Re: Balckfish Dead or Alive
That's the thing, tog are cursed with a robust constitution, they are easy to keep alive and hence you see them crammed in tanks (often via illegal potting) in markets across the region. Luckily for us, that same hardy spirit means you can catch and release the same tog multiple times...they possess the very qualities that make a sustainable trophy fishery possible: very low mortality rate, returning to the same rock year after year, and living an incredibly long time.
Next time you reel in that 8, 9, 10+ lber, please consider taking a great photo and letting him/her swim free, regardless of the season! The big ones don't taste that good anyway, 3/4lbers taste MUCh better, and you can catch the old guy/gal again next year, when they're just a little bigger. A #10+ tog is over 20 years old, many are much older than that, and of all the fish that swim our local waters they are by far the most intelligent and imo the most intriguing by far.
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