05-10-2007, 03:00 PM
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way would they have to rais the chub? they took 10 to 12 tons out of one lake to throw in a land fill.. why not put them to use.. take some of the pressure off the kokanee and trout if only for a short time.. i would think 10 ton's of food would not hurt fg much.. or they could have taken them to powell and feed the stripers.[/reply]
Well, I guess if the money were available they could do it...but it wouldn't really help anything. It is a quick fix to a major problem...you throw all those chubs in either Powell or the Gorge and all you do is give the stripers or lakers a meal for a short time period...the problem of too few prey still exists in the long run.
Also, you have to remember that any fishery has only so much biomass available. IF you dump tons of chubs in the lake, you are removing room for rainbows and kokanee...you will lose these fish to competition, so, in the long run, all you are doing is replacing game fish with nongame fish and you would only hurt the fishermen who want to catch kokes and bows!
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way would they have to rais the chub? they took 10 to 12 tons out of one lake to throw in a land fill.. why not put them to use.. take some of the pressure off the kokanee and trout if only for a short time.. i would think 10 ton's of food would not hurt fg much.. or they could have taken them to powell and feed the stripers.[/reply]
Well, I guess if the money were available they could do it...but it wouldn't really help anything. It is a quick fix to a major problem...you throw all those chubs in either Powell or the Gorge and all you do is give the stripers or lakers a meal for a short time period...the problem of too few prey still exists in the long run.
Also, you have to remember that any fishery has only so much biomass available. IF you dump tons of chubs in the lake, you are removing room for rainbows and kokanee...you will lose these fish to competition, so, in the long run, all you are doing is replacing game fish with nongame fish and you would only hurt the fishermen who want to catch kokes and bows!
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