One old fella and one flatty is not going to deplete the worlds fish stocks. Over harvesting everything in the ocean causes that. A story told to me by a fisheries inspector pretty much sums it up. He had recently spent a night on a trawler down home to monitor ther by catch. He said over 1500 juvenile mulloway were killed in the process of harvesting prawns that night. Thats just one species multiply that by the days worked and there is the answer to why fish stocks are in some areas are low. Commercial fisherman need to earn a living (they have bills like everyone else). Non fishing people want to eat fish, recreational fisherman want to catch fish. Everyone has an impact on the fish stocks (my trips of late have had no effect on fish stocks lol). Maybe we should look at the fisherman who target the big breeding flatties and brag about their huge daily catches of the fish not the old fella with one small flatty. Just my thoughts mojo