It's more sensible. It's very easy to enforce. And it's mandatory.
I don't see why you would V-notch anything over five inches, in a way. Well, I see it here now, because you've landed them. But if you put a female.... Lately we've thought in our district of saying any female over five inches and any male over six inches have to be returned to the water.
I don't have the statistics with me, but we did the catch rates on those lobsters last fall, district-wide. Fundy North, our association, did that. And definitely you would be returning...not a huge percentage, but quite a few large lobsters to the water to be a spawning population to keep this fishery healthy. We're catching more lobsters now on the first day than I caught in a season 25 years ago.