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Management and use of Albertas Fisheries

Admin, Thank you for posting with a sticky.

Confirms what many of us have been saying about Alberta Fisheries.

Worth reading.

And as said, not all will agree. Some still will not agree with it.

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Slot limits are popular with anglers because they seem to offer great promise; let anglers harvest small fish and simultaneously create quality fisheries for protected big fish. This can work in jurisdictions with warmer water and fast-growing fish, but with Alberta’s combination of naturally low productivity and increasingly high angler pressure, slot limits don’t succeed. Overharvest is inevitable, fisheries decline and anglers lose opportunities.

Fortunately, there is a proven solution; keep harvests at sustainable levels with simple minimum size limits. Minimum size limits protect fish to grow to adult sizes and let them spawn a few times. Once they’ve made their contribution to the sustainability of the fishery, they then can be harvested. Anglers get opportunities to catch and release fish, and have the chance to take home a larger fish, if luck is on their side.

While this practice does not satisfy everyone, minimum size limits are simple, work very well for Alberta’s biological situation and have good compliance by most anglers. Using minimum size limits, many of Alberta’s walleye and pike fisheries have recovered from being poor quality, collapsed fisheries to now becoming some of the best sport fisheries in Canada. This success has created new opportunities for anglers to go to local lakes and experience wonderful catches of fish that even our grandparents would have seldom experienced.

Whoever wrote this part doesn't understand slot limits... In specific that a slot limit includes a minimum size limit which as stated already works... Slot limits would work just as most of us know they would, we would have healthy populations just like we do now but with more bigger fish.

I like that they are posting more information like this but obviously they need to think and proof read some of these articles a bit more...

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Originally Posted by RavYak (Post 3587520)

Some on here sure think they are fisheries experts but then have some of the most atrocious fish handling skills ever seen.

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Originally Posted by JohninAB (Post 3587525)

Some on here sure think they are fisheries experts but then have some of the most atrocious fish handling skills ever seen.

Hahaha free speech on the forum is welcome and I don't disagree! But I do think the article is properly "dumbed down" for common folk to understand. Worth a read for sure!

Hey all, posted this on the goofy Calling Lake thread but it is better posted here. A great article / essay in my opinion.

https://donmeredith.wordpress.com/20...s-fish-crisis/

The only thing I can add is agreement to the article. I live on a farm as the 5th generation dating back to the 1800s. Hearing even the last 2 generations speak about the creek land we live on and how fish disappeared and now the water...now that speaks to me. I see it with my own eyes everyday. The land has changed and thus the fish with it.

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Originally Posted by RavYak (Post 3587520)