>>1467872Here's the thing that really bothers me about a maximum possession limit. I'll use crappie as an example.
In my home state, it is illegal to keep more than ten crappie at any given time. That's not a daily catch limit; it's a maximum possession limit, like you said. Here's where it gets fucked up:
If I go fishing this weekend and catch ten, eat three, and freeze seven, the next weekend I can only keep three more.
But if I have the week off and I'm a fatass, I could catch ten every morning, eat all ten, and catch ten the next day.
Somehow it is better in the eyes of conservation enforcement for me to catch 70 in a week than to catch more than 13 over the course of two weeks.
If I fish weekly and put a total of 30 crappie, among other species, in the freezer through the spring and summer, I could go to jail because I stocked back some fish for the winter, even though I never kept more than ten any given day. I believe this is deliberately left ambiguous in the writing of such laws.
I'm not trying to change the law or even argue the law in this post. I'm just pointing out a glaring flaw.
