Small mouth are supported by a small group of small groups. Tourism and the Missouri fishing industry is supported statewide for its financial support to our economy. The mdc being a state tax funded entity must appease the majority as they pay their salaries. As we have all duly noted they always seem to want to do the right thing but don't always have the backing to do so. I think this step is a good foot in the door towards creating small mouth management needs awareness statewide. You are going to have people seeing new regs and signage, and they are going to wonder why. then they will learn why and will probably be ok with it as it will mean bigger fish in areas where they have already been trying to create better fishing. If anything it will.push meat fishers down or up stream away from our big fish. Not to say that there won't be a few poachers but overall it's at least an attempt to get the ball rolling on small stream brownie management improvement.