What do you guys think?

Did you post that on AOF aswell?

The commerical fisherman can make a mess.

  I found that on AOF.  People shouldn't be allowed to do anything like that.  It should be illegal.  Kinda thinking about sending those picks to PETA or something.

Sending them to PETA is a bad idea, it was discussed on that website aswell.

It is illegal and I believe they did end up going out to clean the mess.

It is quite a disturbing picture for sure.

  Why would that be a bad idea?  The more attention concerning this fishing practice, the more paranoid they would be to keep doing it.

PETA has a campaign against recreational fisherman and would just use this photo as a way to smear all of us (recreational and commercial).

To those folks it makes no difference, they view us as all the same.

Any propaganda they can get, they will use.

I had folks from PETA on stealhead opener stand in the streams where we were fishing.  They were throwing rocks in the pools spooking the fish, cursing at us, yelling at us telling us that we were hurting the fish and that they have feelings.

  If you ever see them do that again you should tell them that they are hurting the fish more than you are.  Say the concusion tha rocks are making will hurt the fish and disorientate them.  As for the burbot, I am thinking about sending in a letter to get them classified as a game fish.

Just looking at page 48 in the 2010 Alberta Guide to Sportfishing Regulations.  It shows burbot as a sportfish.  How can commercial fisheries get away with culling them at Slave Lake if they are classed as a sportfish in Alberta.