Posted on 06/18/2015 11:33:01 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The problem is you can't micro control the fishing industry, and to their credit, the respective state DNR's have done a fine job in enhancing the walleye, the salmon, and the steelhead fishing in their respective states.
If one species is diminishing it's due to the predatory influences of the others.
Despite their goals, there is no way man (aka the DNR) can control the outcomes of their good intentions......
> I believe you are referring to walleye’s relative the yellow and blue perch.
I know what the perch are like. The walleye is in the same family, but 18 to 30 inches in length. They sometimes call them yellow pike or blue pike.
Then there is this:
It was posted here a few days ago I think.
For something on zebra mussels go to 36:20 of this youtube video;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWeYa0_5bc
Silt brings nutrients into the waters - walleye, like other fish, ultimately depend on the flora and the flora depend on nutrients.
Be careful with the stats. When I lived in Seattle, the econazis closed down all steelhead fishing in all the waters from the Cascades westward. This because they claimed the numbers were so low.
But they were only counting the “native” fish in the saltwater. As if there is some great nobility to native vs. stocked.
If they’d tallied those that had been stocked, the numbers were fine.
They just wanted to exercise their power.
I say now what I said then: “Second generation IS native.” You stock them one year, they spawn the next and those critters are as native as fish in those waters 150 years ago.
Always good advice because we know that "figures don't lie but liars can figure."
I was talking to one of my grandsons about the invasive zebra mussel awhile back. Their “story” is a very good teaching tool.
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