I don't think that it's any surprise that anglers, and particularly in this case recreational anglers, are any strangers to environmental causes or any strangers to conservation of the resource. That's been the case for well over a century.
At the Ministry of Natural Resources in Ontario we now have two forms of licensing. We have a sport fishing licence and we have a conservation fishing licence, which we strongly support. With the conservation fishing licence you take less, you put back more, and it's something that anglers and hunters strongly supported and pushed for. We recognize that the resources are finite. There is a limit to it and as conservationists we want to make sure that resource is sustainable today and for the future.
That's why catch and release has become such a growing phenomenon, if you want to call it that, because everybody recognizes that if you want those species there for the future you better start protecting them now.