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Originally Posted by Sundancefisher
There is no need to kill and remove any fish species unless in a study area.
Quirk Creek is removing brook trout to protect native cutts and bulls.
Removing suckers and mountain whitefish does nothing to benefit the health of a stream. For years...even the mentality in F&W was to remove "undesireable" fish such as mountain whitefish. However as time passes we in the fishing interest group realized that the whitefish fry and young of the year are an important food for larger bulls, cutts and rainbows.
The same applies to suckers. Nature actually staggers spawning so that the predators have a great food source to grow on.
In lakes...sucker fry feed the next crop of pike and walleye.
In rivers...whitefish and sucker fry also benefit the predators.
I never kill fish needlessly unless I am eating them.
Cheers
Sun
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Sorry this will be my last post.
Sun thats the most 2 faced post yet.
Why are you removing Perch?
It cant be a study case...because your following statments suggest you already know it all. Or are YOUR perch the exception, you do say......."There is no need to kill and remove any fish species unless in a study area."......then you go onto say....."Nature actually staggers spawning so that the predators have a great food source to grow on." So leave nature to control YOUR PERCH, there is no need to study this as your expert comment already has told you what will happen.
Now im done.....Sun as always the last word is YOURS