Lots of guys selling catfish

[SLP]

sorry, but this is an immoral way to make a living, and how do you know how hard it is?

That may be, but I generally don't judge someone as immoral and support regulations which could hurt their livelihood without a lot of evidence and facts, that's my only point.

As far as how hard they work, my only clue is from seeing them on KY Afield, and IMO they worked hard, but I admit I don't know first hand, maybe it is an easy way to make a living and it just looked like hard work.

[restornator]

That may be, but I generally don't judge someone as immoral and support regulations which could hurt their livelihood without a lot of evidence and facts, that's my only point.

As far as how hard they work, my only clue is from seeing them on KY Afield, and IMO they worked hard, but I admit I don't know first hand, maybe it is an easy way to make a living and it just looked like hard work.

I've seen that vid, the hardest or least enjoyable part of that job is mending their gill nets.

[kyriverblues]

I'm sorry if a person might have to throw back some fish that are over the size limit, but they can still fish. Nobody is saying shut down commercial fishing. That being said commercial fisherman might have to change some things they fish for. I had to do different work when the place I worked closed. They can still fish but with different regulations. Commercial fishing takes a good number of potential trophy catfish out of the water as I saw this weekend on Ky Afield. The rules have to be for everyone not just a few for it to work. I think there are plenty of other fish for the commercial fisherman to fish for. If this was bass or crappie we were talking about I'm sure more people would be wanting tougher rules to protect them. Things must change or there ain't going to be any big cats for any of us to catch. That is just the way life is.

[FlyLie]