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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.
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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...