Inaccessible lakes in its mountainous regions
So what's the survival rate for the anglers they presumably have to restock using the same method?
Authorities in the US state of Utah have released video of an extreme method they have devised to stock inaccessible lakes in its mountainous regions: a specially adapted aircraft that makes it rain fish. The fish airdrops were devised as a method for stocking remote lakes as a challenge for anglers. The fish, young brook …
'Restocking' lakes that cant possibly need restocking seems fucking insane. NZ has many lakes that have been totally fucked by the introduction of alien fish and we really dont know what was lost.
I cannot understand this obsession with angling when you're just really fucking up ecosystems and torturing animals that are hungry.
And irony overflow in the comments about goldfish & why they are a bad thing " they can grow to considerable size, compete with native species for resources"
The air dropped trout thing seems a bad idea as they will definitely disrupt the ecosystem to some extent.
"So what's the survival rate for the anglers they presumably have to restock using the same method?"
It did cross my mind to wonder what is going on that a lake that is so inaccessible needs to be restocked in this way. There can't be all that many anglers hiking for miles through wilderness just for a quiet afternoons fishing.
I'm just trying to imagine the outrage in the press if this was tried anywhere in the UK!
There can't be all that many anglers hiking for miles through wilderness just for a quiet afternoons fishing.
This is the Rockies. I've never hiked to any significant lake or river in the Rockies without encountering several people fishing.
Granddaughter Major and I hiked to Williams Lake in New Mexico a few weeks ago. That's four miles from the trailhead, so an 8-mile walk all around, at ~10000 feet above sea level. And the North American Monsoon is more robust this year than predicted, so there's a good chance of thunderstorms most afternoons. Were there anglers? There certainly were.
Same for the upper Rio Grande, though most of the ones there were at places where you can drive most of the way. But there's a fishing trail that runs several miles alongside the river in the gorge, and most days you'll spot people wandering up and down it with fishing rods.
Personally I've never seen the attraction, but there seem to be plenty who do.
Take a tank full of fish, drop them from the air into a lake where they aren't native, in a way that will be so shocking the 5% will die, just so 'anglers' can trek up into the hills to catch them. Doesn't sound really ethical?
Perhaps just keep them in a tank and invite fishermen to come and hit them with clubs?
The thing about angling is its convincing yourself that getting a fish to eat and so hook itself is somehow clever and makes you a big man. When in reality the angling equipment industry got you to take the bait.
I remember having a chat with a mate who was a member of a fishing lake consortium and asked him why he wasn't fishing - he said they were restocking their lake. They did catch and release and claimed they didnt harm the fish and yet on a lake that size you could take around 2 tons of carp a year without any feed and they used a small fortune in ground bait and still had to restock!
"since a combined load of fish and water would weigh hundreds of kilos."
Just WTF is hundreds of kilos? This really should be described in terms of aerial fish dumps, this obviously being one aerial fish dump. For the really keen angler we would have kilo and mega aerial fish dumps, etc.
... if the trout are not native to the lakes and can't even breed there, then what's the point of this at all? Find fish that *are* native to the lake and replenish those if there is a reason to, e.g. they have become endangered by all the trout being stuffed in their habitat.
As for goldfish, they're basically carp. They've probably lost some evolutionary edge by being bright orange and bred for captivity, but if people keep releasing them into lakes then of course they're going to establish themselves. Probably easier to clear out than some invasive species though.
As for goldfish, they're basically carp. They've probably lost some evolutionary edge by being bright orange and bred for captivity, but if people keep releasing them into lakes then of course they're going to establish themselves. Probably easier to clear out than some invasive species though.
My only question: Are they edible?
happened in northern Tanami Desert around 1975. Probably when thunderstorm willywilly sucked up a school of perch from creek or pool in Victoria River at end of Dry. Dry creek one evening, sound of big train next morning despite blue sky. Creek meters deep, stocked with small fish. Some of those preWet storms were and are spectacular.
I'm surprised to hear goldfish can get that big, I always thought the size you commonly see was their normal size. How can people keep them in a normal-sized aquarium if they tend to grow that big? Do you throw them into the frying pan beyond a given size and restock with small ones?
Evolution has taught many animals not to get too big. Fish often limit their size to their environment. Keep them in one of the traditional fish bowls and they'll get to maybe 4" and that'll be about it. After 5 years of being 4" and going round in circles drop them in a large pond and they'll get pretty large. I've seen one that looked about 30lb though it may have been a cross breed with a 'normal' carp,
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