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Originally Posted by T-TOP
Shouldn't the increased dredging and what they pln to do with the spoils be in the top 2? Not long ago the army corp planned on running a discharge pipe 500yards out in to the lake and letting fly right there. Another option was filling in Joes cove. Is the corp really going to rock off the south end of the lake?
2. oysters
3. weirs,
4. or 5. limits and pogey plants
open up with complaints about limit control the whole purpose of the meeting runs off in the ditch and you look like you are more concerned about what you take home than the health of the lake.
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It was not my intent to prioritize issues. Each angler has their own priorities in what they see as the most important issues facing the lake. All the issues discussed belong in the top 5.
Basing limits in sound science is an important conservation issue and only those ignorant of how food webs work would portray a call for scientific management as a selfish concern for how many fish an angler gets to take home. There are far fewer natural predators of specks, reds, gafftops, and drum than there used to be. In the absence of sufficient fishing harvest, each of these species has the potential to become overpopulated which would overly stress food supplies and lead to an unbalanced ecosystem.
If you disagree and think channel dredging and spoils are the most important issue, you should try and make a well-informed case that perhaps the ship channel should be rocked to prevent ongoing erosion and the spoil used to build up a land barrier between the channel and lake. To me, all the issues are important, and I have not seen enough data to definitively rank order them. However, CCA and LDWF both need regular feedback regarding establishing new limits without a sound scientific basis. Otherwise, we can expect this bad behavior to continue.