SaltyCajun.com lake Area Marine

Notices

Go Back   SaltyCajun.com > General Discussion Forums > Stories, History, and Tributes

Stories, History, and Tributes Got a story to tell about your childhood, someone you admired, or some interesting history to share? This is the place!

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old 03-25-2014, 09:32 AM
Duck Butter's Avatar
Duck Butter Duck Butter is offline
Ling
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: South Central La
Posts: 3,903
Cash: 3,167
Default Percy Viosca Man ahead of his time

He was ridiculed for thinking like this but almost 90 years ago, there was someone who was actually against the levees

The following quotes are taken from a paper that Viosca presented at a national meeting in Hartford, CT on August 8, 1927,* four months after the Mississippi flood that devastated south Louisiana and inspired John Barry’s well-known book Rising Tide
…Thus man, by harnessing our rivers, has created new conditions of existence in the formerly wet areas, this resulting in a decided decline of the aquatic natural resources. Several million acres formerly suitable for fish and other aquatic wild species have been made unfit for such creatures, yet are serving no other useful purpose…(and) they are subject to the ever present menace of disastrous floods…
…It is chiefly as a result of the building of levees, and not as a result of shooting and trapping, that our aquatic birds and mammals have suffered…Just as our aquatic birds and mammals have suffered by our present and past means of flood prevention, reclamation and drainage projects, so have our fisheries, both marine and freshwater.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 03-25-2014, 09:38 AM
Duck Butter's Avatar
Duck Butter Duck Butter is offline
Ling
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: South Central La
Posts: 3,903
Cash: 3,167
Default

He also has some fisheries management 'truths' that are still studied for over 80 years:

1. any resource not utilized is lost

2. productivity of a stock whould be measured as what can be removed

3. too many restrictions cause overpopulations

4. stockpiling balanced populations is futile

5. ecological conditions are more important than fecundity

6. freshwater reintroduction results in true stock increases

7. "limiting nutrients" determine population over management technique

8. populations become balanced within a given system
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 03-25-2014, 12:26 PM
MathGeek's Avatar
MathGeek MathGeek is offline
King Mackeral
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Posts: 2,931
Cash: 4,452
Default

You got a citable source fo dat widom?
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 03-26-2014, 08:25 AM
Duck Butter's Avatar
Duck Butter Duck Butter is offline
Ling
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: South Central La
Posts: 3,903
Cash: 3,167
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by MathGeek View Post
You got a citable source fo dat widom?
Its in the book Rising Tide, but also BTNEP has a calendar for 2014 they just put out and he is mentioned there as well.

I am looking for this other publication that was put out by a bunch of Louisiana naturalists and it talks about Louis Jacques Judice who talks about his adventures down Bayou Lafourche in the late 1700s. He was commissioned by the Spanish governor when La was part of Spain, to explore the "Lafourche des Chetimaches district" and determine if it was suitable for settling.
This is the quote I have from the calendar for Judice when he expolored Bayou Lafourche area:

"The natural levees were small grasslands or prairies one or two arpents wide occupied by turkey, deer, wolves, prairie chicken, bison, cougar, and the Carolina Parakeet. Along the bayou were plentiful feathered game of all varieties including ducks, wood ducks, mergansers, teal, white and grey ibises, and cormorants in great numbers"

I will post the rest when I track it down. Good stuff - bison, cougar, wolves, prairie chickens, all down in Lafrourche
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 03-26-2014, 12:37 PM
Duck Butter's Avatar
Duck Butter Duck Butter is offline
Ling
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: South Central La
Posts: 3,903
Cash: 3,167
Default Excellent read

Here it is, the Louis Jacques Judice paper. Pretty good stuff about the Bayou Lafourche area in the 1700s.
Attached Files
File Type: pdf 2004 La history tcm (1).PDF (358.3 KB, 119 views)
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 04-15-2014, 11:30 AM
Garfish's Avatar
Garfish Garfish is offline
Red Snapper
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Cypress,TX
Posts: 1,760
Cash: 2,040
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Duck Butter View Post
Here it is, the Louis Jacques Judice paper. Pretty good stuff about the Bayou Lafourche area in the 1700s.
Wow! Great read!!
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 03-02-2015, 12:18 AM
yagatov yagatov is offline
Sand Trout
 
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: S. Louisiana on a bayou.
Posts: 1
Cash: 452
Default

Percy Viosca:
Is Viosca Knoll named for him? This is a block in the
Mexican Gulf due east of Venice Louisiana.
I worked offshore there VK786 for a while.
They called the field Petronius after some Roman poet during the reign of Nero as I recall....
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 03-02-2015, 06:38 PM
Duck Butter's Avatar
Duck Butter Duck Butter is offline
Ling
 
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: South Central La
Posts: 3,903
Cash: 3,167
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by yagatov View Post
Percy Viosca:
Is Viosca Knoll named for him? This is a block in the
Mexican Gulf due east of Venice Louisiana.
I worked offshore there VK786 for a while.
They called the field Petronius after some Roman poet during the reign of Nero as I recall....
Probably so
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 01:53 PM.



Powered by vBulletin®
Copyright ©2000 - [ARG:3 UNDEFINED], Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
vB.Sponsors
vBCredits v1.4 Copyright ©2007 - 2008, PixelFX Studios
SaltyCajun.com logo provided by Bryce Risher

All content, images, designs, and logos are Copyright © 2009-2012,
Salty Cajun, LLC
No unathorized use is permitted
Geo Visitors Map