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Originally Posted by RavYak
Number of fish stocked has to be determined based on a lakes capacity. If it has a reduced forage base then you have to take that into account and stock less fish in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem. Simply put you cannot blame the lake and not the people that stocked it. They should have stocked fewer fish and spread it out over a longer period of time making sure the lake was staying in a healthy state with forage base remaining intact and fish growing at a reasonable rate.
This is far from the only time this has happened here in AB, look no farther then Wabamun for a recent example. The lakes forage base was already taxed due to a large pike population and they decided to dump 11 million walleye in. It destroyed the remaining forage base, stunting the walleye and killing off a large portion of the pike population.
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You dont stock lightly especially if you are starting out a new fishery or have a crashed fishery. You stock pretty heavy with hopes that they "take" and in good numbers. When they do people get ticked off, but then again, when it fails to "take" they get ticked off too.
Cant win.
On the other hand it doesnt hurt to discuss it.