The reason I am interested in this scientific data is....I want to see how they could possibly prove or document that switching from 4 poles to 3 poles is going to take pressure off the fish...all these proposals they said was to reduce pressure.....I can understand how lowering the limit from 20 to 15 would reduce pressure......but its looks to me like leaveing the 12 inch rule in place would releve more pressure than lowering to to 11 inches. And the number of poles shouldn't have anything at all to do with pressure. I am OK with all of it though except for the pole limit.....that just dosen't make sense.