DWR ----says keep fish

[utahgolf]

[quote wormandbobber]The catch-22 that many biologists face and fishermen don't understand: as soon as a fishery grows large fish, fishermen want special regulations to protect them. The problem is that the water grew the big fish without the regulations; then, once the regulations are put in place to protect the big fish, the big fish disappear because there are too many mouths to feed for the available food. Yuba is the prime example....as soon as fishermen began to learn about the numerous pike in the reservoir and as soon as trophy catches began to be common, what did fishermen want? Special regulations to protect them....and what did the DWR advise? To keep fish....

....moral of the story? Be careful what you ask for![/quote]

But as soon as a fishery starts growing big fish, the word gets out and pressure increases exponentially. So saying current regulations grew the big fish so keep it the same, really isn't the whole truth if you don't factor in pressure before and after. Yuba is a prime example! No one was really fishing yuba, yuba starts growing big and plentiful fish under very little pressure. Then the word gets out, boats are everywhere and pike being pulled out like crazy. The fishing down there is way down and I won't attribute that to just the limit increase but the tons of extra pressure I believe affected the fishing big time... I don't think you can compare fishing regs and the result it has on fish size/quantity, unless you also factor in pressure of that body of water before and after...
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