>From: "Dean A. Markley" <damarkley-in-earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- How Does Everyone Feel About.....
>Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:10:47 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>
>Rob, where can I find additional info regarding the Bowfin stocking you
>mention? In particular when was Lake Marburg stocked?
>
>Dean
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob Criswell <ammocrypta-in-hotmail.com>
>Sent: Mar 23, 2005 9:24 PM
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- How Does Everyone Feel About.....
>
>I'll try to answer some of your questions/concerns. Please don't construe
>my response as a defense of the PA F&B C. I did work for them for 3 years
>many moons ago, but I believe there should be more emphasis on other areas
>as well.
>
>They do not receive general fund (tax) revenues. Most of their funding
>comes from fishing license sales and just about all the rest comes from
>Dingell-Johnson (Sportfish Restoration Act - excise tax on fishing
>tackle,etc.) funds via the US Fish & Wildlife Service. So, you can see why
>the focus is on game fish.
>
>Old accounts indicate that the longnose gar was common (and native) to the
>lower Susquehanna historically; it doesn't appear that the bowfin was all
>that common, and there are differences of opinion as to whether it was
>native there. There's not much interest in gar fishing in PA and many
>still
>regard them as "trash fish". Bowfins have been stocked in-in-least 3 Susq.
>drainage impoundments - Glendale Lake, Cambria Co., Black Moshannon Lake,
>Centre Co., and Lake Marburg, York Co. I don't know what the numbers are
>like these days, but they have been collected fairly recently-in-all three.
>There's not a great deal of angling interest in them either, although I
>know
>of a guy in Crawford County who used to go after them regularly up in the
>French Creek drainage.
>
>The PFBC feels that its unneccessary to stock the basses (which are NOT
>regarded as native to the Susq) on a regular basis because they do so well
>on their own as reproducing populations and can be effectively managed by
>sieasons, sizes, and creel limits. Walleye reproduce in the wild in only a
>few PA drainages, but are stocked in considerable numbers as fry and
>fingerlings around the state (from eggs of stock taken from Pymatuning Lake
>and cultured-in-the Linesville hatchery), - its just too expensive to
>raise
>them to adult size.
>
>And, I don't know what it is about trout, but I'd bet a year's salary (such
>that it is) that the agency isn't gonna change its focus anytime soon!
>
>Rob Criswell
>
>
> >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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>Dean A. Markley
>3628 Peregrine Circle
>Mountville, PA 17554
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