Not all Grass Carp hit the news

[garfisher]

(08-17-2017 07:12 AM)gthnk Wrote:  In the meantime, I suspect the MNR will keep wasting money restocking browns and rainbows which do not seem capable of any kind of equilibrium and should be allowed to die off, and continue to ignore populations of fish that were native but have been mass culled as "garbage fish" or "Invasive species" in the past, like gar.

I do agree with getting away from stocking Browns and Rainbows, however a lot of people fish for them and in some cases it helps take pressure off of natural systems (aka Rainbow stocking in Haliburton to ease pressure off of Brook Trout). You could never stop stocking them (along with Chinooks and Cohos) without all the charter boat captains creating quite the stink, even if the lakes may be changing to a point where they have changed and the fish can't sustain themselves much longer.

And as far as I know Gar are doing pretty well everywhere they're found (since very few target them), don't really think the MNRF should really do anything in terms of Gar work unless it's Spotted Gar