Quote Originally Posted by john h View Post
in response to your statement that each person should decide what size ish they should eat.... the reason they have limits is so they dont get overfished cause not every person is respnsible to take only what they need, and also most llsize limits are to give fish a chance to spawn or you will have no fish at all or have tp pay 3times as much restocking every lake in the state.. seriously think bout half the stuff you say. lke i said if you want to eliminate unnecessary positions start with half your congressmen. i dont know what else to say but if there were not biologist in employment the fishing and hunting you enjoy now probably wouldnt exist at the current level cause without size and bag limits people would just keep everyfish they catch...if you support keeping all you catch then you sir are not a sportsman...size limits and creel limits arent used to raise trophy fish.. they are to help keep fisheries stable by allowing fish to spawn and not be over harvested.
also even with these limits most lakes that are popular still need to be stocked to supplement the spawn, and you do neeed someone who can decide what type and how many fish should be stocked so it doesnt overpopulate a lake so all you have is stunted fish or a species gets stocked someplace where it would be detrimental to fish populations...if you think anyfish should live anywhere i got a ton of asian carp, snakeheads, lampreys, and gobies i can ship to you.
as for the machines sitting idle and needing money to be ran.. you can thank your politicians for 4 dollars a gallon gas which is probably the reason they arent being ran, or are yougonna blame biologist for the high costs of gas or the fact funds from licensing get diverted from non sportsman related activities.
People should be able to catch them a mess of fish( of any size)And kept them to eat.....Without the government telling them anything.........No humane should be made a criminal because of his or her's fish eating choices!!!........We need to privatize most if not all our state needs for biologist.......so we can get better fish and game habitat...Its been pointed out how little they (biologist & game wardens get payed that work for state Agency's)they get payed for a important job....Hopefully in the private sector the pay will be better as will the demands to produce habit.....What can you aspect from any man who go's to work every day knowing he is getting paid half as much as his job is minimally worth..Its the State Agency who do the degrading......And i for one want it to stop....I want way better results for our tax dollars that go to fish and game.....I dont wont more government...I want the private sector to have a chance improve our dwindling wild life and fish habitat.....You will find that everybody that thinks different than you John is not bad....Common sense tells us right in front of our eyes our resources are dwindling~~~maybe if we stop doing the same old thing the same old way we might have an chance at improvement