Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland
>From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus-in-hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- How Does Everyone Feel About.....
>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:26:42 -0500
>
>Dean, I suspect that everyone on this list agrees with you. But that's only
>several hundred-in-best... A state agency will respond to widespread,
>continuous political pressure. They probably feel they're responding to the
>greatest interest by stocking exotic salmonids. How many people who buy
>fishing licenses and boat registrations are gung ho to catch bowfin or gar?
>Not enough,-in-least for now(!). It would take the sustained work of a
>group like NANFA to get even one state to change such a bundle of policies.
>Maybe we should... the worst that would happen is that people would think
>we're crazy. But most of us are already riverneckers, so what the hey.
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>along the severely altered Tennessee
>Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
>>From: "Dean A. Markley" <damarkley-in-earthlink.net>
>>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>>Subject: NANFA-L-- How Does Everyone Feel About.....
>>Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:39:32 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>>
>>
>>I hope this is "on topic" so here goes: I have lived in Pennsylvania all
>>my life (47 years, uggh) and for all of that the PA Fish Commissions main
>>focus has been trout fishing and the associated stocking programs. I am
>>told that most of the Fish Commissions budget goes for trout programs. If
>>this is true, it kind of upsets me for a few reasons:
>>
>>1. They stock Brooks, Rainbows, and Browns. Now only Brooks are native
>>to PA so why stock with an invasive species? (yeah yeah, cause people
>>like to catch them).
>>
>>2. With such great fish as smallmouth, largemouth and walleyes, why
>>aren't they propagated and stocked more instead? And yes, I know some is
>>done but I suspect it is insignificant compared to trout.
>>
>>3. I understand that Bowfin and Longnose Gar used to be common in the
>>lower Susquehanna region but now they are rare if not extirpated. I do
>>recall a Bowfin being caught in the Susquehanna a few years back. Why
>>doesn't the Fish Commission raise and stock these interesting fish?
>>
>>Just rambling here so do I have any sort of case?
>>
>>Dean
>>
>>
>>Dean A. Markley
>>3628 Peregrine Circle
>>Mountville, PA 17554
>
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