01-30-2009, 04:32 AM
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] Thanks for your thoughts Curt69! I wish that Ririe could be poisoned out to eradicate the walleye. Technically it could-the problem is the local natives in South America make more money picking coca leaves for illegal cocaine production than getting paid for digging derris root which rotenone is made from. Pure economics. Because of this rotenone used to poison out lakes etc., is in tight supply and quite costly to buy and use. Fish and Game is already crying the blues about money problems. Also because Ririe is so deep (around 230 to 245 feet deep near dam) it would be difficult to get the poison down deep enough to get a thorough kill and requires prohibitively more rotenone than the department could afford. They already have to save two or three years for much smaller pojects as it is. Personally I think this act of bucket biology is equivalent to sabatage of our world class fisheries by someone selfish and not too bright.
DeeCee
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] Thanks for your thoughts Curt69! I wish that Ririe could be poisoned out to eradicate the walleye. Technically it could-the problem is the local natives in South America make more money picking coca leaves for illegal cocaine production than getting paid for digging derris root which rotenone is made from. Pure economics. Because of this rotenone used to poison out lakes etc., is in tight supply and quite costly to buy and use. Fish and Game is already crying the blues about money problems. Also because Ririe is so deep (around 230 to 245 feet deep near dam) it would be difficult to get the poison down deep enough to get a thorough kill and requires prohibitively more rotenone than the department could afford. They already have to save two or three years for much smaller pojects as it is. Personally I think this act of bucket biology is equivalent to sabatage of our world class fisheries by someone selfish and not too bright.DeeCee
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