I think the DEP guys put a lot of time into making in the plans and look at anglers concern. I copied the links in from the end of the previous page:

ideas behind tropy lakes by DEP
http://www.dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/fishing/fishinfo/bassbroc.pdf

here is the dEP bass managment plan. This is a really good read as it talks about what goes behind the limits
http://www.dep.state.ct.us/burnatr/fishing/geninfo/bassplan.pdf


Is it just for conservation that the fish are released? .. or do people just not want to eat them with all the heatlh problems associated with them? Alot of the poor dont care, but how many of them are really reaching their limits anyway? Basically teh manageemtn plan above says that few anglers reach their creel limit anyway but they did show that 1% of people kept their limit in 87'. I do think that number will be more lower today due to Hg problems... ahh ... wasting time, its an interesting read though. Anyway, Ill just say i do support more limits but have no problem if people keep their limit of fish to eat as i have faith in the DEP guys to make a good decision on optimum yeild that represents the CT angler.