Quote Originally Posted by Team M&M View Post
Louisiana is the only gulf state that has not regulated the Triple Tail
The Triple Tail is a short lived fish and only lives about 6 years(Crappie can live double that)
Tagged Triple Tails in Louisiana were caught 2 1/2 times more often than any other game fish. This establishes that they are more vulnerable to overfishing.
No in depth studies have been conducted by Louisiana but other gulf states have studies that our Biologists have looked at
Boat Captains in Calcasieu and Borgne Lake have been targeting Triple Tail more often in the last few years than they ever have before. This is due to the fish's growing popularity among anglers and several cooking shows detailing the wonderful mildness of the meat.

If there is no regulation then we may wake up one day and realize that we have devastated our population of this awesome fish. Mankind has shown in the past their destructive behavior when it comes to animals and limiting themselves. Most of us are decent anglers and only take what we can eat, but without regulations we know there are those that will exploit an animal till it no longer exists. History is rife with over-hunting to extinction:
Dodo Bird
Passenger Pigeon
Flying Fox
and many others

And we almost wiped out many other species including:
Buffalo
Muskox
American Crocodile, hunted so fiercely that in 1970 only a few hundred were left.

I happen to support and trust our LDWF because I know they are just protecting animals so that our future generations will have something to Hunt and fish. I know many wildlife agents that love to hunt and fish as much as we do and they got into that profession because of their love of the outdoors. I think the 5 per person limit is not too bad. At 18 inches minimum then 5 big ones is more than enough to go home and feed the family a couple of meals. If 5 ain't enough then catch some redfish, trout, or flounder to go with it. If you take your son, daughter or wife fishing then you can keep 10!!




Prowler I have bitten my tongue so many times wanting to call out the author of that letter on the other site, and its hard to keep doing so. The main one pushing this is a physicist, and has not one bit of wildlife management background behind him. Anyone can read a few publications on a subject and suddenly become an expert, but if you do not know the very basics then you can't really be an expert.
LDWF may not be the very best at keeping everyone happy, but they are the best at what they do (wildlife management). When you have a physics question or physics problem, you consult with a physicist, when you have a wildlife question or problem, you consult with the professionals in that field and LDWF has plenty of them.