Ralph recently seeded a thread:

"The Future of the Management of Recreational Angling" in which he
posted:
The world of angling management is moving well beyond simple notions of
harvest; catch and release and so forth.

Eric Poole, who is an angler and author of some repute, is an economist and
statistician by profession and currently a PHD candidate in Economics at
Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. His thesis is about developing
best practice management techniques for fishing (both commercial and
recreational) and I think some of his ideas will shake the angling world in
a few years. In some respects they have a sympathetic resonance with some of
the Halfordian Golfer's "naive" ideas but are much more sophisitcated.

For example, on some of the local web based discussion boards Eric has
talked about "quality" issues and has a strong opinion that the only way to
address these on certain waters is by limited entry (i.e. by lottery or by
access by payment)

He has also addressed bugbear talked about on ng, tackle restriction and
when if at all is it right to restrict tackle. He has developed a
mathematically based model to justify doing so. Have a look at this:

http://www.sfu.ca/~epoole/BPAM_E_Poole_Jun06.pdf

His web site: http://www.sfu.ca/~epoole

watch this site for additional work on his thesis

I would like to ask Mr. Poole a couple of questions to help fully
understand BPAM.

1) What specifically would you do in Colorado to begin this
methodology?
and
2) Have you ever considered mandatory kill-then-quit regulations?

Thanks very, very much. I'm looking forward to a great discussion.

Sincerely,

Halfordian Golfer
A cash flow runs through it.