One thing that I found funny, was that when I went down to see Andy in
FL, he said that you cannot collect in the Everglades (That makes sense
to me, it is a national park). He asked once, and they said no nets,
seines, etc... However, you can legally angle for fish. Now this is
what doesn't make sense to me....You cant drag a net 4 or 5 feet through
the water to catch a fish, but every spot that can be fished from
(bridges, roadside sloughs, etc) have trees that are adorned with miles
of monofilament line, a variety of bobbers, tons of Styrofoam "earthworm
bait" containers floating in the water and stuck along the shore, and a
menagerie of other garbage. Now to boot, they don't even allow you to
take introduced, non-native species. Every place you look is nothing but
Mayan cichlids (C. uropthalmus) thousands of them. We stopped at places
and saw NO native fishes, only cichlids. But again, remember this is a
national park, you cant take them, your only allowed to decorate the
trees with your garbage. OH I just figured it out...they make money off
of fishing licenses, not collecting permits. When was the last time you
saw a seine or a dip net in the tree?
Just my note on rules/regs that don't make logical sense,
Rick Rego
MA/New England NANFA
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:05:13 -0700 "R. W. Wolff" <choupiqu_at_wctc.net>
writes:
> This also bothers me. If you can't touch any mussels in Michigan
> (state)
> because of zebra mussels, thats going to far. Anyone can tell a
> zebra
> mussel from our native freshwater clams. I know of no species that
> attaches
> to hard surfaces, and only one with stripes, and these are bright
> aqua
> colored stipes on a yellow background. This clam also has the
> typical
> shape, rather than the shape the zebra mussels have. Here is
> another folly
> in exotics managment in my opinion. You can not possess white perch
> in
> Wisconsin because they are introduced to Lake Michigan. Why not
> instead
> have a no bag limit, no size limit on them, but they must be
> transported on
> ice ( dead) . Fishermen could catch tons of them, eat them , there
> by
> removing them econimically from the system. How about replacing
> commercial
> fishing for the impacted yellow perch with white perch? If white
> perch are
> pelagic like white bass, then the yellow perch would not be
> harvested much
> on accident with the white perch. Seems odd to me. I also read the
> gobies
> are used as food fish in their native waters , promote them as food
> fish.
> If over fishing is really so devastating to fish stocks, then it
> would seem
> to me that this would be the best cheapest method to remove these
> species.
> Also, the threat of fisherman introducing them elsewhere, the ones
> who would
> do this illegally now, would do it with my plan as well so I doubt
> there
> would be any difference in that respect. That is the supposed
> reason you
> cannot possess them. I also find it funny that it is alright to (
> they even
> have special stamps and such ) fish salmon that are stocked in the
> great
> lakes etc. Any wonder why people like me hold the system in
> contempt on
> many issues?
>
> Ray
> > This cracks me up. Zebra mussels are said to remove PCB's from
> Lake
> > Michigan. That's good. But in Wisconsin you cannot remove their
> old shells
> > from the beach areas so the deteriorate and put the PCB's right
> back in
> the
> > water. Why don't they clean up the old shells laying on the
> beaches???
> > Seems like a no brainer to me. Remove the shells and help remove
> the
> PCB's.
> >
> > Ty
> >
>
>
>
>
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