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Post by jbwpg on Jun 17, 2004 1:29:13 GMT -5
I think commercial fishing is posting a negative impact on sport fishing by excessively depleteing unprotected fisheries in various areas. More control/regulations should be placed on commercial fishing to help protect fisheries presently harmed by commercial fishing, at the same time helping preserve quality sport fishing in Canada.
::)What do you think?
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Post by LarryZawislak on Jun 17, 2004 18:26:48 GMT -5
There are many competing interests but the reality is native and sports and commercial fishing must all be controlled as part of the overall equation - failure to control all aspects of the harvest can be devastating - on Lake Nipissing in Ontario the Ministry for years tried to re-establish a past famous walleye fishery - and they were successful - native harvest destroyed things overnight to a point where the people involved said we're back to the drawing board where we were - and LOTW is getting similarly hit right now - and at The Pas it matters not if you lower the limits on sportsfisherman when you see native fishers with 50+ walleye on ropes taken with sportsfishing tackle - and I've also seen sportsfishing alone destroy many a lake in SK by the foolish over-harvest of large spawners and the over-harvest of too many fish generally - and you only need to look at the west coast steelhead and coho to know what commercial fishing can do - all three interersts must be controlled - the advantage that sportsfifhing has is it generates a lot of tourism money and sportsfisherman are willing to pursue their sport with low and protective harvest rates or even no harvest C&R rates - Larry
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