RE: Distured at trout run
2007/10/25 12:56:29
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We aren't ever happy. One group wants to close the tribs to fishermen under low conditions, another wants to close them to the fish. I haven't seen the dead fish, but how about calling for them to be cleaned out, rather than shut out. I believe that when the conditions are right, they are let upstream to "breed". If it does occur, then closing the stream off would obviously end that. Would you limit the numbers? Survival of the fittest would be altered to survival of the dumbest. The fish that come in first aren't necessarily the strongest, healthiest fish, just earlier.
As I said, calling for the mess to be cleaned up could be the answer. That's something the PSA may be able to accomplish, with the right word from the Fish Comm.