12-16-2010, 04:42 AM
I'd rather pay a stamp for a fish that might survive in mead, rather than a fish that is merely a quick snack for hordes of hungry stripers. I still dont understand why they stock mead with trout. Expensive hatcheries, expensive transport, man hours, pure poundage of food, national land usage, fossil fuels used.....
And there is no true measureable population of trout in Lake Mead. Sounds to me like a program that is unsuccessful.
My view on the "Lets Have a Stocking Program" debate is:
1) Stock a Beneficial Species. We know that threadfin shad are beneficial to Lake Mead. They stocked the lake with threadfin before, they can do it again.
2) Create Artificial Cover / Spawning Habitat, and lots of it, near stocking sites and sutrrounding areas.
If NDOW redirects their fundage from trout-stocking Mead to those two ideas, I think we'd be ok.
AND, if they do a mass shad stock when they give Mead Powells water, we would have a solid spawn.
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And there is no true measureable population of trout in Lake Mead. Sounds to me like a program that is unsuccessful.
My view on the "Lets Have a Stocking Program" debate is:
1) Stock a Beneficial Species. We know that threadfin shad are beneficial to Lake Mead. They stocked the lake with threadfin before, they can do it again.
2) Create Artificial Cover / Spawning Habitat, and lots of it, near stocking sites and sutrrounding areas.
If NDOW redirects their fundage from trout-stocking Mead to those two ideas, I think we'd be ok.
AND, if they do a mass shad stock when they give Mead Powells water, we would have a solid spawn.
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