Catch n release is becoming more common these days among many fishos and I applaud this, bag limits need to be re addressed , in NSW you can take one marlin of each species per person per day, too me a Marlin should be caught, tagged take all the pics you like and let them go, the average fella who wants a feed of schnapper or flathead has no need for 5 of this or 40 of that in a day, multiply these fishos by tens of millions world wide and off course fisheries will suffer, they closed the gem fish out for commercial boats but many got around this by targetting mirror dory that swim at the same depth as gemfish , do some research and look into the ages of some of the species caught, some can be 200 years old and dont mature until there 50 , its us ultimately that need to curb our habits of filling freezers with fish, take what you need not what you want, the unscrupulous types of rec fishos if you can call them fishos take everything from tiddler to the big breeders, I blame the asians as there diets are mainly fish these guys send there commercial long liners and net draggers to the far flung reaches of the earth million upon millions of tons every year the oceans can not sustain this, why these countrys that rely on fish dont invest in aqua culture and grow there own fish off shore like we do Tuna , Salmon etc or these countrys are going to have to find something else to eat other then fish, in the not too distant future we will see many fisheries closed as the stocks will be dangerously low and the defence for es may be called in to deal with poachers the old fashioned way