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Originally Posted by Jayhad
I agree with your thoughts on this, however there hasn't been a jurisdiction in North America that has chosen the resource over the guides. I as well have guided, and I saw this happen in BC in the late 80s to early 90.
If history has taught us anything, changes will be made, the general public and resource will pay the bill and shops and outfitters will be better off. For example the classified waters system in BC was set up in the guise of protecting the resource, how does paying guides to fish help the resource?
I personally have been seeing the largest trout I've seen in 20 years, I have had slow fishing and I feel there are less but the trout caught are larger. I wonder if there is an observable change in biomass.
I also question the biologists, I don't put much faith in the government employed biologists. The last straw for me was when SRD changed regulations to open Burnt Timber on April 1st. The reason was due to 3 students on a 2 day electro-fishing float trip finding zero, zero cutthroat trout or bull trout. That's impossible.
Why is there no questioning of the destruction of the riparian environment bankside caused by the government canalising the Bow from bearspaw down, for flood mitigation? Anyone else notice the massive fall off of bugs since this?
I'm not saying the Bow cannot be made better, however anglers aren't the issue in this case, that said limiting our usage is always a positive.
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This is an excellent point.
The reality of the situation is that the primary causes of ecological decline of the natural river system, are due to earthworks projects that reduce biodiversity.
IMO it's much like our Salmon populations.
Their decline is directly tied to reduced spawning grounds available in rivers and creeks, which is largely due to siltation, caused by increased erosion, due to logging near watersheds.
Not to mention the fact that every single river system has been dammed up. Duh.
The Bow is similar imo, it has had much of its wetlands areas that used to line the banks removed in favour of various developments.
Not only does that reduce insect biomass, but also water quality.
The real kicker is that these wetlands used to mitigate flooding. Now our man-made storm systems designed to pick up the slack of the missing wetlands, are regularly filled by siltation during flooding, and need to be regularly cleaned out.
This means more tax dollars, a worse flood mitigation system, and reduced biodiversity.
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