01-17-2013, 09:00 PM
[quote The_Red_Leaker][quote harlin]
This is why we pay fisheries professionals to manage our fisheries. Believe it or not, the decisions they make reflect what the majority of anglers want. There is no evidence that anybody voted on or agreed upon the completely arbitrary introduction of perch in fish lake.[/quote]
Can you explain the process(es) the professionals have in place to find out what the majority of anglers want and furthermore if they are effective?[/quote]
I can think of three ways: 1) creel surveys 2) open houses 3) RAC meetings. The other ways are much less formal and harder to document (email, telephone calls, etc.)
According to a creel survey completed in 2010, only 13% of anglers went to fish lake to specifically target perch. Which was significantly up from previous years...I would guess that that number has possibly risen slightly since then. My beef is that it seems that the other 87% are either targeting trout or they don't care what they catch. It is
to me that the majority of fishermen--at least according to creel surveys--are experiencing a gradually worse fishery.
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This is why we pay fisheries professionals to manage our fisheries. Believe it or not, the decisions they make reflect what the majority of anglers want. There is no evidence that anybody voted on or agreed upon the completely arbitrary introduction of perch in fish lake.[/quote]
Can you explain the process(es) the professionals have in place to find out what the majority of anglers want and furthermore if they are effective?[/quote]
I can think of three ways: 1) creel surveys 2) open houses 3) RAC meetings. The other ways are much less formal and harder to document (email, telephone calls, etc.)
According to a creel survey completed in 2010, only 13% of anglers went to fish lake to specifically target perch. Which was significantly up from previous years...I would guess that that number has possibly risen slightly since then. My beef is that it seems that the other 87% are either targeting trout or they don't care what they catch. It is
to me that the majority of fishermen--at least according to creel surveys--are experiencing a gradually worse fishery.[signature]