I am fine for protecting populations and changing regs over time but all of this work seems to be taking place from Central Alberta north. The Southern reservoirs (which are full of pike and walleye) are subject to a blanket zero retention. As such, I have to agree with the previous comment - head to Saskatchewan if you want to eat a fish. Can't F&W try some more innovative ideas between 3 over 63 and zero. How about rotating reservoirs with a limit of 1 in the specified reservoir and the others zero retention or issuing 10 tags with each license to be used on specified reservoirs at a rate of 1 per week. Try opening for retention of 1 fish 2 days per month. I find it amazing that on a body like Crawling Valley where the catch rate is about 1 per 10 minutes or less that there is absolutely no available harvest. And last year they dropped the number of class A tags for Newell in half. Sorry for the rant but its back to Tobin again.
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