03-26-2013, 04:10 PM
[quote flygoddess]Maybe closing it for certain months so that is isn't quite the fishing in a bucket?[/quote]
But -- would that help the population of walleye? My understanding is that anglers are not harvesting enough walleye? So, opening it up to fishing that time of year certainly increases mortality and lowers the population, which satisfies the biology. Isn't that the objective? The social issues need to be addressed. This can be done through two means:
1. Education
2. Law Enforcement
[quote TheScout]Why is it that every angler (I use the word every very loosely here) who catches a wiper, it goes right into the cooler to go home, yet when they catch a walleye the numbers are showing that they are only harvesting about 25% of what is being caught? [/quote]
That's actually a very simple question to answer. It has already been stated as an issue: EDUCATION
Anglers need to understand the "what's" and the "why's".
The DWR tries -- just read DoWhatWeCan's posts. The problem is that there is a very large group of anglers that simply do NOT want to learn. They want to do what they want, and complain about all the rest. We've got numerous threads right now concerning this issue (Willard) that illustrate this point. Lack of education on the subject.
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But -- would that help the population of walleye? My understanding is that anglers are not harvesting enough walleye? So, opening it up to fishing that time of year certainly increases mortality and lowers the population, which satisfies the biology. Isn't that the objective? The social issues need to be addressed. This can be done through two means:
1. Education
2. Law Enforcement
[quote TheScout]Why is it that every angler (I use the word every very loosely here) who catches a wiper, it goes right into the cooler to go home, yet when they catch a walleye the numbers are showing that they are only harvesting about 25% of what is being caught? [/quote]
That's actually a very simple question to answer. It has already been stated as an issue: EDUCATION
Anglers need to understand the "what's" and the "why's".
The DWR tries -- just read DoWhatWeCan's posts. The problem is that there is a very large group of anglers that simply do NOT want to learn. They want to do what they want, and complain about all the rest. We've got numerous threads right now concerning this issue (Willard) that illustrate this point. Lack of education on the subject.
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