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Originally Posted by troutmountain

The regulations is the wrong thing to be concerned about if a guy keeps a walleye here or there. The problem in alberta is too many people for the number of lakes and too intensive use of the landscape. Lake isle for instance is not because of over fishing it's because of nutrient loading, The bath at alberta beach didn't happen as planned because the lake finally said enough is enough. Watershed management should be more of a focus than micro managing water bodies as to how many walleye or goldeye u can keep. The best example of this is the battle river---used to be plentiful with big goldeye and walleye and now it's a slow moving slough that's DEAD. No water flow--spring fed and pollution--no riparian zones along the river, nutrient loading, irrigation?? run-off chemicals and manure. I fished the red deer river from content bridge to drum last year and was shocked to see cattle still headed down to the river to erode the banks etc. and lots of stretches with no riparian zones. Take a look at the big picture. Another great example is the Beaverlodge River which used to have great graylibg runs, which is down to nothing. Fish can't flourish in pollution. If the waterbody/watershed is healthy it will produce lots of and big fish. The regulations are always playing catch up on what is actually happening. They tell u where to go fishing. One lake has a limit of 3 and one has a limit of one and u want quantity that u will go to the lake with the bigger limit. The regulations for the whole province should be on a one piece of paper. Theres no money for fish management in this province so it's a game of catch up. A lake is collapsing than we better go do a quick creel survey and figure out whats going on and than raise the limit to protect the fish. STOP THE MICRO MANAGING AND START MANAGING INDUSTRY AND THE WATERSHED!! Take a look at mike sullivan's slide show THE LAST GOLDEYE heres the link:
http://www.laclanonnewatershed.com/d...%20Goldeye.pdf
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Very well said, Ive never looked at it that way, but now that you mention it, I notice lots of cattle along the red deer river trashing the shore line.