People seem to get their panties in a wad either way. I explain what I am told by biologists and it becomes an issue of political correctness and that I am against war veterans (my roommate is a Iraq war vet, 173rd Airborne). I am just trying to shed light on why this has been done, and there is a biological study backing why things were done.

Its same as deer in Iowa, non resident tags are hard to come by, and that is because the deer numbers in that state take a beating every year during hunting season. We still want people to be able to fish the corp lakes(and travel to fish them), so instead of making it an outrageously high price, we limit the number of fish kept and fishing pressure put on these lakes, thus preserving the fishery from being "fished into the ground."