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Originally Posted by lastlatvian
Well said.
I wish we had perch like we did 15-20 years ago in the province and fish mgmt gave them a chance -- Northern Europe has lakes like ours crawling with 2-3 ponders that taste better then a walleye any day. Plus at that size they're not as hard to deal with the bones.
Perch are such a hardy fish they can survive being frozen with almost zero oxygen and low water (perfect for Alberta sloughs). Unfortunately fish mgmt is too short sighted to support this for fisherman who eat what they catch. Instead all they seem to care about is money from sports fisherman who want to catch and release big trout while wearing their felt bottom boots.
Now we have whirling disease across the entire bow river basin because of stupidity and greed.
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Europe's perch are different biologically than ours. That's not to say that management in Alberta shouldn't improve.