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Originally Posted by mstulb
Weirs decrease baitfish and shrimp, which in return harms fish #'s. W.C., Sabine, Trinity, Baffin, Corpus all have free flowing marshes. It blows my mind how you can shut off the migration of shrimp and finfish from the breading habitat with a private weir system ON A PUBLIC LAKE!!!!!!
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Just FYI, the weirs aren't private. There may be private land behind them, but they aren't private.
Those were constructed and managed by the USFWS for over 2 decades. I know the person that wrote the management plan (that was not followed for many years), and he was a FWS employee at the time. The original plan called for the weirs to be managed in a way that maintained the marshes behind the weirs and aallowed for ingress and egress of the nekton so that the life cycles of shrimp, crabs and fish would not be too heavily impacted.