rapidly. But this may be a necessary sacrifice Colombia must pay to show this lunacy for what it is.
 
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SilverFly said:
As mentioned this global movement would seem to be driven not just by animal rights activists, but by commercial and indigenous fishing interests as well.

Unfortunately the well-meaning, but out of touch, animal rights movement is buying "the don't play with your food" idea hook line and sinker. They might not agree with killing fish for sustenance, but I suspect they tolerate it if it forms alliances towards their long term goal of stopping all fishing.

If this is the case, once sport fishing has been eliminated, commercial and indigenous fishing will be the next targets. And likely in that order.

Sadly, those ecosystems, and the economies they support, that are currently being protected by C&R sport fishing, will degrade rapidly. But this may be a necessary sacrifice Colombia must pay to show this lunacy for what it is.
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I keep a stringer of Dorado for cover so I can still fish.
 
What I do not understand about native fishing is how can it even be slightly accepted to this day within the tribe. Same tribes that needed outrageous emergency federal funding to remove landslides for members on dialysis during this last winter, they have normal housing, excessive western medicine, roads/transportation, lets not talk about the pollution on the rez. BUT WAIT we need to net fish in a channel setting to keep us connected.:mad: The pandering is getting old and has consequences.
 
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Divad said:
News flash...just about every civilization netted fish at some point. Difference is almost all noticed it was not sustainable as populations increase, uhhh drrrrrr. Whats that, avg. native american family size is > caucasian, wait and life expectancy is equal now. Who would of guessed o_O
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What civilizations have given up netting fish?
 
Your misspelling of "Colombia" had me nervous there for a second.

If I ever make it to Colombia, fishing is the last thing I'll be doing.
 
I've made a study in earnest and for the life of me I've found you simply can not fix stupid. Can't do it.
 
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I've made a study in earnest and for the life of me I've found you simply can not fix stupid. Can't do it.
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Yea...but everybody knows Earnest is a lost cause. Always has been.
 
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