And still no reply from wind drift, and still NO REPLY from the Policy Makers at SRD or whatever you call yourself these days!
You will brush this off and ignore the public opinion on the future walleye conservation regulations that can be imposed on non regulated users, while failing to do something that would even benefit the first nations and metis netters.
This is what I hate about the leadership of this department. You are a bunch of sheep who refuse to do the hard thing, that even you know is needed to be done.
You know that every spawning female replaces herself at least 5 - 20 times when she spawns. Yes some years the hatch is poor, and some years its incredible. Not so when the fish is killed before spawning in some non regulated net!
No non regulated group ever challenged the conservation closure on Lac La Biche for what is expected to be the major spawning river. Why do you think they would do any different for an April 1 May 15 netting closure?
Do your consultation and publish the responses. Do Town Hall meetings on a Friday evening at 6 PM like you have done in the past in Lac La Biche! See what the non regulated consultation response is. Maybe they will even support this!
Drewski
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