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Subject: Lake Ontario Salmon


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Date Posted: 11:16:09 02/12/02 Tue
 Well, King Davy I don't know if you'll get to read this since my last post to you didn't get on here. I would like to respond to the fact that OH, PA,WI,IN,IL,MI and MN have changed there spending more towards the steelhead fishery because that is what the fishermen want, not what a handful of shop owners and guides want. We have had the pacific salmon program for many years now and quite frankly, I don't see why we should keep it. For the last two years the major run of salmon have stayed at the mouth of the river and very few salmon have gone up the river. If you folks want to pen raise them and have them hang out in the mouths of the rivers that,s fine with me, just make sure that the program isn't heavily leaning towards the pacifics. Stock equal numbers of steelhead. Just once I would like to see the fishery focus as much attention on the steelhead program as it has on the salmon program. How about letting us spend the next several years growing the steelhead fishery. My guess is no way because if the steelhead program got bigger than the salmon program everyone would wonder why we stocked pacifics in the first place. This whole pacific salmon program was just a pet project dreamed up by a few state fishery people. If you fish the area then you must see that changes need to be made. How can you say that the fishery is great the way it is and that you wouldn't change the type of fish we raise. You better read up on what is happening to the west of us because I don't want to be sitting here 5 years from now saying if we had only... If what we have now is what everyone wants to keep in place then we will all be losers in the end. Our fishery is a joke worldwide and everyone knows it. Other states are saying lets not end up with a Pulaski situation. We made all the mistakes for the whole world to learn from, so why not let us fix it. Why have a heavy number of fish and people for 4-5 weeks when the salmon run when we could have steady fishing 8-10 months a year. I'm sure the shops and guides would rather have steady income year round instead of crammed into 4weeks a season. Many bank on that 4 week period and then when it didn't happen two years in a row has got to hurt. So, how about it, lets try it my way for a while and see what happens. It can't get any worse since the fishery is in the dumps already. The DEC doesn't have it down to a science either, they just keep trying different things every year and we have seen what it has produced. It is time we all stopped walking on eggshells about this subject and get down to the job of correcting this fishery.
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Re: Lake Ontario SalmonKing Davy04:43:23 02/13/02 Wed

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