What western provinces are there closures with no sturgeon fishing. In BC people fish for sturgeon. You actually need a special license to fish for them on the Fraser. If you hook one on the Columbia river though you're supposed to cut the line as soon as you know or think its a sturgeon and the regs specify you aren't allowed to target them. I don't think that is specified in Alberta. Also certain sport anglers are actually certified to tag and measure sturgeon for research. Walleye are closed across the province in many lakes but way more of them are caught then sturgeon every day. Might as well stop fishing for them too.
Once you start on this path we are headed toward the extinction of sport fishing.
Seek not to limit opportunity but to expand.
It's happening. Last year in the lower mainland of BC four fishing lakes were closed to fishing Permanently due to the presence of the Endangered Painted Turtle. We are easily displaced. Don't help the environmentalists remove us from the variables.
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