Question: Why can't we do one and done as some have suggested in other years?

Well conceptually it sounds ok but in reality it is full of problems. First it is usually a bay fisher who puts this idea in play as they fish the boat as in marine fisheries. In river you one rod one fisher so how it impacts your fishing is different. Next is few people would comply and it almost unenforceable. Think of it this way, your fishing and at about two in the afternoon you get a Coho to the boat, your likely to keep it. Now your fishing with your two kids and you get a modest sized Coho to the boat at 7:30 in the morning and what will you do? 99% of us will turn it loose!

Another example is one and done does not reduce by much ( it will some ) the total impacts because of 100 fish caught the % of fishers that would catch two or three decreases substantially. So the reduction in catch numbers is not nearly as great as one would think and coupled with the almost complete inability to enforce the rule makes a poor tool to limit impacts. Got to admit it sounds good or not depending on the fisher / location.