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Originally Posted by RavYak
After thinking about it more I bet a 50 cm size minimum(no slot) province wide would also be effective.
The problem with the previous 50 cm size was that not enough fish were getting big. But the reasons for that were 2 fold.
A) It was being used on lakes that were open to retention while other lakes were C&R or tags. This leads to uneven fishing pressure.
Even 1 fish limits will create uneven fishing pressure
B) The limit was usually 3 which was too high on some if not most of these lakes.
Yes and if we had shorter testing intervals that would have been caught and had the option of going to 1 fish earlier which might have helped correct before having to close the fishing(o limit).
If they set a province wide 1 over 50 cm limit then some lakes that see tons of pressure would still not grow many big fish(like say Pigeon) but that wouldn't really change things that much as even with the tag system there are very few fish over 55 cm...
Lakes that see less pressure would still produce bigger fish(Slave Lake being an obvious example that continues to produce fish even with a 43 cm limit).
Then if necessary to control populations of small fish on certain lakes that are being overrun they could use a tag system for those small fish. Say tags for 40-50 cm and set the tag numbers a bit low so it doesn't require yearly monitoring but still helps to reduce the number of small fish allowing the rest to grow faster and bigger.
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Still think better monitoring intervals would help no matter what type of limit or regs in place. While it is true may not get the money for it. Definitely harder to get if we dont ask for it. It is also true that some if not most of the waters that were shut down and are currently being shut down probably would not have been or would have been delayed at least if intervals were shorter.
Just want to add that there are only so many fish to go round no matter what the size/limit. You can not change that.
Seeings how I can not get you guys to see the benefits of more testing/money. I will leave it to you guys.
You guys wouldnt be Doctors or engineers if you were not smart. You have my respect for that.
But I am now out of this.