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Saturday, September 7th, 2024

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Saturday, September 7th, 2024

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Deconstructing catch-and-release fishing

Children display a natural aversion to killing small, colorful fish. The columnist proposes that’s a healthy starting point for cultivating respect for wild things, with allowance for taking life under the right circumstances. (Photo by Ben Moyer)

Catch-and-release fishing can be a deep subject, really. We have come to accept catch and release as a norm of modern fishing, and it certainly has its valid place. But hard thinkers on natural resource topics as respected as Ted Kerasote have debated the practice in writing, on ethical and ecological grounds.

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