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Rob Brownfield
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There have been several pictures recently in the "weeklies" that have caused me some concern.
One is a picture in both AT and AM of a guy holding what can only be described as the worst looking, most spawned out Sea Trout I have every seen. He is holding it by grasping into the gill area, not like a Pike angler would, but actually holding it with fingers going up into the lower part of the gills. AM mentioned that "he put it back alive as it was out of season." but AT did not.
Another picture in AM is of a guy holding a 22 pound pike by the tip of the jaw, standing, and holding the fish a couple of feet above the ground. Although they say that a fish should not be held in this way.
The last type of picture is the kind where an angler has several hundred pounds of carp laid out in a keepnet, dorsal fines all split, covered in grass, mud etc.
My question is this...Should the angling magazines reject photos that show bad fish handling, or should the pictures be included, but with a "you should not do it like this" caption, or is it ok to show pictures of any kind?
One is a picture in both AT and AM of a guy holding what can only be described as the worst looking, most spawned out Sea Trout I have every seen. He is holding it by grasping into the gill area, not like a Pike angler would, but actually holding it with fingers going up into the lower part of the gills. AM mentioned that "he put it back alive as it was out of season." but AT did not.
Another picture in AM is of a guy holding a 22 pound pike by the tip of the jaw, standing, and holding the fish a couple of feet above the ground. Although they say that a fish should not be held in this way.
The last type of picture is the kind where an angler has several hundred pounds of carp laid out in a keepnet, dorsal fines all split, covered in grass, mud etc.
My question is this...Should the angling magazines reject photos that show bad fish handling, or should the pictures be included, but with a "you should not do it like this" caption, or is it ok to show pictures of any kind?