silverfox wrote:
jifigz wrote:
So, to directly reference my first post, if browns are already established and clearly control the waters, why would you care if rainbows started to occupy some of the space the other invasive species already controls? I said as long as rainbows don't push out brookies in their streams.
I am all for limiting and stoping invasive species where possible.
jifigz wrote:
I am all for limiting and stoping invasive species where possible.
So why promote increasing the presence of another non-native species?
Compounding a problem doesn't seem like a sound argument to me.
Of course, I'm an extremist. I'd rather a river be native, even if that means there are no trout than it be artificially maintained as a non-native trout fishery. You mentioned brook trout never "coming back" to Penns. You do know that they are in Penns and have been forever right? I don't know for certain whether they're residents or if they only use it for migration, but I've caught them in the mainstem.
I'm not trying to push my beliefs on everyone, just pointing out that there are people out there who take a hard line on the non-natives. I'd personally dump the rotenone in the Letort if I could, but I'll fish for the euro fish while they're there. I do find it interesting how accepting PA is of non-native species while states out west take the opposite approach.
Timely point of reference: https://k2radio.com/yellowstone-to-biologists-eliminate-non-native-brook-rainbow-trout-in-gibbon-river/
