quote:Originally posted by fishman69er
Well after scrollin through the post ...and some of the most ridiculous remarks that i have ever seen ...to make my point with out goin to much into a rant as i have been known to do, i think the only chance the sport fishery has is enhancement, its funny how nobody suggested that...
quote:Originally posted by Red Monster
Here's an idea: How about figuring a better way to connect catching salmon with enhancing their numbers? A start might be to actually spend the money collected for salmon tags on salmon enhancement. It's my understanding that the Feds simply take the money from salmon tags into general revenue.
quote:Originally posted by fishman69er
Well, to tell the truth i didnt read one of the links that have been recently posted because i know exactly what they say, one says, FISH FARM BAD
quote:Originally posted by Alexander Pope
To err is human, to rant divine
quote:Originally posted by totally tyee
Well folks, I was sitting here doing some thinking about the never endeing BAD NEWS that we keep hearing over and over again about our precious west coast salmon stocks.
With so many stakeholders such as the commercial fishing industry, the sport fishing industry, the native fisheries, and several others there is a constant pounding on the fish stocks. Not to mention the terrible weather that is washing out the reds in the rivers.
I thought I would pose a question to you guys. I know there are so many other factors that contribute much more to the demise of the stocks but for the purpose of answering this question lets just think about the sportfishing aspect of things. And lets just pick Chinook and focus on them.
Lets face it, our precious salmon stocks aren't doing so well.
Which of the following options would you support as sportfishers to help sustain and/or re-build our salmon stocks?
A) Close the winter spring fishery until stocks can improve
B) Go back to the 1 under / 1 over rule
C) Close all retention in and near Chinook spawning rivers
D) Lower day and poss. limits to 1 and 2
E) No retention of Chinooks for 1 year (similar to previous coho)
F) No change, everything is fine
What do you guys think? hopefully this can spark some discussion over these sad winter months.
TT
quote:Originally posted by tyee2112
I can see a lot of dead 40" chinook going back in the water after being netted and mesured.In barclay sound i have seen so many dead chinook go back in the water with that one over one under rule.Its like DFO puts no thought into their decisions sometime.
what i meant by 40" was people bringing them in the net and then throwing them back trying for that one just a little bit biggerquote:Originally posted by fishin_magician
quote:Originally posted by tyee2112
I can see a lot of dead 40" chinook going back in the water after being netted and mesured.In barclay sound i have seen so many dead chinook go back in the water with that one over one under rule.Its like DFO puts no thought into their decisions sometime.
I said 42 inches, not 40 inches...
I picked 42 inches, as that puts most any fish over 34 lbs back in the water for mandatory release, and that's assuming a relative average.
Honestly...why kill a 35 when you can take a gorgeous 24 lb spring?
quote:Originally posted by tyee2112
what i meant by 40" was people bringing them in the net and then throwing them back trying for that one just a little bit biggerquote:Originally posted by fishin_magician
quote:Originally posted by tyee2112
I can see a lot of dead 40" chinook going back in the water after being netted and mesured.In barclay sound i have seen so many dead chinook go back in the water with that one over one under rule.Its like DFO puts no thought into their decisions sometime.
I said 42 inches, not 40 inches...
I picked 42 inches, as that puts most any fish over 34 lbs back in the water for mandatory release, and that's assuming a relative average.
Honestly...why kill a 35 when you can take a gorgeous 24 lb spring?
seen it happen a lot with the over under rule.