We Are Screwed.........

[Capt Sal]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

I will NEVER, in my life, no matter how hard I try, and how long I study and think about the issue, be able to understand ANY wildlife management system that espouses harvesting ONLY the breeding females, and not the far more numerous and smaller males... Thats a viable system of course, when you are trying to REDUCE the numbers of a species!!!!.. Why can't these blockheads understand that???.. WHAT are they thinking???..

Yeah, lets let anglers take the larger breeding females only.. makes perfect sense.

Unless it is deer! Kill the females to reduce the population???

[bulletbob]

Originally Posted by Capt Sal

Unless it is deer! Kill the females to reduce the population???

Right,, up here in NY, deer populations go from high to insanely high... When it gets to the point that deer populations explode, and people get tired of ruining their cars by hitting them, Albany encourages hunters by greatly increasing the harvest of does to REDUCE the population.. Yet fisheries ""managers"" think killing the 18 + inch potentially breeding females is the way to increase the population... Yeah, makes sense to me...

[mikdel]

Originally Posted by bulletbob

Right,, up here in NY, deer populations go from high to insanely high... When it gets to the point that deer populations explode, and people get tired of ruining their cars by hitting them, Albany encourages hunters by greatly increasing the harvest of does to REDUCE the population.. Yet fisheries ""managers"" think killing the 18 + inch potentially breeding females is the way to increase the population... Yeah, makes sense to me...

Deer and many animals are tired of humans building highways and structures through their homes. If they could only shoot back. With climate change we all might be here a shorter time.

[Rocky]

See I told you so!