Stewardship License Program Discontinued
The official announcement came out today, they are shutting down the Stewardship License Program. I'm more than a little disappointed but based on the data presented at the information session last week there was nothing indicating the brook trout removal was facilitating recovery of the other species.
I'm curious what some of the other participants think about this turn of events. Quote:
http://files.ctctcdn.com/c37eef03101...7ff8e36816.pdf |
I saw that email. I am a bit disapointed because it was great fun to take part in the program and was looking forward to another year of hunting brookies. Saying that, they have a point about the question of effectiveness of the program regarding the recovery of native species -which was one of the main goal.
Maybe it was worth carrying it a bit longer to have data over a longer period , but i'm not a scientist and don't have their precise knowledge to make that decision. Maybe they'll keep monitoring the species count and bring back the stewardship license in a few years? It was fun while it lasted! |
What bothered me about that is that they only used data from Quirk creek and not the rest of the data. I for one have seen a vast improvement on Waiprious creek. I hardly catch any brookies if any at all. If I do they were in the 2 to 3 inch catagory. There are so many cutthroat in there now it is almost to easy. Regardless of the governments decission the best part of the program was the emphasis of spiecies identification and education. Too many times we have been out fishing and people are keeping incorect speicies or don't even know what they are doing. I am saddened by this and was looking forward to letting my sons do this. I will miss the program and the education it provided. I will still do my part to inform others on non native spiecies and ways to identify the trout of Alberta
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