Walleye limits
Great Lakes Fishery Commission leaves fish limits for Lake Erie unchanged
Published: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 12:28 AM Updated: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 3:31 AM
By D'Arcy Egan, The Plain Dealer The Plain Dealer
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For months, Ohio's fisheries experts have warned of possible cuts to Ohio's Lake Erie sport fishing bag limits for walleye and yellow perch in 2012.
At Friday's meeting of the Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission in Windsor, Ontario, the population numbers were crunched and no changes were made.
Ohio's daily walleye bag limit will continue to be four per day during the spring season that ends April 30, and six walleye the rest of the year.
The yellow perch daily limit will remain at 30 fish per day all year, although the perch population is down.
Lake Erie supervisor Roger Knight said the lakewide walleye population increased to about 25 million fish, up from last year's 21.2 million. Knight said extremely bad weather hampered the 2011 spawning season, but also triggered a low sport harvest. The walleye catch last year was about 28 percent of the allocated 1.5 million.
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