kwackkillncrew wrote:ha you think the mn reg book is hard to decipher look at the fish regs for just the kenai river up here! do you not think limits on fish are necessary? what if the bros from carlos avery moved in on your lake and started killin everything you worked so hard for and wiped it out?
It'd come back in a handful of years.
When you pull fish out of a body of water?
It makes room for more fish to come up in that body of water.
To a certain degree, thinking you can stockpile fish is dumb.
And Newsflash: there are already Carlos Avery types that snowmobile onto "my private pond" every winter.....they're white hmongs....will literally leave with contractor bags full of crappies. I don't give a shit since they don't fish in front of the cabin.
I could honestly care less about people catching and keeping fish.....I think it's a good thing in most ways, especially if they're keeping everything they catch as they come and not being "size/slot" selective.
It's not possible to fish out any body of water. Look at Red. The natives had enough nets in the fukcer to go to the moon and back like a dozen times.....still couldn't fish it out. The DNR had absolutely no need to stock it. The lake would've bounced back on it's own....the only thing stocking did was speed up the process by 3-5 years.
The first big and massive year class after they stocked Red?
20% of it was from natural reproduction. Look it up. They dyed all the fry they stocked and 20% of the first big year class after they closed the lake to walleye harvest wasn't dyed....it was from walleyes in the lake reproducing on their own.
The second big year class from stocking fry was 40% natural reproduction.....might have been 60%, can't remember exactly.
The third big year class from stocking?
Never fukcing happened because the lake had already recovered on it's own.
A lake/river/body of water that's got a high capacity/capability for producing fish will ALWAYS produce fish.
If it stops producing fish like it used to?
It sure as fukc ain't from over-fishing.....because the most overharvested and abused resource ever.....Red Lake....still bounced back on it's own once they pulled the ungodly amount of nets out.....ON IT'S OWN.
There were literally enough nets to go to the moon and back a dozen times........
.....and yet you guys think several thousand dudes dangling a hook and line is going to fukc shit up?
With the possible exception of really....only Mille Lacs, and maybe a handful of other big lakes that can get pounded when the forage drops and the bite is on (which is a good thing to pull as many fish out as possible when that happens)......
Unless you're talking shit like the ultra-rare and sensitive species like cutthroat trout out west in streams where pissing in them might alter the pH enough to fukc with them....
Sportfishing DOES NOT HURT fisheries.
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