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Originally Posted by chuck0039
When prohibition was around everything went underground. I fear the same will happen if they force C & R only on these lakes. People will just keep anyways, they will need to hire a lot more enforcement to ensure this does not happen.
It will be nice to see more enforcement but sad to see lakes on C & R instead of keeping the Class "B" & "C" tags and getting rid of the Class "A" tags.
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One of the reasons they are moving to more C&R and closing down lakes, in their logic anyways, is so they can eliminate more enforcement and surveillance altogether and not have to spend time or money doing future Lake surveys. The Provincial NDP are too busy spending billions on infrastructure and other “important things” to break a chunk off for proper fisheries management. In a world today of Governments catering to special interest groups for votes recreational fisherman are way down the list of importance and numbers. There’s not enough of us to really to move the needle on votes, yet they would have us believe there is 300 fisherman on every lake every weekend. They would rather spend nothing, close them down, eliminate retention, eliminate enforcement, sell the public tags in the handful of lakes they may or may not continue to stock with Walleye and sit back and collect the money while they play around with stocking Trout in single species Ponds and Pothole lakes. Having to manage Walleye, Pike, Whitefish, Burbs and Perch all at the same time in any given waterbody is way to taxing, ineffective and costly they believe so it’s just easier to say nobody can have any.