[steelhead]

Sun said....



"Sounds like you want a utopian ideal of tons of fish everywhere...therefore harvest is spread out and people can fish and harvest to there hearts content."



Yes, I do want that. Everyone here wants that. We all have to go to other provinces to get it. Other provinces have that and not just BC. Other provinces have that and spend and collect the money for that and dont just throw the money for that into the one provincial everything wallet. We should have it here, and we can have it here. The regs are fine. Stricter than the utopian provinces. We need enforcement and enhancement spending, and alot of it and we will have the utopia. Tis a shame you dont feel the same way. But thats exactly how the Gov has conditioned us to feel about our fisheries. And we all fall for it.



Hunterdave just discussed GaryF's post. Gary posted the stocking data from bullshead. The lack of stocking saved the Gov alot according to the data. Did those savings pay for more co's? Did it pay for a decade dead walleyes stocking program for many lakes, not just 4 lakes of which 2 are unfishable by public? Did it pay for someone to manage the parks surrounding the lakes and potholes and river accesses? Did it pay to remove perch from infested lakes? Did it pay to get excellent data on our fisheries as opposed to flawed, out of date dribble? Did it pay to stop poachers? Did it pay for public signage, education and public service anouncements? Did it pay to remove beaver dams?

No, it got cut out of this years fish budget, just like it has done for the past 15 years. Its lower again. Lost and gone forever cause our Gov found a way to save. Never to return. We just lost 50,000 fish that could have gone to another place to help. Or, we just lost that CO that GaryF dreamed might materialized with the savings.


Are you seeing what special regs do as a whole? Not just in one or 2 instances of it doing good, but how it hurts as a whole? These regs hurt. Thank GaryF for that great example.


Not interested in responding to your other comments, they are beaten to death and even you dont even know the answers as they are just as much a baseless view and a bunch of "probablies" as mine seem to be. I know this as neither one of us has a crystal ball.




STEELHEAD