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Originally Posted by Bushrat
On the other hand if we never spent money stocking trout there would be no trout where most people nowadays fish for them. All the pressure would be on wild trout only and there would be few or none left as there were few native wild trout or places to fish them in Alberta to begin with. Stocking trout puts trout in tons of places where people can fish for them taking pressure away from the few natural wild stocks we have left.
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Exactly.
Problem is two fold.
One...put and take fisheries still need to be load levels for harvest such that trout remain in the the lake for the year. It should no longer be about killing a gas tanks worth of fish but the experience and a chance for you and your kids to harvest one or more, enough for a meal and further enjoy the experience. That means rather than 5 trout a day... you make it one per person in high traffic spots like say Mount Lorette Ponds for instance. Supposed to be for handicapped people but the trout get stocked and within 2 weeks they are all gone.
Secondly...Significant poaching needs better policing especially in areas with poor to no cell phone coverage. Fines need to be increased with fees going into the resource.
In cases where there is regular winterkill. Open the harvest up to 5 a day starting Sept 1 then.
In areas with less traffic... drop the limit to 2 instead of 5. Use the stocking budget as needed to bolster high impact areas.