Fishing Regulations Quotes

People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

No one understands the impacts of shifting fish stocks more than commercial and recreational fishermen in my district.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean.

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.

One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to break.

Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.

A great many sportsmen have urged me to support this bill. It is hard for me to understand the interest of sportsmen in pistols. I myself have fished and hunted a great deal. I have a deep interest in outdoor sports and the various associations which foster them, but it is common knowledge, of course, that fishermen never use a pistol and hunters practically never use a pistol... [even for] theoretical self-protection, the value of a revolver is very problematical..

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

And one thing I can be proud of is we have a 'Come and Try Fishing' day every year. And there's 20 venues throughout the state, and see, these thousands of kids who've never been fishing come along.

How could we restrain our fishermen, the boldest men alive, from fishing in prohibited places?

Teach as an old fishing guide takes out a beginner.

If commercial fishing were excluded from large areas of the sea, the total catch would be likely, paradoxically, to rise, due to what biologists call the spillover effect.

I thought without a doubt I would be a fisherman.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

I would just like my children to be able to eat fish when they grow up. Now, I don't think there's anything controversial about that.

Fishing has been part of our culture since we landed here.

It's harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.