My concern for the smaller boats is space. As the rules are now, you cannot keep an observer's limit. If that rule continues, then a team will have to have 4 team members as well as an obsever on board in order to keep 12 fish and enter the long box competition. That is alot of people on board for smaller boats with limited space for people and all of the necessary gear. It was nice under the old sytem in the AM division when only 9 fish were allowed because a 4 man team could compete by having 3 members fish while another acted as an observer. I think the cuurent long box limit of 12 fish puts a real burden on teams with small boats that would have ordinarily fished in the amature division. With these rules they will not only have to fish out of a cramped boat, but they will have to come up with another team member as well. I think that is asking alot. If they really want to have a fair competition, then they need to either reduce the long box limit to 9 or allow teams with less than 4 fishing members to keep their observer's limit. If this problem isn't addressed, then the big boats will have a huge advantage in the long box competition.