Catch and Release

From Bush's "Rummy OUT!" conference yesterday. Isn't this a fishing term?

I would hope Republicans have recognized that we've taken very strong security measures to address one aspect of comprehensive immigration reform. And I was talking to Secretary Chertoff today; he thinks that these measures we're taking are beginning to have measurable effects, and that catch and release has virtually been ended over the past couple of months. And that's positive.

Seems kind of gross to be applying this term to human beings.