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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
Aerated quality fisheries are highly sought after. They are also critical for taking pressure off wild fisheries.
Wild fisheries are suffering. I used to be a fisheries biologist and am an avid angler. I can say with certainty, fish stocks are down, angling pressure is way up.
Aeration costs do and should come out of licensing fees. Licensing fees should go the resource and not general revenue.
Police should remain areated and if you have to make a regulation that it is forbidden and illegal to go on the ice...then sombe it.
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If we take a short-sighted perspective, then I will agree that stocked Put and Take fisheries may take pressure off wild trout populations, albeit likely in areas where wild trout would not be in the first place, like man made reservoirs.
I see no reason to believe aerating Put and Take fisheries helps wild trout populations recover in the long-term.