Robinson Creek Restoration.

[MuskieBait]

(04-19-2013 01:58 PM)OldTimer Wrote:  

(04-19-2013 01:27 PM)MuskieBait Wrote:  I tend to take the perspective toward actions that benefit all species and no just one species alone, and toward all organisms and not just fish alone.

Here, here!

I however believe that there are some introduced species that need not be here.....salmon being one........ and that true valuable improvement doesnt always mean that angling success increases.

OT

Agree...and that's why I go against the grain from the salmon/trout guys.

According to Michael and his attendance at the MEA meeting, some east tribs' salmon population is sustained by close to 50% natural population. Many east tribs has significant enough natural population of steelhead and brown trout as well. To me, there is no further need to increase stocking in those creeks. We should just nature decide her own course toward the future of those introduced but naturalized species.

The continued focus should be removal of man made obstruction and stream rehab. Access to suitable spawning ground and rearing habitat, and establishing habitat that is protected and clear of pollution can do much, much more than simple stocking effort. Stock effort is just medication to alleviate the symptoms, like cold medicine, but it doesn't get rid of the root cause of the issue. (Cold medicine doesn't kill the cold virus...no drug can kill the virus except for our body's immune system...and usually that takes 24-48 hours for our body to recognize the presence of virus in our body and a week to generate enough antibodies to combat the virus...that's why it take almost a week to get well from a cold. Cold medicine just thins the mucous, soothes the sore throat and reduces the cough.) Similarly, stocking more fish is just to put more fish into a stream that cannot sustain that kind of population with the currently available spawning and rearing habitat...otherwise, self sustained recruitment would be higher.

The only salmon I would support stock effort is the Atlantic Salmon. Man wiped them out by changing the streams with dams, and we wiped them out by pollution the water, and we wiped them out by overfishing. It is OUR DUTY to reestablish them. No if or but. I don't care what the charter captains has to say (their stake in those project is really own their bottom line...the dollar value), or anyone else for that matter. We need to take responsibility.

The same goes for the American Eel. Want to support a cause? Here's your cause. It is a noble cause...unlike the introduced salmon...