We can only hope that is the case! Any sheephead caught in my boat does not live! Comon sense tells me that when almost every walleye caught is kept and sheephead are released which one will thrive!! Me and my sons spent a week at Port Clinton around July 4th we fished alot and went every where from the islands to north of west sister and caught sheephead by the hundreds and killed every one of them but only caught 10 walleye. If you love walleye kill the sheephead!!!