Yes. When the local club kind of got started, we had a lot of trouble with the local sport fishermen. Basically, they thought we were killing everything we caught. They didn't realize that a trap-net allows you to pick the type of fish you have. It allows you to pick the size of fish. For example, a pickerel trap-net fished right out of Sarnia, in 20 feet of water...there's a slot sized for the pickerel, and anything under 14 inches goes back alive. For the whitefish, anything under 18 inches goes back alive. With perch, anything under eight inches goes back alive.
We're allowed to pick and choose the type of fish we want. Smallmouth bass goes back alive; it's a sport fish.
The local sport club didn't realize that we were selective in the type of fish we kept. They thought we just killed everything.
When they were able to come on our boats and realize that we went by a quota system, that we didn't take all the small pickerel home, that we didn't kill everything...once they realized that, we got along very well.