Quote:
Originally Posted by -JR-
Sounds like you don't know how much I put into this lake over 40 years .
Most of the bio where not even born when i started fishing this lake .
And the way they came up with the size ,was by having a vote with the public what size they wanted . The only efford they had was deciding the 3 voting sizes . And thats how they said they picked it . If it was not the way why did they make use vote . Lol !
They used to do a survey years ago at the boat dock as fishermen came in .
They could of at least have done that by making people take a survey sheet sheet at the dock and filling it out on the sizes they caught and dropping them off in a box .
|
Fishing the lake and managing the resource are not the same thing.
The vote was a way to get angler's input, not to decide the slot size.
When considering the amount of pressure Cold Lake sees, allowing fish to spawn at least once before harvesting ensures that there will be future generations of fish.
If there wasn't as much pressure, the slot size could have been lowered knowing that enough fish would make it through the slot to keep the population going. Unfortunately with Cold Lake, that is not as likely and risking a total annihilation of middle-aged fish was not something anybody wanted to gamble on.
Rest assured, the data from those angler surveys that were done was used in these decisions.
A reassessment will be done within the next 5 years.
I can tell you assume everyone involved was just throwing darts at the wall, but I can assure you, you are dead wrong.